In the crazy mixed up world in which we live there always seem to be some beautiful buxom blonde whose tragic life ends "like a candle in the wind". Since modern infatuations produced by Hollywood and various publications (i.e. Hef's magazine) have given us worldwide crushes, we have sadly watch Marilyn, Jane Mansfield and now, Anna Nicole Smith leave us after a short but tantalizing stay in our hearts. Anna Nicole was 39.
The Greek Tragedy of Hollywood Starlets
Sadly, there is not a safety net to catch all of the beautiful, scared, insecure and young starlets who come to Hollywood with dreams and aspirations to become an actress or fulfilling a desire to be loved and accepted-something they were missing at home-before they are taken advantage of and cast to the side by the powers that be. The motivations and circumstances behind the stories of these women is a story as old as time itself. In Plato's Republic, we are reminded that the desires of men are primal in nature as our quest for sex and power over and from the opposite sex are our main motivators. For women, their desires are for security and gold for themselves and their children by aligning themselves with powerful and wealthy men. Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone, but for the majority, it does.
Vickie Lynn Hogan worked as a waitress at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken. A beautiful girl with all of innocence and laughter of life one could want. Her baggage was a troubled past and she searched for love in her humble town of Mexia, Texas. She met and fell in love with a line-cook named Billy Wayne Smith and with the math in play, it seems a shotgun may have been involved with their wedding as she bore a son, Biblically named Daniel 9-months later. But a transition of destiny was in play and the small town girl would leave her tumbleweed town to pursue a new life for herself and child.
The result of this transformation would be the former Guess and Playboy model, Anna Nicole Smith-a platinum blonde, full of energy and joie de vie. Anna Nicole found a special place in the Bushido's heart as she became Miss March 1992 in Hef's magazine and then she would win PMOY in 1993. (What can I say? I have a special place in my heart for my birth month Centerfolds). A promising billboard modeling career with Guess Jeans would soon bring her sculpted face and body to the rest of the world. But under the microscope life would change for Ms. Smith. (Photos compliments of Playboy)
Anna Nicole was no different than any other person who searches for a father figure to fill a void in their life. Albeit Anna Nicole found her love with an elderly, oil-tycoon named, J. Howard Marshall. She was 26, he was 89. Once again, all of the elements of a Greek Tragedy were in play-found love and happiness soon to be cut short by the Gods. Their love and her security was cut short after a year of marriage by Marshall's untimely death-but I am sure he died quite happy. But the loser in this union was Anna Nicole-she lost her security and her love. Marshall's family fought Ms. Smith quite diligently in her efforts to claim her security. This fight would result in numerous court battles and find its' way to the highest of courts last year. Indeed, the history books will read that Anna Nicole Smith was the first Playmate to testify in front of the Supreme Court. The fight would take its' toll on the young beauty; she would gain weight, become questionably unstable mentally but TrimSpa baby! Would make her somewhat hole again, until she lost her son this year, just days before the birth of her child, Dannielynn. (Photo compliments of Intomyhealth.com)The jury, so to speak, is still out on the cause of Ms. Smith's death. It would be hard to think that it wasn't a sad, tragic and repetitive overdose on prescriptions pills that ended her life, just as many before her. The pressures of death, birth, lack of security, fighting a horrible court battle and losing one's joie de vie is enough to bring anyone to their knees in the depths of fear and loathing. And just like a candle in the wind, Anna Nicole is gone!
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