FHM’s eerily prophetic interview with Anna Nicole
FHM’s eerily prophetic interview with Anna Nicole Smith.
“that I’m probably gonna die at 37 like Marilyn.”
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Back in 2004, FHM visited blonde bombshell Anna Nicole Smith at her home in southern California for what would become the July cover story.
The following interview shows the many sides of Anna Nicole Smith, including her inclination to be playful, sexy and emotional all at once. During this time, Anna Nicole Smith revealed that her greatest wish was for people to love her. Now, almost a week after her tragic death, it’s quite clear that the world not only loved Anna Nicole Smith, but that she will always be placed on a pedestal reserved for legends who have passed before their time.
“Shit happens…and then you live,”
Anna Nicole Smith once said. And she’d know. Curled up on a purple leopard print couch in her San Fernando Valley home, Anna Nicole is, well, a little shaky today. Admittedly, so is FHM—Anna Nicole’s house, the place she says she almost never leaves, feels hermetically sealed.
The home is a Marilyn Monroe shrine with photographs and paintings of the ’50s icon everywhere. Even though Anna Nicole’s TV-immortalized poodle Sugar Pie has taken a bite out of FHM’s calf upon our arrival, we’re still happy to be here: This interview had already been canceled four times, with Anna Nicole’s attorney/gofer Howard K. Stern offering excuses ranging from “One of Anna’s dogs had to go to the pet hospital” to “Anna’s just getting over walking pneumonia.” The 36-year-old seems to have made an impressive near recovery. She looks absolutely stunning without a lick of makeup.
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“I’ve got so much on my plate—acting, modeling, movie scripts,” Anna Nicole says, “that I’m probably gonna die at 37 like Marilyn.”
Should she prove prophetic, the former Vicki Lynn Hogan will have packed a full lifetime’s worth of drama into those 37 years. More or less abandoned by her parents and raised by an aunt in dot-on-the-map Mexia, TX, the bombshell dropped out of school in the ninth grade, married a fry cook at 17, was a single mother by 19 and received implanted double-D cups at 21—the better to dance topless at Rick’s Gentlemen’s Club in Houston.
There she met 89-year-old oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall, whom she finally agreed to marry in 1994. Nearly 14 months later, Marshall died and the 26-year-old Anna Nicole was vilified as the world’s most shameless gold digger, despite already having become a phenomenon as the face of Guess Jeans.
After two soap-opera-ready trials, she was awarded $89 million, and nine (so far) grueling years of court costs while battling the appeals of Marshall’s son.
“Just give it to me,” she says of the money. “I’m waitin’.”
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“that I’m probably gonna die at 37 like Marilyn.”












