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Hotty from History #25 Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948)

• Zelda is best known as the wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald BUT she was an absolute hotty in her own way! She once said “I don’t want to live- I want to love first, and live incidentally. ” She was a talented lady full to the brim with passion, and passion is generally a hotty attribute.
• She was an icon of the 1920s. Being an icon of any era is a pretty exciting feat, but being an icon of the 1920s is particularly hot because the 20s were so deliciously full of scandal, jazz and sex.
• After the First World War, Zelda moved from America to Europe, along with other famous artists who would make up the so called ‘Lost Generation’. Whilst there her and her alcoholic husband enjoyed a marriage of jealousy and resentment: Zelda once through herself down a flight of marble stairs because Scott was flirting with Isadora Duncan. That must have been an exciting party.
• Zelda, possibly looking for an outreach for all the repressed passion she had stirring inside her, became obsessed by the idea of being a ballerina. She practised endlessly and to exhaustion. This is of course very sad, but also incredibly beautiful, romantic and poetic. And besides..she looked a hotty in a leotard.
• Zelda was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to a Sanatorium at the age of 30. Whilst there Zelda wrote an incredibly poorly recieved novel called Save Me the Waltz. F. Scott is reported to have told her whilst visiting her in the sanatorium that she was a “third rate writer and a third rate ballet dancer”. A little harsh, there, Scott. Well, little did Scott know that decades later Zelda would be portrayed by Keira Knightley in a film about their marriage. And who will Scott be played by? That hasn’t even been decided yet. Zelda is the real hotty here!!
• She eventually burnt to death in a fire at the age of 48. Okay, so that in itself is terribly tragic, but also…sounds exciting. And again, very poetic. Makes for a good film. That’s always a good sign of a hotty: that their life would translate into a very good film.
• She was a feminist icon in the 70s because of the repressive nature of her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Being an icon of the Jazz age and later an icon of Women’s Lib is pretty awesome. And being a HOT icon of feminism? Even better!

-Georgia

she died on my birthday :[