"The Manifest Destiny of Anna Nicole Smith"
Essay
By: Lisa Carver
Date: 1996
Source: Carver, Lisa. "The Manifest Destiny of Anna Nicole Smith." In Dancing Queen: The Lusty Adventures of Lisa Crystal Carver. New York: Henry Holt, 1996, 133–137.
About the Author: Lisa Carver (1969–) grew up in Dover, New Hampshire, and worked as a performance artist in the 1980s. Her self-published Rollerderby was one of the most popular "zines" of the 1990s, with essays on popular culture, class relations, and sex. Carver's work also appeared on the Internet website Nerve.com. The subject of Carver's essay, Anna Nicole Smith, was born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Mexia, Texas, in 1967. After a brief teenage marriage, Smith worked as a stripper in Houston and appeared in Playboy magazine in 1992. The following year she was named Playmate of the Year, modeled for Guess? jeans, and began a film career....
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