viktor_haag | RIP Anna Nicole

So, apparently, Anna Nicole Smith died yesterday at age 39. I can't say I was a huge fan, but I can say that she seems to have been the absolute poster child for the Cult Of Celebrity. Here's pretty much what you need to know about her, yoinked from the Globe and Mail (actually written by Suzette Laboy of AP):

Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children. Her parents split up when she was a toddler, and she was raised by her mother, a deputy sheriff.

She dropped out after 11th grade after she was expelled for fighting, and worked as a waitress and then a cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken restaurant in Mexia.

She married 16-year-old fry cook Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel [who predeceased her last year, at age 20] before divorcing two years later.

Then she got "discovered".

Already the sharks are circling around her five-month old daughter (sic) who is worth approximately 88 million bucks (sic sic) as there seems to be some discussion about the little tyke's paternity.