ANNA NICOLE SMITH - "E" TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY [359]
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the death of Texas native Anna Nicole Smith, who captured the heart of America with her beautiful looks and the rags-to-riches tale of a dirt-poor small-town girlturned superstar.
NEW YORK FEBRUARY 12: Anna Nicole Smith walks the runway at the Heatherette fashion show on February 12, 2004 during Olympus 2004 Fashion Week, in New York City. (Photo by Matthew Peyton/Getty Images)
On Tuesday,Buzzfeed published a profile detailing the late American icons rise to fame and the subsequent destruction of her image, her life and her health. Here area few Texas highlights from the profile on Smith, who was born in Houston and raised in Mexia.
the high-fashion look didnt count for much in Mexia, or even in Dallasor Houston, and Vickie Lynn needed a body that would help her survive the world she lived in, and maybe even escape it.
Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, the models 6-foot figure and stunning looks were too much for the small town (Mexias population was only about 6,000 in the 1960s, when Smith was born). So she left Mexia when she was 18, a single mother recently divorced from her allegedly abusive husband, and she headed to Houston.
Though inescapably connected with a commodity drawn up from deep in the ground, Houston belongs to the ocean.
The profile details a part of the Lone Star State many Texans know well: Dry farmland giving way to pink skies and sudden downpours all-too-common on the land along the Gulf Coast.
Buzzfeed writes:
Its a port city, and like all port cities, it is a place of transformation: a place where the skyline can change seemingly overnight, where fortunes can be won and lost in an instant, and where the people who kept you down all your life cant keep you down anymore, because you can become whatever you say you are or at least whatever the city will pay you to be.
In Houston, Smith still going by Vickie Lynn found jobs at Walmart and Red Lobster in the mid-1980s.
Houston was the implant capital of America
Now heres a today I learned story you can tell your friends about.
Silicone breast implants were invented in 1961 by two surgeons from Baylor University, and according to Buzzfeed, theywere one of Houstons hottest commodities in the 1980s, almost as synonymous with Texas-sized dreams and desires as the lasso was.
However, Houston also later became the implant-related lawsuit capital of the world in the early 1990s, as women sued manufacturers for faulty implants.
she became anna nicole smith while dancing at a Houston strip club
After realizing Walmart and Red Lobster couldnt pay the bills, Smithtook a job dancing at the Executive Suite, a strip club near Houston Intercontinental Airport.
Buzzfeed reports the businessmen who frequented the club didnt much care for Smiths body, as she was both too big and too small for the business of seduction.
So Smith saved her money to get breast implants and buy herself the body of Anna Nicole Smith, saying goodbye to Vickie Lynn and landing a job at Ricks, the legendary Houston strip club that some claimed had singlehandedly popularized the silicone implant, Buzzfeed writes.
She met J. Howard Marshall while dancing at Ricks in 1988. Marshall, an elderly man who had gotten rich on the East Texas oil boom of the early 20th century, would later become Smiths husband.
Read the rest of the profile, which goes into detail about Smiths professional life, her personal relationships and her ties to her Texas family.
Source: http://buzzworthy.blog.austin360.com/2017/02/09/the-most-texas-tidbits-from-this-anna-nicole-smith-profile/
