America’s Fascination with Anna Nicole Smith
Why America couldn’t get enough of Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith suffered a life full of f turmoil and pain. Her son passed away
last fall due to an alleged drug overdose, and now, her death leaves behind a baby only a couple of months old.
Anna Nicole was seen as a blowsy, disoriented woman on television, someone who made Ozzy Osbourne seem articulate.
She did not seem like someone who was happy with her life. This, unfortunately, was probably not an act.
Two reasons sum up why Anna Nicole Smith remains a point of fascination for the American public. She is a person we
admire at least partially for achieving the American dream and moving up from her hillbilly roots. She got
discovered as a Guess model and married a rich older man and thus acquired much of her fortune due to a lucky
series of events akin to winning the lottery. She was the object of both fame and envy in this regard. We both
wanted her to win and lose in the end.
However, she was also a person everyone wants to look down on as a freak show and a train-wreck. Her reality
television show especially seemed to show her as an uneducated, belligerent woman whose words were constantly
slurred and who surrounded herself with ridiculous yes-men who only stuck around for her money. What draws us to
her again and again is the sensation we might feel upon passing by a car crash—watching the destruction from a safe
distance away.
In fact, much of the uneasy appeal behind Anna Nicole Smith lay in the idea that we were watching something very
heartbreaking and pathetic that shouldn’t have been exposed to the public in the first place. Every second Anna
Nicole Smith received airtime as we followed her down her path to self-destruction was a quiet reproach upon the
conscience of the media and the American public. Her dysfunction became fodder for public consumption.
This dysfunction was exacerbated by her personal troubles, which ranged from ballooning weight issues to a battle
over her dead husband’s estate. She married oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, a man who was over sixty years her
senior. After he passed away, she fought with his relatives for his fortune, estimated at $1.6 billion.
In fact, Smith’s death won’t end legal battles for Marshall’s fortune. The battle is expected to continue on behalf
of Anna Nicole’s infant daughter. Additionally, two men are seeking paternity rights to Anna Nicole’s
daughter.
The case that decided Anna Nicole’s burial site also continued to make headlines.
The judge that presided over the case began to cry as he read the verdict. Anna Nicole Smith seems destined to make
sensationalist headlines even after her death.
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