anna nicole smith is dead

[lucky13]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...ses/index.html


i was just coming in from my car and i heard on the radio that she collapsed. now, she is dead.

[whiteyfunn]

I know!! I am in shock. I wonder if she was on drugs...

[steele mama]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...ses/index.html


i was just coming in from my car and i heard on the radio that she collapsed. now, she is dead.

I just saw it myself. What a sad life and lady. So sad for the sweet baby girl. Hopefully one of the dads will be a good daddy.

[DD]

Oh my!! How horrible! I was just thinking the other day when I was watching "Extra" or one of those shows that she seemed so dazed....
sad.

[kathydwells]

A sad end to a sad life. She was beautiful I thought. But she alway's seemed so tortured. I know that her son was her life and that probably his death was the last straw for her. I hope she is finally at peace.

[ckhagen]

I feel so terrible for her baby.
No baby should have to grow up without her mother. So traumatizing

[AugustInTransit]

In Hollywood, Florida.

Who'd guess?

[lucky13]

It is sad on so many levels.

PS--sorry i posted this twice. I don't know how to delete the other thread! Computer issues today.

[Johnrudy]

It is so bizarre and so sad! I wasn't a fan of ANS but now that she's gone, I feel such pity for her life - - even tho she brought most of this on. There's so much speculation going on right now on CNN.

[audie]

i've always thought she was pitiful, just begging for attention. terrible thing for the baby, that's for sure....

[DD]

It is so bizarre and so sad! I wasn't a fan of ANS but now that she's gone, I feel such pity for her life - - even tho she brought most of this on. There's so much speculation going on right now on CNN.

There's some really nasty comments on MSN blog....sad.

[seagrovelover]

I heard this in the car on the way to school.......she died in a casino in Florida? thats what the news said, how sad for her child.....I am wondering if it was a suicide of some sort....overdose or something like that?? what a shame....the media was on her constantly.

[iwishiwasthere]

It is sad on so many levels.

PS--sorry i posted this twice. I don't know how to delete the other thread! Computer issues today.

Ask Daddy O...he helped me a while back when I posted twice.

[dbuck]

She seemed to always be looking for something beyond her reach and with the death of her son, I think it was just more than she could handle.
"Tortured soul" seems to be a the right way to describe her.

[pgurney]

I find this so sad.

• In court for years over her late husband's money,

• Son dying a few months ago, at the same time her baby was born,

• Court case over late husband's money is now going to Supreme Court,

• Battles during the recent months over paternity of her daughter,

• Her and TrimSpa recently being sued over false claims,

• and maybe a little post-partum depression going on in addition.

That's a lot to take. I truly hope and pray she's resting peacefully now.

[DD]

I find this so sad.

• In court for years over her late husband's money,

• Son dying a few months ago, at the same time her baby was born,

• Court case over late husband's money is now going to Supreme Court,

• Battles during the recent months over paternity of her daughter,

• Her and TrimSpa recently being sued over false claims,

• and maybe a little post-partum depression going on in addition.

That's a lot to take. I truly hope and pray she's resting peacefully now.

well said, pg.

[lindatat]

All I can say is pray for that baby so she doesn't end up a lost soul like her mother. If this story isn't proof that money can't buy happiness, I don't know what is.

[AugustInTransit]

She seemed to always be looking for something beyond her reach and with the death of her son, I think it was just more than she could handle.
"Tortured soul" seems to be a the right way to describe her.

It's like my sister said, grief can really tear up a person's body.

[seagrovelover]

AIT.....well said, it's losing a child that seems to be the breaking point ....my mother in law is dangerously close to never getting over the loss of her daughter and never getting her life back , it's killing me to watch her go through this deep depression. If you have seen the interview Anna did in November, you can see the grief on her face and hear it in her voice, it's just so sad.

[drunkkenartist]

Just simply tragic. Now the battle over the baby will intensify 10 fold. Who else will crawl out of the woodwork claiming to be the father? I myself was never a "fan", but I felt for her when her son died just after she had her new baby.
How horrible must it be to have a baby, and not be able to "enjoy" the moment, because you're grieving over your son, who up till then, had been the only true love of your life? I think Post-Partum depression is only the tip of the ice burg. Sure a lot of her problems were brought on by her, but also by her manager/husband/cover-up whatever he was.
If I were the father of that baby I'd take her out of the country, set up a trust fund, and go into hiding. That poor kid.

[audie]

Just simply tragic. Now the battle over the baby will intensify 10 fold. Who else will crawl out of the woodwork claiming to be the father? I myself was never a "fan", but I felt for her when her son died just after she had her new baby.
How horrible must it be to have a baby, and not be able to "enjoy" the moment, because you're grieving over your son, who up till then, had been the only true love of your life? I think Post-Partum depression is only the tip of the ice burg. Sure a lot of her problems were brought on by her, but also by her manager/husband/cover-up whatever he was.
If I were the father of that baby I'd take her out of the country, set up a trust fund, and go into hiding. That poor kid.

i'm with you -i was never a huge fan of hers, but she had more than her fair share to deal with in life too. who knows, maybe she really did love the old fella she married, and has been suffering from that all these years. i just can't imagine anything worse than having every single aspect of your life known to the public.

