Anna Nicole Smith has become a
household name. But that was not always
the case. She was born as Vickie Lynn
Hogan and grew up about 80 miles south of Dallas,Texas.
She was raised by her mother and, at age 17,
she married Billy Smith, age 16, a cook at the restaurant where she
worked. She divorced Smith after a brief
marriage which produced her son, Daniel. She worked various jobs to support herself and Daniel, including as an
exotic dancer in a Houston
nightclub, where she was known as “Anna Nicole,” as well as other stage
names. It was here that she met J.
Howard Marshall, a frequent customer at the club.