The Allure of Anna Nicole Smith

The Fascination with Anna May Have to Do, in Part, to Her Frankness and Out of the Norm Behavior

Maybe it’s because I’m easily jaded, but few are the people that fascinate me and fewer still are the ones that pique my interest in such a way that makes me a fan of theirs.

So, it would seem peculiar that I’d be a fan of someone like Anna Nicole Smith; the antithesis of many of my own cherished values, but I am a fan. 

Anna Nicole Smith is a walking contradiction. On the one hand you have trash talking Vicki Lynn Smith with many a slurred vocalization, and on the other hand you have the soft spoken, alluring Anna Nicole Smith.

Like many others, I first noticed her in the early 1990’s and what a bombshell she was; rare and breathtakingly unique in a fashion era of over hyped skin and bones. She was enchanting during her ‘behind the scenes’ 1993 interview with E when she waved at the camera and said, “Bye Texas…I mean Hi Texas!” Not only did she look unfairly glamorous, but her ditziness was engaging.

In an age of skeletal super models lacking feminine ample curves that make women so mysteriously striking, we had Anna Nicole Smith; larger than life with her voluptuous figure, Marilyn Monroe likeness, and her out of the ordinary statements about loathing exercise while loving to eat.

Really, aside from her, what other super model or celebrity examples of mystical femininity would dare to announce their love of pleasure in all its forbidden excess?

Mostly we’re bombarded with egotistical statements about a celebrity and her hours upon hours of sweat inducing exercise and healthy eating habits or testimonies proclaiming the deprivation diets that give them their ‘envious’ stick bodies, and then, God love her, there’s Anna Nicole; a beauty even when she doesn’t need to sweat or starve to achieve it.