Bettie Page Hospitalized After Suffering Heart Attack

Famous pin-up model Bettie Page, 85, was hospitalized in intensive care after suffering a heart attack, her agent said Friday.

“She’s critically ill,” Mark Roesler of the Curtis Management Group told The Associated Press.

He said she had the heart attack on Tuesday and was hospitalized Friday in the Los Angeles area.

A family friend, Todd Mueller, said Page was in a coma. When asked to confirm, Roesler said, “I would not deny that,” but he would not comment further on her condition.

Page’s magazine photographs in bikinis and see-through lingerie helped her become one of the most notable models of the 20th century.  She is credited with helping set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious 1960s.  She attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure that were tacked up on walls across the country.

Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.

Get well Bettie Page.