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Betty Brosmer
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Betty Brosmer (born August 2, 1935) is an American model who was known as "the first supermodel." She subsequently had a long career in the fitness and bodybuilding movements.
Biography
Betty started as a teenage model for the Sears & Roebuck catalog, and went on to model in other catalogs, advertising, and marketing materials at the national level. Her face could be seen regularly in full page ads in publications such as Esquire, Fortune, Time, Life and The Saturday Evening Post. She won her first beauty contest as "Miss Television" in the 1950s and her photo, posing at the top of the Empire State Building with the TV antenna, was a TV Guide cover. Winning more than fifty more beauty queen crowns, she became the highest paid pin-up girl in the United States in the 1950s with her face and curvaceous figure appearing on more than two-hundred magazine covers.
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