[Beach Runner]

CNN had all sorts of conjectures -- overuse of antidepressants, weight loss drugs, excessive weight loss in a short amount of time, pulmonary embolism (apparently she had pneumonia), undiagnosed congenital heart problem, etc.

I guess the autopsy will answer the speculation.

It's amazing how pop culture is so interesting to many of us.

[audie]

CNN had all sorts of conjectures -- overuse of antidepressants, weight loss drugs, excessive weight loss in a short amount of time, pulmonary embolism (apparently she had pneumonia), undiagnosed congenital heart problem, etc.

I guess the autopsy will answer the speculation.

It's amazing how pop culture is so interesting to many of us.

cnn was making a big deal because the e.r. or paramedics one gave her some narcan which is used in overdoses a lot. the hospital where i work uses it all the time when a youngish person like that is brought in unresponsive for no reason, basicly trying anything they can to get them to respond. the reporters were automatically insinuating she had overdosed because of this....they are losing sight of the fact that a poor little baby lost her mother today...

[Beach Runner]

cnn was making a big deal because the e.r. or paramedics one gave her some narcan which is used in overdoses a lot. the hospital where i work uses it all the time when a youngish person like that is brought in unresponsive for no reason, basicly trying anything they can to get them to respond. the reporters were automatically insinuating she had overdosed because of this....they are losing sight of the fact that a poor little baby lost her mother today...

Never heard of narcan (gotta Google it), although Beach Jacket said perezhilton.com was talking about that.

[audie]

Never heard of narcan (gotta Google it), although Beach Jacket said perezhilton.com was talking about that.

narcan - from webmd.com

[Mermaid]

An article from the San Diego newspaper:

By Jocelyn Noveck
ASSOCIATED PRESS

4:20 p.m. February 8, 2007

NEW YORK – Anybody who arrived from Mars and wanted to know what all the fuss was over this Anna Nicole Smith would do well to watch just one clip: her appearance at the 2004 American Music Awards.

Prancing onstage in a tight-fitting black gown that showcased her cleavage – which was, as all else about her, larger than life – she grabbed your attention. Her looks were outlandish, but there was beauty beneath the excess.

And then she spoke. “Like my body?” she asked, tracing her fingers over her breasts. Her slurred words spilled out dangerously. She was clearly very high on something, and you wondered if she would survive, literally.

It was hard to watch. And, of course, harder not to.

Scant hours after news emerged of her death Thursday at age 39, many people were hard pressed to describe what exactly Anna Nicole Smith was. Actress? Model? Reality star? Rich widow? “I don't know exactly what she did,” said talk show host Joy Behar, hearing the news over the phone. And yet, trying to put her finger on why we watched this strange woman over the years, she came up with two things: Dysfunction. And beauty.

“No question, she was beautiful,” said Behar, of ABC's “The View.” “We know people like to watch dysfunction. But beauty gives you something extra to look at. Dysfunction and beauty: Now that's something to watch.”

How was she dysfunctional? Really, how wasn't she? Her strange life seemed to veer from one outsized struggle to another. She struggled famously with her weight and with her family. She sometimes even struggled to speak without slurring. She had a TV show that could be so embarrassing you'd want to watch it with dark sunglasses on. Much more tragically, she lost her 20-year-old son. Five months ago she had a baby daughter and now two men claim to be the father.
In other words, she was a perfect pop culture icon. By contrast, another famous creature of Internet celebrity, the chic-er, more sophisticated and chillier Paris Hilton, has much less to fascinate us, grainy sex video notwithstanding. It's hard to feel sorry for her.

“With Anna Nicole, she was pathetic but at the same time you thought, 'Gosh, if I could just scoop you up and fix things, it would be OK,'” said Jerry Herron, a professor of American culture at Wayne State University. “You wouldn't want to scoop up Paris Hilton.'”

“Anna Nicole was,” Herron noted, “in both her actions and her physical being, such an over-exaggerated version of what we both lust for and loathe in our society. Bombshell blonde? Family feuds? Lots and lots of money? Weight troubles? Obscene self-revelations on TV? She had it all.”
The compelling mix of beauty and vulnerability is just one quality that has led to comparisons with Marilyn Monroe, another sexy, tragic blonde who Smith liked to compare herself to. The comparison is tempting, but the difference is monumental.

“Marilyn Monroe was an artist, a real performer, able to evoke in audiences a real empathy and a passion,” said Richard Walter, a film professor at UCLA. “There is NO comparison.” And yet he sees one strong point in common: the simple beginnings, the climb from total obscurity to fame.
“She came from humble origins and achieved celebrity and wealth, one way or another,” Walter said. “And that is an American story.”

For celebrity editor Janice Min of US Weekly, it's the element of perseverance that stands out in Smith's tale, which she sees as “almost this perverse Hollywood Horatio Alger story.”
“She fought against so many obstacles – poverty. Teen pregnancy. A bad home life.” And of course, ridicule. “But she persisted, where others would have shrunk away out of humiliation and shame.”

