17 years after Anna Nicole Smith’s death – how her daughter looks like today

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People described Nicole Smith as a potential traffic hazard drivers simply lost focus when they saw her pictures on billboards along the highways.
At the peak of her career Anna Nicole Smith was one of the most recognized people globally and the newspapers couldnt get enough of her. For her part Anna seemed to love the attention.

I love the paparazzi. They take pictures and I just smile away. Ive always liked the attention. I didnt get very much growing up and I always wanted to be you know noticed she once told the Washington Post.
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But of course the life of a mega celebrity had its dark sides.
Her highprofile relationship with petroleum tycoon J. Howard Marshall was the beginning of her downfall. The 63yearold age difference between Anna and her elderly husband raised many eyebrows a lot of people were of the belief that Anna was only interested in Marshall because of his fortune.
The couple married in 1994 but just six months after the ceremony Marshall became ill. He died in 1995 at the age of 90. The loss took a heavy toll on Anna.
A photograph of Anna Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall II sits next to Marshalls casket. Photo by Greg SmithCORBISCorbis via Getty Images
After my husband passed it was really really hard on me Smith told 2020 in 2000.

He knew me when I was nobody and thats what people dont understand and I dont wanna be called a gold digger because Im not. I couldve married him a week after we met or two weeks after we met. I couldve married him years before and I didnt. I didnt. I went out and I made something of myself.
In the following years Anna spent a lot of her time in the courtroom. She fought with Marshalls family over her husbands will. The case went all the way to the U S. Supreme Court in 2006.
Anna Nicole Smith in the court as the probate trial of the estate of her late husband J. Howard Marshall begins in Houston. Photo by F. Carter SmithSygma via Getty Images
Anna Nicole died of an overdose in 2007 but just a few months before that she had given birth to her daughter Dannielynn. Dannielynn was born in New Providence the Bahamas and Anna announced her pregnancy in a video on her