Netflix premieres a documentary about the young woman who in 1993 was ‘playmate’ of the year for ‘Playboy’ and who died at the age of 39 from an overdose of sedatives
Her name was actually Vickie Lynn Hogan.. He was born in Mexia (Texas) in 1967. Passed away as a result of an overdose of sedatives in 2007. She was on the cover of ‘Playboy‘ in the March 1992 issue and, at age 25, became the ‘playmate’ of the year. The magazine’s owner, Hugh Hefner, then gave him a Jaguar car to celebrate. She considered herself the reincarnated daughter of Marilyn Monroe. He had a heritage of more than 450 million euros. She was a model for the Guess clothing firm and was considered the new Claudia Schiffer, although she looked more like Jayne Mansfield and Anita Ekberg. Her first brief film role was as Tim Robbins’ voluptuous mistress in the Coen brothers’ ‘The Big Leap’. In her time of media splendor, the paparazzi came to charge between 4,500 and 7,000 euros for capturing a video of her.
These are some of the aspects that it shows ‘Anna Nicole Smith: You don’t know me’, the documentary about the model, ‘playmate’ and actress that has just been released Netflix. A rugged life, far from the mythologized American dream that Anna Nicole pursued, with many more shadows than lights. “I advise people to follow their dreams & rdquor ;, she recommends from a home video in one of the most recurring phrases in American culture.
“She liked to attract attention as a child & rdquor ;, recalls her uncle. “When we went shopping, 50 kids followed her & rdquor; we heard her mother say in a broken voice. She married at 17 years old. Her teenage husband was very jealous, she felt lonely and she threw the contraceptive pills into the bathroom to get pregnant. Six months after little Daniel was born –died at the age of 20 in circumstances just as tragic as those of his mother–left Texas with him.
“I wanted to earn a lot of money, design my own house and build it,” we heard him say in another video. Back with the American dream. And she did it, his way. First in Houston, working the strip joints. “Being with her was like being on a roller coaster, you were never bored & rdquor ;, confesses one of her friends and lovers from those years. Anna Nicole had breast surgery. To combat the subsequent pain, he began to consume analgesics: diazepam, alprazolam, paracetamol and clonazepam.. She never left them again. At the end of her life she was addicted to methadone without having been a heroin addict.
The American dream came from another side. She married J. Howard Marshall, an elderly oil magnate with a net worth of €1.5 billion.. She always said that she was in love with him. Marshall’s son never bought it. The inheritance dispute was a real soap opera. anna nicole lost it. She had many lovers, and a second child whose paternity remains unclear. When he was 24 years old, he met his biological father. The video recording in which she is seen arriving in a limo at the airport to pick him up and her brother is amazing. The young man explains, years later, that his father was a monster and came to confess that he had raped his wife’s sister. That dream, that of recovering her father, soon fell apart.
Stock images don’t lie. The determined Texan girl appears aged, out of date, a caricature of herself.. She gained weight and was about to die after several days without eating any food. A broken doll. Another one on the dark side of popularity. The fame that weighs like a slab. In 2007 and in 2013 two ‘biopics’ were made about her, and an opera in two acts was even dedicated to her, ‘Anna Nicole’, premiered in 2011 at the Royal Opera House in London with the Dutch soprano Eva Maria Westbroek.