Anyone Watching Netflix’s Anna Nicole Documentary?

She was a lesbian?

Daddy NO!!

Cesspool!

What took so long? Loved Anna, even though she was mess. She wasn't stupid though. I can't imagine finding your son dead in a Hospital room after you just gave birth. Heartbreaking.

R1 ?

It looks depressing. Pass.

Watching now. I was around here looking for a thread. I always love the climb parts of these stories—Playboy, Guess, etc.—but the way down is depressing.

Take several seats, Anna Nicole. Tatum will always have a more fucked up relationship with her dad than you could ever wish for.

Say what you want, but she was ethereal looking back in the 90's.

That a studio never tried to make her into a Gina Lollobrigida, Brigit Bardot type of sex symbol has always been baffling.

"Smith was a baby when Hogan was kicked out of the house for raping Smith's aunt, who was 10 years old at the time. After pleading guilty and spending six months in jail, he started a new family. Donna Hogan, Smith's half-sister, alleges in her 2007 book Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith that Hogan was a violent alcoholic who "abused all the other women in his life, including me, his own daughter."

Anna Nicole hired a detective to track down her dad. Obviously it was a no-brainer to fly her sex-criminal father, and a half-brother whom she'd never met, to join her at her wholesome Playmate of the Year celebration at the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles. What a perfect locale, a perfect moment for a reunion with a child rapist.

And how shocking and sad it must have been when her father then tried to rail her inside the mansion after the party. I mean, she was wearing pasties, her nipples weren't even exposed!

Donnie, the half-brother, has called his father a "monster."

Go for it!

R9 I thought it was interesting how she turned down the lead female role (Cameron Diaz) in The Mask to do basically a gimmicky Zsa Zsa Gabor-type role in Naked Gun 33 1/3 because The Mask was only offering $50,000. If she had done The Mask she may have had more film opportunities..

R10 Sober up

WHET Howard K. Stern?

I’d the disgusting junky lawyer in the doc?

*is.

Did he get thrown in prison, R14? He was a nightmare.

I always think of Anna Nicole and Brittany Murphy in the same way: If only someone had called 911 instead of trying to treat serious illnesses at home, they both might be alive today. I think Anna Nicole was septic from her injection site and I believe Brittany Murphy had pneumonia. Both also surrounded by shady people.

This shitty doc was made with the Howard K Stern family! They have photos, video... Howard's ugly sister is interviewed. Every point is pro Howard. “Howard didn’t do nothing wrong! Not his fault!” The entire cast of the doc shit talks Anna when they stop getting their way. Wow! This was shitty. Anyone who wouldn’t be in the doc is shit talked.

[quote] She was a lesbian?

Bisexual, I guess, but she loved women BIG TIME sexually and emotionally.

R1, is you watched that show you would know that Anna was forced into anything. She was manipulative to everyone. People who blame him are idiots. She was a train wreck long before he was ever around.

[quote] Howard didn’t do nothing wrong!

Oh, dear.

Birkhead seemingly has done a good job raising their daughter.

Birkhead has seemingly done a good job raising their daughter. In fact, her daughter would have probably ended up like Whitney’s had Anna Nicole lived. She now at least stands a chance of having a happy life.

A piece of shit documentary made from the side of the lawyer Howard K Stern. Scummy!

R20 How do you know?

So was she a sociopath?

I'm always interested in the psychology of angry nutjobs like r19. That nutjobbery seems very common in people who worship famous women. Did you live vicariously in your sad little fantasies through her or something?This woman was not a child. She was a manipulative, lying drug addict with a severe personality disorder who had repeatedly overdosed prior to contact with stern. Imagine being so crazy that you even blame stern's sibling, who had nothing but kind things to say about Smith. I've noticed among you types a bizarre hatred of anyone even near your object of worship for not " saving" them.

R28 agreed. And don’t forget about how she lied about her mother raping and abusing her, when in reality her mother was a cop who got her and her girlfriend out of trouble all the time. She stole her girlfriend’s childhood trauma and made it her own.

I watched the whole documentary and had no sympathy for her. Felt sorry for her son. Glad her daughter is being raised by Birkhead.

R29 That was pretty shocking. I think the doc wanted to find a troubled, gentle soul and found a straight up sociopath. The girlfriend seemed very sweet and intelligent. I was more interested in her journey tbh.

R29 When you say girlfriend, do you mean a female friend or did she actually dated a girl?

r31 - she dated her. apparently a bisexual sociopath.

Agree that the girlfriend was more interesting and articulate than Anna Nicole.

Zaslav may as well just buy Netflix, that's how fucking trashy and basic it's become.

R31 a bisexual sociopath? Anna or the girlfriend?

R34 I'm not r31 but they were undoubtedly referring to Anna as the sociopath. Watching the doc that was the distinct vibe I got. Not saying that the people around her weren't gross as well but Anna seemed straight up ASPD. Which was quite interesting because it goes against the cultural depiction a lot of people always have of tragic but good hearted female sex symbols. The ex gf seemed pretty normal and empathetic but obviously still a bit in love with Smith.

R35 Thank you

Please give examples of her sociopathy? Aside from grifting the old millionaire.

I’m very curious but don’t have Netflix.

I haven't seen it, but I remember the Dark Roots documentary, and the E! True Hollywood Story. Using google, I found out her cousin Melinda Hudson died in 2021 at age 42. (She's the sister of "Cousin Shelly" from the Anna Nicole Show)

I was a child of the 2000s and mainly remember Anna Nicole from her ubiquitous TrimSpa advertisements. She played up the guileless bimbo role to the hilt—a real modern day Jayne Mansfield. During her last 5 years or so, she seemed to be in on the joke as long is at made for a paycheck. I watched the documentary and found it interesting. I didn't get the impression that she was a sociopath. An opportunist, yes, but I think at the end of the day, I think she was simply an addict who found herself in a series of "right place, right time" situations (or "wrong place, wrong time", depending on how you look at it) and seized the opportunities.

Unlike a lot of Hollywood whores, Anna was always naturally beautiful. The childhood photos of her in the documentary were adorable—she was cute as a button, and grew into a very attractive woman. Like most damaged people with a pretty face, she really didn't have a chance in a place like Hollywood. She had her finger on the "self destruct" button long before she ever left Texas.

There was a point where they are interviewing paparazzi and the guy is talking about secretly gay actors who have carefully crafted pr images or whatever and they show footage of Leo DiCaprio as he’s talking.

I wonder if Dannielynn has any contact with Anna's mother, her maternal grandmother. I remember seeing some doc where Larry Birkhead takes his daughter to Texas to see where Anna was from, but no mention of visiting family.

R41 Virgie died in 2018.

[quote] if Dannielynn has any contact with Anna's mother

Isn’t cousin Shelleys daughter missing?

I loved Anna Nicole. She was a fascinating trip.

She seemed lazy and undisciplined. She put on all that weight, then took a bunch of diet pills to lose the weight.

On her show, she was kissing Margaret Cho and her assistant, Kim(?).

Howard K. Stern is now a public defender. I think he was acquitted of charges with regard to ANS. He gave me the creeps.

I'm sad to hear Melinda passed.

She seemed real sweet in Dark Roots.

COVID?

How does her ex girlfriend looks like?