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Bettie Page, the saucy ‘50s pin-up, has been hospitalized in an intensive care unit after suffering a heart attack.  The 85 year old Page’s bondage photos appeared in men’s magazines such as Wink in the ‘50s.  She was a Playboy centerfold in the January 1955 issue. 

While thought to have helped spark the sexual revolution, Page appeared nude, but never in sexually explicit pictures.  In 1959, she attended a Baptist church service, converted to Christianity, even briefly doing missionary work.  She left her pinup days behind to live in relative obscurity, but still remains a major sexual icon, thanks in part to cartoonist Dave Stevens using her in The Rocketeer then helping her license her classic image for merchandising.

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