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Anna Nicole Smith
1967-2007
She came from nothing, but she lived bigger than most.
A small-town girl who was determined to make something of herself, Anna Nicole Smith had the quintessential train-wreck life: interguing, eye-popping, tragic.
The high school dropout-turned-dazzler, who died Thursday at 39 in a hospital in Hollywood, Fla, wasf facinating to celebrity watchers- not because she is an A-List star but because she was an unpredictable blond bombshell who was always in the middle of controversy.
She married a billionair 60 years her senior and then batted his heirs over the estate, ending with a victory at the Supreme Court.
The world watched as she battled her weight, gaining, losing then gaining again. She became a TV star, ridding the reality show mania, in a series that offerd a candid look at how a celebrity lived.
In a spam of days, she gave birth to a daughter, and her 20-year old son was found dead in her recovery room. Now, Dannielynn, 5 months is without a mother and her father’s identity is uncertain.
Smith’s former layer Lenard Leeds told TMZ.com it’s no secret that Smith “had a very troubled life” and added that she had “so many, many problems.”
Still, she flirted and laughed her way through life.
Shots of her on red carpets vamping like her childhood idol Marilyn Monroe ran on cable news channels for hours after the news broke Thursday, proof that Smith had achieved her goal of finding a place in the spotlight.
Smith made everyone laugh along with her- and at her- until it just wasn’t funny anymore.
At 17, she met Billy Smith, a coworker at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken, and they had a baby Daniel. Two years later, they divorced. She began working at topless bars in Houston to pay the bills.
Her nickname was “Sweet Cheek.” Though her body was voluptuous, her breasts weren’t, and she was allowed to work only the afternoon shift.
The first order of business: breast implants. In 1991, at 24, she entered a Playboy contest and won. In 1992, she listed her “turn-ons” as “Men who wear braces, cowboys! I also get off on scary movies.” In 1993, she was playmate of the year. (Founder Hugh Hefner issued a statement on Thurday saying he was “saddened” by the news of Smith’s death.)
After that, she was offered a modeling job for Guess? Jeans.
In 1994, she made her big-screen debut in Naked Gun 331/3: The Final Insult. It was the same time she married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who was in a wheel chair and more than 60 years her senior. They had met years earlier when she was an exotic dancer.
When she was defending her marriage to Marshall, she told In Touch: “Nobody has ever respected me or done things for me. So when Howard came along, it was a blessing.”
But the blessing was short-lived. His death, less than two years later, in 1995, left behind a fortune estimated at 1.6 billion. She was still fighting for a share of the money when she died.
USA Today
Anna Nicole Smith
1967-2007
She came from nothing, but she lived bigger than most.
A small-town girl who was determined to make something of herself, Anna Nicole Smith had the quintessential train-wreck life: interguing, eye-popping, tragic.
The high school dropout-turned-dazzler, who died Thursday at 39 in a hospital in Hollywood, Fla, wasf facinating to celebrity watchers- not because she is an A-List star but because she was an unpredictable blond bombshell who was always in the middle of controversy.
She married a billionair 60 years her senior and then batted his heirs over the estate, ending with a victory at the Supreme Court.
The world watched as she battled her weight, gaining, losing then gaining again. She became a TV star, ridding the reality show mania, in a series that offerd a candid look at how a celebrity lived.
In a spam of days, she gave birth to a daughter, and her 20-year old son was found dead in her recovery room. Now, Dannielynn, 5 months is without a mother and her father’s identity is uncertain.
Smith’s former layer Lenard Leeds told TMZ.com it’s no secret that Smith “had a very troubled life” and added that she had “so many, many problems.”
Still, she flirted and laughed her way through life.
Shots of her on red carpets vamping like her childhood idol Marilyn Monroe ran on cable news channels for hours after the news broke Thursday, proof that Smith had achieved her goal of finding a place in the spotlight.
Smith made everyone laugh along with her- and at her- until it just wasn’t funny anymore.
At 17, she met Billy Smith, a coworker at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken, and they had a baby Daniel. Two years later, they divorced. She began working at topless bars in Houston to pay the bills.
Her nickname was “Sweet Cheek.” Though her body was voluptuous, her breasts weren’t, and she was allowed to work only the afternoon shift.
The first order of business: breast implants. In 1991, at 24, she entered a Playboy contest and won. In 1992, she listed her “turn-ons” as “Men who wear braces, cowboys! I also get off on scary movies.” In 1993, she was playmate of the year. (Founder Hugh Hefner issued a statement on Thurday saying he was “saddened” by the news of Smith’s death.)
After that, she was offered a modeling job for Guess? Jeans.
In 1994, she made her big-screen debut in Naked Gun 331/3: The Final Insult. It was the same time she married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who was in a wheel chair and more than 60 years her senior. They had met years earlier when she was an exotic dancer.
When she was defending her marriage to Marshall, she told In Touch: “Nobody has ever respected me or done things for me. So when Howard came along, it was a blessing.”
But the blessing was short-lived. His death, less than two years later, in 1995, left behind a fortune estimated at 1.6 billion. She was still fighting for a share of the money when she died.
USA Today