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I went surfing on Youtube to find some good video of Anna. I ran across this video which actually has quite a bit of footage of her and Larry Birkhead. She is with Howard as well at the 2nd half of this, but upon watching it I get a sense of what was going on.

I love the music in this. It starts with J. Howard Marshall II, Anna’s 2nd husband. Then moves into Larry with most pics with Howard actually in the background. I didn’t catch that at first. I think Larry was more a part of Anna’s life then I had previously believed.

In the pictures of Howard & Anna, at least in this one video, I don’t get the overwhelming sense of love. It just seems like a friendly relationship. The mock wedding in The Bahamas, Anna obviously was “not all there.” It was just for show and nothing more. She looked like she was made to do it, not into it at all. Like a show, which she was famous for, but in this particular role she was NOT convincing.

I stand corrected, in one area — the one small snippet at 1:47 in the video, with Daniel, it was totally and undeniably believable. Her love for him shined through like a flicker of flame on a prism. It permeated and enveloped everyone in it’s path.

Watch the video and see if you get the same impression. This is after all, simply my impression, not anything more.

Author: Traci Love

Anna Nicole Smith as we know her started her life out on November 28, 1967 as Vickie Lynn Hogan born in Harris County, Texas. She was the only child of Donald Eugene Hogan (born July 12, 1947) and Virgie Mae (née Tabers; born July 12, 1951). Her father didn’t stick around her long in her life as he left both her and her mother. They were only married for two years. Subsequently Anna was raised by her mother Virgie and Elaine (Todd) Tabers, wife of Virgie’s brother, Melvin Tabers. Anna had a half-brother, David Luther Tacker, Jr., who was one year older than her.

Her mother then remarried two years after her divorce to Anna’s father to Donald R. Hart and they gave birth to Anna’s younger half-brother Donald Ray Hart, Jr. It was after this marriage that Anna had her first name change, even her first name! Her new name was now Nikki Hart. She obviously thought this marriage would last, but alas it did not. It did make it 12 years. Her mother went on to marry many times more to Joe D. Thompson (1987, divorced 1991), James T. Sanders (1996, died 1996), and James H. Arthur (2000).

This carousel of men did not give Anna the right idea of what a good relationship was all about. Her mother was NOT the best of role models for her. It is no wonder that she did not have good luck in this department.

Her father also remarried and had more children, giving Anna more half-siblings, Donna Hogan (born 1971), Donald Ray Hogan (born 1973), and Amy Hogan (born 1975).

Her next name change came at age 17 when she married Billy Wayne Smith, who was 16 and a cook at the restaurant where she worked. The couple married April 4, 1985 and next year she gave birth to their son Daniel Wayne Smith. She and Billy separated in 1987 and she moved to Houston with one-year-old Daniel. They were officially divorced February 3, 1993, in Houston. I have not heard why Anna waited so long to get divorced.

I do know that her persona she developed was around the “Smith” name so there had to be some good reasoning, probably because it was Daniel’s last name and thereby not being outwardly obvious that she wasn’t with his father. It was a different approach than what she experienced by her mother who changed her name constantly. It makes a woman feel more joined to their children, this I know from experience myself. Read the rest of this entry »