HISTORY IN PICTURES | The way to Anna Nicole Smith's glory.

The sex symbol of the ' 90s and the woman, famous for scandals and outrage, is a classic example of the American history of a star that went from poverty to wealth and died because of promiscuity.

Vicky Lynn Hogan was born in 1967. The father immediately left the family, the mother was gone at work of a Deputy Sheriff. Perhaps due to the lack of attention to the girl differed defiance: there was a case when the mother dumped her on the floor and hands were chained in handcuffs for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Vicky left school, got a job as a waitress and married cook Billy Smith, with whom she had a son. Then she dropped everything, went to Houston, repainted in blonde, pumped up Breasts with silicone and got a job as a stripper. In 22 years in the same strip club the girl met oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who fell in love with Smith's uniforms.

Photo by Anna Nicole Smith for clothing brand GUESS Jeans U. S. A, 1992

The cover of Playboy with Anna Nicole Smith, March 1922

Anna Nicole Smith, 1993

Howard gave her friend everything she wanted: furs, fur coats, jewelry, and EVEN a 44dd chest — all this took millions of dollars. However, a celebrity, then Anna Nicole, came in 1992, when she posed for the cover of Playboy magazine. In 1994 Anna starred in "Naked gun", and critics reacted extremely negatively to her role, noticing the lack of talent, but this fact did not make a woman less desirable in the eyes of men.

After Howard's death in 1995, Anna Nicole's life was mired in scandals. Then Anna becomes a party to the case, "Marshall vs Marshall," where trying to take part of the inheritance the son of a tycoon, starred in a reality show where it goes because of the completeness, it catches the eye of the press under the influence of drugs. In 2006, Anna gives birth to a daughter, and a couple of days from an overdose of methadone and antidepressants, her son Daniel dies. Did it affect the fate of the woman? No, because after 18 days, she marries her daughter's father.

Family happiness did not last long: on February 8, 2007 Anna Nicole Smith was taken away by ambulance after she fainted in the Mall. However, even after the death of Anna Nicole has not escaped the scandals: first, the "whole world" tried to establish the biological father of her daughter among the candidates was even Prince Frederic von Anhalt. Then suspected her husband and lover Smith in forcibly introducing her to drugs. A little later, Antonio Pappano and Maar-Anthony Turnage put on the life of Anna Nicole Smith Opera at the Royal Opera house. As the Director and composer, themselves said, they wanted to show that the life of a woman was not as sweet as everyone wanted to think, because she spent her childhood in poverty.

Photo by Anna Nicole Smith for clothing brand GUESS Jeans U. S. A, 1992

J. Howard Marshall II and Anna Nicole Smith, 1994. Wedding