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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 met J. Howard Marshall II, a Texas billionaire who made his money in the oil business, while working in a strip club in Houston. He became one of her “regulars” lavishing her with gifts on a regular basis. They became friends and oddly enough lovers. Their 63 year difference in age didn’t seem to make much difference. During the four years that they knew each other Marshall asked her numerous times to marry him. It was only after she had made a name for herself at age 26 that she finally agreed.

Anna says she saved Marshall’s life one day when he stopped breathing. She quickly went to his rescue and resuscitated him after calling everyone she knew for help. It scared her immensely but she kept it together enough to help him out. If she had really been just after his money wouldn’t she have just let him go?

She say’s they had sex before their marriage and during as well as performing her “wifely duties”. There had always been speculation on that fact and Anna answered it publicly in interviews. That was viewed as a very odd relationship for most people and the fact that she loved him enough to “perform” for him made it seem more bizarre. I guess it is hard to image that sort of thing when the person you are envisioning it with is old enough to be your grandfather or even great-grandfather huh?

According to Anna’s half-sister Donna Hogan she felt that Marshall was Anna’s security blanket, basically. Her opinion of their marriage was that he made her sister feel secure, safe and well-taken care of. That is a very common reason for a woman to get married, there is nothing out of the ordinary here. I would venture to say that is probably the most common reason of all!

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 »