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Vickie Lynn Hogan, who would later would be known as Anna Nicole Smith, was born on November 28, 1967, in Houston, Texas.17-year-old Anna married 16-year-old Billy Smith and welcomed their son, Daniel Smith, in 1986. The next year, the couple divorced, resulting in Anna raising Daniel alone.
After divorcing Billy Smith, Anna Nicole Smith headed to Houston and worked as a Red Lobster waitress and Wal-Mart cashier. With her stunning stature, Anna collected more money working as a topless dancer in Rick's Cabaret bar. A photographer spotted her and Anna began to pursue her old dream, to be the next Marilyn Monroe.Anna had breast implants and cosmetic surgery before she entered the Playboy Cover Contest. At age 24, she posed for the magazine's cover and gained notice as Playboy Playmate of the Month in May 1992. In the mid 1990s, she appeared nude in Playboy's centerfold (June 1992 edition) and nabbed the coveted modeling job as the face of the lustrous Guess Jeans, replacing model Claudia Schiffer. Anna was also voted Playboy Playmate of the Year 1993.While working as an exotic dancer at a Houston bar, Anna met oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall. On June 27, 1994, 26-year-old Anna Nicole married the 89-year-old wheelchair bound oil tycoon, who died the following year. Anna subsequently had a long court battle with stepson E. Pierce Marshall to gain half of her late husband's fortune.The next year, Anna appeared on the wide screen by playing a bit part in her debut film, Joel Coen's comedy The Hudsucker Proxy (starring Tim Robbins and Paul Newman). She followed it up with the action comedy Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (starring Leslie Nielsen). In the Peter Segal-directed film, Anna played Fred Ward's naughty girlfriend and received a Razzie Award for Worst New Star. She also starred as the attractive, revengeful ex-CIA agent, Colette Dubois/Vickie Linn, in Raymond Martino's thriller action To the Limit (1995, opposite Joey Travolta).In 1996, Anna filed for bankruptcy and faced health problems resulting from the plastic surgery she had years ago. Afterward, she returned to acting and starred as buxom helicopter pilot Carrie Wisk in Raymond Martino's action thriller Skyscraper (1997, V, she also served as associate producer). She then was crowned Miss Republic of Cuervo Gold in 1998 and in 2000, appeared in Lane Bryant's campaign ads and starred in the short-fated series "N.Y.U.K."In 2002, Anna starred in her own reality show, "The Anna Nicole Smith Show." The show premiered on August 4th, 2002, on E! Networks and gave her a Teen Choice Awards nomination for Choice TV Reality/Variety Star - Female, in 2003. However, because of Anna's extensive weight increase that reduced the ratings, the cable later cancelled the show in 2004.Meanwhile, Anna starred in Lee Friedlander's comedy about a group of friends who kidnap her beloved pet Sugar-Pie in Wasabi Tuna (2003). More recent, she appeared in Bryan Michael Stoller's spoof movie, Miss Cast Away (2004) and in F. Gary Gray's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel, the gangster comedy Be Cool (2005, starring John Travolta).The pneumatic blonde died on February 8, 2007, after collapsing in her sixth-floor room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
