As befitted a former model, when she finally stepped into the limelight, Joan Anderson did so in style, leaving her retirement home in California to jet into New York for the premiere of a film about ...

Joan Anderson: she took the craze of bamboo hoops from Australia to America but she and her husband were misled over the Hula Hoop® trademark - Riess Hill ​Joan Anderson, who has died ...

Courtesy Chris Riess and Amy Hill. Joan Anderson, the woman who introduced the hula hoop to the United States and gave it its iconic name, died last month at age 101. Anderson’s daughter, Loralyn ...

A high-speed camera films a robotic hula hooper with an hourglass shape, which helps the hoop stay up. Credit: NYU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory Successful hula hooping requires a body type with ...