I consider myself a fan of Anna Nicole Smith. Not because she showed up in Playboy. Not because she was, as one documentarian once called her, the “cadillac of bimbos.” Not even because she went down in a blaze of glory.

I liked Anna Nicole Smith because she never shied away from who she was. Anna Nicole Smith knew that men looked at her as a sex object. She knew that the world never really took her seriously. She also knew that people thought of her as a gold-digging opportunist. Yet, no matter what, she always had a smile on her face.

Her television show was a disaster. She looked seriously stoned 99% of the time. In fact, she was barely coherent just about every time she opened her mouth. Criticism flew like jets and yet through it all, she kept smiling and never made any excuses.

Any was what she was, was proud of what she was, and she never let any of the idiots in the “business” drag her into a black hole or a pissing match.

Anna will be missed and she died way too young.

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