“Anna should be remembered as this larger-than-life figure that was really a caring, giving person," Larry Birkhead said,"A beautiful lady who loved her fans and loved her family."To the world, Anna Nicole Smith was a glamorous, voluptuous blonde Hollywood bombshell. But those who knew her best say she warred privately with the public ridicule about her relationships, prescription drug use and weight.
Those who truly loved her saw her as she truly was. They remember how she bravely fought to support her family and prove that she loved her husband and deserved a part of his fortune. They saw her private effort to navigate countless medical and legal troubles -- moments in which she showed that Vickie Lynn continued to live on in Anna Nicole Smith.Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan outside of Houston. Her childhood best friend, Jo McLemore, remembered Smith's mother as very stern.
"When she went to school here, in Mexia, she was miserable," McLemore said."She was having a hard time with being bullied. At that point, I think, after all she'd been through ... just all the struggles in her life, she was finally fed up.""There was nothing else to do here," she said, laughing."There's no movie theaters. I mean there wasn't Starbucks or anything. Basically the main place to eat was Krispy's.
In 1991, 86-year-old J. Howard Marshall II, a billionaire from his investment in Koch Industries, came into her club. His wife had passed away and Lady Walker, a flamboyant exotic dancer with whom he had a 10-year relationship, had also died. "Around 1992, my uncle called me who lived here and said, '[Smith]… made Playboy,'" she said."I was like, 'What?' He said, 'She made Playboy.' And I said, 'She did not.' And he said, 'Yes, yes, I promise. Get the magazine.'"Anna Nicole Smith at a. party introducing Playboy's 1993 Playmate of the Year, May 13, 1993."I was kind of weirded out," McLemore said.
"It was never about the money, and she loved this man," Martino said."She would sit close to him with her legs on the couch over him. And he would laugh and they were as happy and communicative with each other as two people could be." "After my husband passed, it was really, really hard on me," Smith told"20/20" in 2000."He knew me when I was nobody and that's what people don't understand, and I don't wanna be called a gold digger because I'm not. I could've married him a week after we met, or two weeks after we met. I could've married him years before, and I didn't. I didn't. I went out and I made something of myself.
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