1. Betty Brosmer has been a longtime magazine columnist and co-authored several books on fitness and physical exercise.
15 Facts About Betty Brosmer
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Betty Brosmer lived her early childhood in Carmel but later, from about the age of ten, grew up in Los Angeles.
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Small and slight of frame, Betty Brosmer embarked on a personal bodybuilding and weight training regimen before she was a teenager.
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Betty Brosmer returned to Los Angeles and was asked to pose for two of the most celebrated pin-up artists of the era, Alberto Vargas and Earl Moran.
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Betty Brosmer built her photographic portfolio while attending George Washington High School in Manhattan.
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Betty Brosmer was employed as a fashion model, and in 1954 posed for Christian Dior.
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Betty Brosmer won numerous New York area beauty contests in the early 1950s, most famously "Miss Television"; in that capacity she appeared in TV Guide, as well as on the widely seen programs of Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason and others.
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Back on the West Coast, Betty Brosmer maintained a busy freelance workload in fashion and commercial modeling, while at the same time continuing her education, majoring in psychology at UCLA.
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Betty Brosmer entered into a lucrative contract with the glamour photographer Keith Bernard, and she worked steadily with him for the rest of the decade.
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For Bernard, a well-established photographer who had worked with Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, Betty Brosmer would prove to be the top-selling pin-up model of his career.
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Betty Brosmer was known to be his favorite model and he requested her more and more frequently after their first face-to-face meeting in 1959.
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The marriage was Joe Weider's second, and he had one daughter from his previous wife; he and Betty Brosmer had no children together.
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Betty Brosmer remained a highly visible presence among the various magazines, and was continuously included in their editorial photo work as well.
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Betty Brosmer worked as associate editor for the female-oriented Weider magazine, Shape.
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Betty Brosmer is portrayed by actress Julianne Hough in the Weider family biopic Bigger.