Anna Nicole Smith Biography

Fast Facts

• Worked as a dancer, stripper, and Wal-Mart employee before becoming a model
• Quote: "I've always liked attention․ I didn't get very much growing up, and I always wanted to be, you know, noticed․"
• Was under heavy media scrutiny after her marriage to oil tycoon J․ Howard Marshall II, a man more than 60 years older than her, and the subsequent court battle for a part of his fortune after his death
• Appeared in films like "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" and "The Hudsucker Proxy․"
• Best known as a model and television personality who appeared in Guess ad campaigns and Playboy magazine
• Starred in the reality series "The Anna Nicole Show" in the early 2000s
• Her life inspired several books, documentaries, and films, as well as an opera called "Anna Nicole" in 2011 and a TV series called "The Anna Nicole Story" in 2012