Anna Nicole Smith Bio 
Anna Nicole Smith was an American glamour model, actress, and television personality. She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967, in Houston, Texas. Playboy named her its May 1992 Playmate at 24. She was later named Playmate of the Year 1993. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1990s print era, a period increasingly shaped by entertainment and celebrity culture.
Smith had enhanced breasts, hazel eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 36-26-38.
Before glamour magazines and tabloid headlines, Anna Nicole Smith’s life was considerably less extravagant. Raised in Texas, she married young and had a son. She and her husband both worked at Jim’s Krispy Fried Chicken, but the marriage was short-lived. Later, while working in Houston, she spotted a newspaper advertisement for a Playboy audition. Vickie Lynn Hogan chose the professional name Anna Nicole Smith, and the reinvention that followed would prove remarkably complete.
Her time with Playboy quickly became the foundation for a much broader modeling career. During an early stay at the Playboy Mansion, actor Tony Curtis visited and sketched a small portrait of her, an appropriately old-Hollywood moment for a woman fascinated by Marilyn Monroe. In 1993, Smith was named Playmate of the Year and became the face of Guess Jeans. The Guess campaign amplified the voluptuous, platinum-blonde image that would become inseparable from her public identity and pushed her from magazine recognition into mainstream celebrity.
That celebrity soon spilled into Hollywood. Smith appeared in The Hudsucker Proxy as Tim Robbins’ girlfriend and later accumulated television credits including Ally McBeal. Playboy revisited her Marilyn-inspired image on the cover of its February 2001 issue. Photographer Arny Freytag and photo editor Marilyn Grabowski would later recall how strongly Smith identified with Monroe; Grabowski remembered her playing Monroe’s music during shoots and singing along while she worked.
Her private life, meanwhile, became a public spectacle of its own. In 1994 she married J. Howard Marshall, the considerably older oil businessman who had previously proposed to her. His death the following year triggered a prolonged battle over his estate, keeping Smith in courtrooms and headlines for years. By the early 2000s, The Anna Nicole Show turned that extraordinary public persona into reality television, inviting viewers into a life that could be funny, chaotic and deeply unpredictable. She later took on commercial work as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa.
The final chapter was far darker. Smith gave birth to her daughter Dannielynn in 2006, only to lose her son Daniel three days later. On February 8, 2007, Smith died in Hollywood, Florida. Her career had travelled an unlikely distance—from a Texas chicken restaurant and a newspaper audition to fashion campaigns, Hollywood roles, reality television and relentless international celebrity. Playboy was there near the beginning, before the court battles and television cameras turned Anna Nicole Smith into something larger and more complicated than the blonde bombshell image that first made America notice her.
