Bettie Page is beautiful, but, really, there were about 1,000 other social, political, cultural and governmental reasons by the so-called "sexual revolution" occurred. She was really just a small part of it all. You have to at least give credit to crazy '50s conservatives, Hugh Hefner, the hippies, the counterculture revolution, the Vietnam War, the rising consciousness among youth, rock and roll, changing tastes, morals and habits, changing trends, the underground arts scene, the rise in pop culture, and many, many, many more factors, also.

"by" should be "why" in above post, by the way.

Bettie Page was gorgeous, she had a beautiful voluptuous body and a unique and vivacious quality that can't be matched by the emaciated and dull 'supermodels' of today.

Sadness. she was a goddess, and had the good sense to keep her mysterious nature alive by going in to seclusion in her later years.

I love rockabilly and I am saddened by her death (because I am saddened by all death), but I don't get why some people I know try to get me to have some sort of particular respect for a pinup model. She wouldn't let pictures of herself be shown when she gained weight. Oookie.

I have respect for a woman who was able to tell the dominant paradigm to go eff itself. It must have taken a particularly strong will and character to be an unashamedly sexual woman at a time when women's sexuality was still pretty repressed.

RIP Bettie.

Page starred in a few mainstream movies too, didn't she?

it wasn't just that she gained weight. she had a fairly hefty set of spiritual and emotional problems - she became a strict born-again christian affiliated with the Graham ministries within a couple years of leaving the pinup and fetish business. also, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. but in her prime, she told everyone, even congress, that what she did was non of their damn business. she's a role model for any woman with strong or alternative sexuality.

she did what she wanted…a real feminist….