The documentary “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” It premiered on Netflix on May 16, 2023 and has included previously unpublished interviews with people close to the model who have clarified her complicated life and death. If you want to know more about it, here we explain it to you.
Who was Anna Nicole Smith? ANS was a marketing invention to launch Vickie Lynn Hogan, a young woman originally from Mexia, Texas, who wanted to venture into the world of entertainment to fame.
Vicky rose to fame after being featured on the cover of the March 1992 issue of Playboy magazine. Since then, she has become a sensation and became the face of jeans for the Guess clothing brand, replacing Claudia Schiffer.
Later, she began her career as an actress, when she was invited to be part of the movie “The Hudsucker Proxy”. She has also been a part of other titles such as “Naked Gun 33 + 1⁄3: The Final Insult” and “To the Limit”.
However, what was one of the most famous women in the mid-nineties had a tragic end. Before continuing, watch the trailer for “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” here.
THE DEATH OF HIS SON DANIEL
A few months before her death, Anna Nicole Smith suffered the worst moment of her life. Shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, hers son hers Daniel, whom she had at age 17, came to visit her at the hospital in the Bahamas and passed away unexpectedly.
Later, it was revealed that it was an accidental death, as the 20-year-old had mixed two antidepressants with methadone, which was a fatal combination for him.
The loss of her son plunged Anna Nicole Smith into a terrible depression, as Daniel had been the engine of her life.
“Everything he did was for Daniel. Every conversation was about what he did wrong, he blamed himself the whole time. She said ‘I just want to die, I don’t deserve to be here. It should have been me. It should never have been himsaid Pol Atteu, the model’s stylist who was one of the interviewees in the Netflix documentary and wrote “Anna Nicole Smith Portrait of an Icon.”
THE CUSTODY OF DANNIELYNN
As if the loss of her son had not been enough, Anna Nicole Smith had to face the media and legal bombardment for the custody of her daughter, because her ex-boyfriend, the photographer Larry Birkhead, assured that he was the real father and that he wanted to see to your daughter.
However, according to the revelation of Mitchell Olson, the model’s close friend, she and her team had traveled to the Bahamas precisely so that Howard K. Stern would sign as the girl’s legal father and get rid of Birkhead asking for joint custody.
For this reason, during the months in which she had to focus on recovering after giving birth, caring for her newborn and mourning the death of her son, Anna Nicole Smith was subjected to a media and judicial parade.
THE CAUSE OF DEATH OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH
On February 8, 2007, Anna Nicole Smith was found unconscious in her Miami hotel room by her personal nurse, who performed CPR until paramedics arrived.
However, just minutes after arriving at the hospital, she was pronounced dead at the age of 39.
Joshua Perper, the forensic pathologist in charge, announced that Anna Nicole Smith died due to a “intoxication by a combination of (legal) drugs”, with their sleeping pills (chloral hydrate) being the largest component.