Do You Like My Body? Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan) was a starry eyed small town girl who was launched into the world of fame powered by her sex appeal and eventually, her disarray. Anna Nicole was hardly born into the world of excess that surrounded her. Born and raised in a small town of Texas, Smith rose to fame as Playboy cover girl moving up to more couth modeling jobs like Guess (Piggot, 2020). Smith was deemed the “Marilyn Monroe of the 90’s”(Piggot, 2020)for her voluptuous blonde hair and show-stopping figure and like Marilyn, she also met a tragic end. The woman once the talk of town for her excessive beauty and small-town charm quickly became the subject of ridicule for her slurred speech, erratic behavior and fluctuating …show more content…
Anna’s life was tumultuous from birth to death. Smith was born in a small Texas town without a father and engrossed in poverty. She dropped out of high school and had a child at 19 years old, hopping from job to job and “dreaming of being Marilyn Monroe” (Sad End to a Troubled Life: Anna Nicole Smith 2007) This dream came true when she became a Playboy cover star known for her beauty and sensuality. Yet, the exact thing that Smith dreamed of as an escape from dysfunction soon also became her prison. Being deemed the 90’s Marilyn Monroe came with expectations of how to look, act and dress. The looks part soon helped empower her drug use. Anna gained weight and aged, this change was only met with more media scrutiny. She turned to cosmetic procedures in the form of buttock and body injections which lead to pains which were treated with prescription pills(Broward County Florida, n.d.). In addition, Smith was surrounded by enablers, all too happy to make money off of Smith’s attics while under the influence. In fact, after her death a trial was brought upon her lawyer/boyfriend, doctor and psychiatrist “alleging a conspiracy to prescribe prescription drugs to an addict.”(VON FREMD,