Bunny Yeager, a model and photographer, died at 85, her agent, Ed Christin said. Yeager's greatest achievement is her cultural impact on making bikinis popular. "Anyone in Miami in the 1950s who wanted a bikini would come to her, and she'd make one," he said. Yeager became famous for making women feel comfortable enough to take off clothes. Her photos of Bettie Page in a bathing suit standing next to a real cheetah  are still well-known today. "They all wanted to model for me because they knew that I wouldn't take advantage of them," Yeager told The Associated Press during a 2013 interview. In the 1940s, Yeager became one of the most photographed models in Miami during her early career. She later turned the camera on herself, in bathing suits she made for her 5-foot-9 frame by hand. Her self-portraits  were turned into a book, How I Photograph Myself, in 1946. She began taking photos of Page in 1954 as she began her job behind the camera. She published about a dozen books. And her works have been displayed in art galleries across the world. Yeager said she had a few requests when several magazines began to struggle or went out of business over the last decade, but her career returned to the public in 2010 when the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh held an exhibition of her works, followed by another exhibition in Miami in 2013. In her studio, Yeager kept some photos no one had ever seen in galleries. They will be included in a new book Yeager was finishing, scheduled for publication in September, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Yeager's first photo shoots with Page, Christin said. "I'm still feeling like a little child and excited about everything new that comes along in my life," Yeager said in 2013. "I don't know where it will lead to yet, but it sounds good to me." Bunny Yeager's photo of Bettie Page were  _  .
considered controversial never displayed at all not in How I photograph myself photographed with a cheetah