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-April 22, 1923. 3:00
a.m.
Born in a
Nashville movie theater to 23 year old Edna Mae Pirtle and
27
year old Walter Roy Page, Bettie Mae Page.
-Bettie Page was the second child out of six kids.
-Bettie's
father,Roy, was a constant womanizer ,she never had a good
relationship
with him.
-Edna's(Bettie's Mother) Died when she was only Five years old.
-Walter Roy Page
had served two years in the Atlanta penitentiary for
stealing
the deputy sheriffs car in Tulsa to get his poor and money less
family
back to Tennessee to live with his mother.
-In her youthful
years Bettie was a loner and entertained herself with
her
active imagination.
-Bettie had her
first crush on a boy when she was nine, it was to a
fifteen
year old boy named Clarence. That love only ended when
Clerence
hit Bettie on hand with a rock :)
-Bettie's father,
Roy, got a fifteen year old pregnant, resulting in Roy's
and
Ednas divorce.
-Bettie's dreams
were to graduate high school and get a good career
as to
not end up like her parents.
-Bettie got
kicked out of her home when her mom's 20 year old
boyfriend
tried to fuck Bettie and that sent her mother off in a blind
jealousy
rage.
-later they made up when Edna broke up with her young Boyfriend.
-Bettie Worked as a secretary a major part of her pre pin up life.
-she met her future husband,Billy Neal in the 1940's.
-She always felt
this marriage was forced, because Right Before Billy
was sent
off to pearl harbor, he begged her to marry him, she 'owed' it
to
him because he might be killed fighting for his country.
-On February
18,1943 they got married, Bettie,a young 19 year old
virgin,
and Billy,living together with his parents.
-They Later
divorced, Not really spending much time together, but
Bettie, always
trying to keep it together, not ending up like her parents.
-Bettie was discovered in a Manhattan beach in October in 1950 by a photographer named Jerry Tibbs.
-Jerry constantly
tried to improve her look until finally he told her to
cut her
hair in bangs and she's been doing it ever since.
-Bettie frequently shot in camera clubs.
-Bettie is a born again Christian.
-Bettie was loved
by all the photographers because she was so easy to
work
with .
-Bettie Disappeared
from public in 1957 an has been anonymous ever
since.
-She is still
alive and living in an old Victorian home somewhere like in
California.
-Bettie's Favorite movie is Dark Victory with Bette Davis.
-She only
had one female friend because she does'int like socializing
with
women.
-Bettie was divorced three times.
-She now deeply regrets being old and has arthritis.
-
Bunny Yeager never gave Bettie any of her pictures for use in the
book
(life of a pin-up legend) ...... and Bettie never got any payment
or royalty
for her pictures.
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