Anna Nicole Smith

She was born as Vickie Lynn Hogan. During one of the advertisement assignments she changed her name to Anna Smith.

She was not happy with the small town life in Mexia and wanted to make it big in life. Hence, she came to Houston and started working as a dancer in a strip club. In 199she met J. Howard Marshal II at this club. He was an American business magnet.

Anna and Marshal got married in 1994 and remained married until his death in 1995. Their marriage created a huge controversy as at the time of marriage, she was 26 years old whereas he was 89 years of age. She allegedly married Marshal only for his estate.

Anna was born on 28th November, 1967 in Houston and was raised in Mexia, Texas by Donald Hogan and Virgie Mae. Her mother was working as sheriff’s deputy.

After her parents’ divorce in 1969, Anna was raised by her mother and aunt. She had a difficult childhood. She attended Durkee Elementary School and Aldine Senior High School in Houston. However, she dropped out of the school.

As a teenager she worked at local fried chicken restaurant where she met a cook, Billy Smith. At the age of 17, in 1985, she married Billy and had a son named Daniel a year later. Anna and Billy separated in 1993.

After the separation, she moved to Houston and started doing odd jobs such as working at Wal-Mart and exotic dancer at a strip club.

In 1992, she shot to fame when she modeled for ‘Playboy’ magazine. Immediately, she became the modeling sensation. She also appeared in advertisements for ‘Guess’ fashion brand later that same year.

In 1993, she modeled for Swedish clothing company H&M.

In 1994, she appeared in the comedy series ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’. She appeared as a celebrity who flirts with the lead character. The same year she also appeared in the movie ‘Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult’. This film was a commercial success. Both these roles were small. After this she remained in the news by appearing in many celebrity magazines. She enjoyed being in news and all the attention she was garnering from media.

The film ‘To The Limit’ fetched her the lead role and released in 1995. In this film, she portrayed a retired spy seeking revenge of murderer of her husband. This film was not successful. She appeared as herself in the pilot episode of ‘The Naked Truth’.

In 1996, she again tried to make a place in Hollywood by playing a lead role in ‘Skyscraper’. This was a low budget, direct to video movie. This film too did not do well and her film career got stalled.

Her reality show ‘The Anna Nicole Show’, released in 2002, was a success. This show was created to cash on her rising popularity with gossip columnist. This show was given the highest cable rating. This show featured herself, her son Daniel, assistant Kimberly Walther, her gay interior decorator Bobby Trendy, her cousin Shelly Cloud, her poodle ‘Sugar Pie’ and lawyer / boyfriend Howard K. Stern. The show had created quite a stir in college students and pop fans. Still second season of this show was not aired because till that time, the chAnnal had lost interest in the show.