Saturday, February 10, 2007

Hollywierd

How true it is that life is stranger than fiction. Previous drama aside, Anna Nicole's last couple of years will likely go down in history as one of the great mysteries of pop culture. We all know that she started out as a fast food worker and married young. She gave birth to her son when she was eighteen (give or take a year). That marriage was short-lived, so she became a stripper to support her son and got her infamous breast implants. Now I'm not clear on the chronology here, but she went onto pose for Playboy, became Playmate of the Year, and eventually landed a gig as the Guess girl. At some point she married the oil tycoon that would change her life. Up until that point she had this great image, well that went into the toilet as she became known as a golddigger.


After his death, she would spend the next several years fighting in court over a large fortune. Her tenacity to see it through actually earned her respect in many circles. She came across as ditzy and drugged, but I think she was smarter than people realized. Except for her major weight gain and a crazy stint on her reality show, she had toned her actions down in recent years. It was surprising to me when she got pregnant for the second time, but when she moved to the Bahamas I started to respect her a little bit more. She seemed to just want some measure of privacy. If there anything that I learned about her, other than her wildcat ways, she truly loved her son.

To have him die three days after she gives birth to her daughter? None of us can truly understand what that must've been like. They were as close as a mother and son could get. Even with all of her off-the-wall behavior, she doted on Daniel. It was the one thing that seemed truly real about her. I'm not trying to paint a saint here, but she is human. To lose her son when she was probably going through a major hormonal shift in her body had to really throw her for a loop. She has said in interviews that her family back in Texas is always trying to hit her up for money and guilt her into helping them out. Her own mother speaks poorly of her in the press, but professes to only want the best for her? It's no wonder that she wants nothing to do with them. She probably can't trust too many people.


She led a fascinating life and was famous for just being who she was. It is way too coincidental that both Anna Nicole and her son Daniel died within six months of each other. And both deaths are very mysterious. The conspiracy theories must be numerous. It would be in the best interests of little Dannielynn to get the paternity situation figured out. That way she can be brought up away from the spotlight to live as normal a life as possible. If Larry Birkhead or Howard K. Stern s the father, I hope he will have enough sense to do that for his daughter. I am in awe of the fact that three different men claim to be this baby's father. It's like the soap opera that won't end. Much like her idol, Anna strived to live her life in the same extraordinory way. While she was a bit kookier and tabloi-friendly, she will be definitely be remembered for being beautiful. In the strangest twist yet, Hugh Hefner bought the plot next to Marilyn Monroe's grave for Anna. She professed years ago that she wanted to be buried next to her idol. Sounds like she'll get her wish. They don't call it Hollywierd for nothing.

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