Anna Nicole Smith

Birth Name:

Vickie Lynn Hogan

Birth Place:

Houston, Texas, United States

Profession

Actress, Producer, Director, Writer

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

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