It might have made her look pathetic. But it also made it exceedingly hard to look away.

[audie]

larry king was talking about how she showed up for a couple of his interviews drunk, and how embarrassed he was for her...

[Mermaid]

larry king was talking about how she showed up for a couple of his interviews drunk, and how embarrassed he was for her...

Remember her show? Sometimes it was like watching a train wreck about to happen, but even still there was always something about her that made you want to be on her side. What do you call that, when you're empathetic?

[audie]

Remember her show? Sometimes it was like watching a train wreck about to happen, but even still there was always something about her that made you want to be on her side. What do you call that, when you're empathetic?

i never saw her show, i wasn't that brave, but mr audie watched it some....gee i wonder why ?

[DD]

Remember her show? Sometimes it was like watching a train wreck about to happen, but even still there was always something about her that made you want to be on her side. What do you call that, when you're empathetic?

I do remember her show...and I felt that very emotion when I watched it. I always gave her credit for hanging in there--perserverance--like the article said.

[Kimmifunn]

Never heard of narcan (gotta Google it), although Beach Jacket said perezhilton.com was talking about that.

It's sad...I go to Perez for all my news.

[Smiling JOe]

She seemed to always be looking for something beyond her reach and with the death of her son, I think it was just more than she could handle.
"Tortured soul" seems to be a the right way to describe her.

dbuck, that is the best analysis which I've read. Drugs and money are not the answer to happiness. Life is only what you make of it.

My personal thought is that it is going to be a terrible mess for this little girl to grow up. She will have some major troubles in her life due to many things, but in particular, her brother committing suicide, and the unusual death of her mom, which we will probably discover to be suicide/drug overdose. I think the most interesting part of this news story is that it is a news story.

[Cheering472]

It is certainly sad for her daughter to not have a mother. But the real tragedy was Anna's tortured life. Very little real happiness and all that sorrow in such a short life. I hope she's at peace now and her baby grows up in a happier place. Rest Anna.

[audie]

i hope anna didn't have some type of inherited mental condition that both her kids got - that would be awful... i see they are starting her autopsy now.

[ShallowsNole]

Her son had an accidental suicide - at least, due to the circumstances, it is believed to be accidental. Methadone, Lexapro and Zoloft. I know you're not supposed to mix Lexapro and Zoloft, and Methadone is heavy-duty.

I'm suspecting the same thing for her. Plus, they have said there were narcotics found in her room.

[kathydwells]

Her son had an accidental suicide - at least, due to the circumstances, it is believed to be accidental. Methadone, Lexapro and Zoloft. I know you're not supposed to mix Lexapro and Zoloft, and Methadone is heavy-duty.

I'm suspecting the same thing for her. Plus, they have said there were narcotics found in her room.

And that like the day her son died, Howard K. Stern was in the room. Several witnesses have said that they witnessed him flushing Methadone down the toilet after Anna died. Perhaps coincidence that he was with both of them when they died and he stands to gain a great deal of money if in fact Danielynn is his child.

[kathydwells]

The plot thickens. Click.

[audie]

they still don't know why she died.....even after the autopsy

[Cheering472]

This is turning into a circus. Do none of these people understand the proper usage of latex? If she was having unprotected sex with all these men at that time, I hate to think what all was being passed around.

[Johnrudy]

Do you suppose NASA is thankful the media has turned their attention elsewhere??

[DD]

Do you suppose NASA is thankful the media has turned their attention elsewhere??

I read that on some blog somewhere....

[ShallowsNole]

The plot thickens. Click.

Oh Dear God. That's just wrong.

[Johnrudy]

Oh Dear God. That's just wrong.

No kidding - - & who whould've ever thunk it! I mean, Zha-Zha's husband! Dear lord...

[lindatat]

This is turning into a circus. Do none of these people understand the proper usage of latex? If she was having unprotected sex with all these men at that time, I hate to think what all was being passed around.

Amen.

[Biff]

What ever happened to Tara Grinstead

[Beach Runner]

Also,"HIP-HOP IS DEAD", according to Nas' sample of Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (from *my* generation).

[audie]

hmmmm maybe nasa had their astronut do this to draw attention away from her ?

[Beach Runner]

hmmmm maybe nasa had their astronut do this to draw attention away from her ?

No, the Nas sample "Hip-Hop Is Dead" happened way before the Anna Nicole thing. It's just kind of coincidental.

[lindatat]

hmmmm maybe nasa had their astronut do this to draw attention away from her ?

The latest conspiracy theory is that Nasa had Anna Nicole killed to draw the media attention away from their astronaut (speaking of which, I heard a song on the radio tonight - a parody of the Beatles "A Little Help From My Friends." The chorus was, "I Stay Dry with a Little Help From Depends.")

[audie]

The latest conspiracy theory is that Nasa had Anna Nicole killed to draw the media attention away from their astronaut (speaking of which, I heard a song on the radio tonight - a parody of the Beatles "A Little Help From My Friends." The chorus was, "I Stay Dry with a Little Help From Depends.")

all i can say is ..... it worked .....