Betty built her photographic portfolio while attending George Washington High School in Manhattan. Encouraged, her aunt took her back to New York City again in 1950, and this time they took up residency.
The following year she visited New York City with her aunt and posed for pictures with a professional photographic studio one of her photos was sold to Emerson Televisions for use in commercial advertising, and it became a widely-used promotional piece, printed in national magazines for several years thereafter.īetty returned to Los Angeles and was soon asked to pose for two of the most celebrated pin-up artists of the era, Alberto Vargas and Earl Moran. Raised as a sports fan by her father, she excelled in youth athletics and was “something of a tomboy”.Ī photo of Betty appeared in the Sears & Roebuck catalog when she was 13 years old. Naturally small and slight of frame, she embarked on a personal bodybuilding and weight training regimen before she was a teenager. It’s speculated that Betty achieved her tiny waist with a little help from the practise of corset training, also known as waist training, waist reduction or tightlacing, for moulding a pronounced and significantly smaller waist, altering the shape of the ribcage in extreme cases and moving internal organs out of their original positions.īetty Brosmer (born on August 2, 1935) lived her early childhood in Carmel but later, from about the age of ten, grew up in Los Angeles. Her phenomenal measurements: 38-18-36 (in inches) and 96-45-91 in centimeters gave her the title “The most gorgeous body of 50s”. She was a forerunner of such stars as Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. The result was more than impressive – she has won over 50 beauty contests, has appeared on magazine covers more than 300 times, her image decorated more than a hundred calendars, billboards across the country, and she was the highest paid model.
Beauty queen of 1950s Betty Brosmer started her model career at the age of 13.