Anna Nicole Smith - Dead...

From the outside it's hard to understand why someone who was once a guess jeans model, a playboy bunny, an E Channel reality tv star, a movie star, a PETA & Trimspa spokesperson and a billionaires widow could wake up every day feeling depressed, or wanting to escape the reality of her life through drugs.

Forbes has previously estimated that the 89 year old oil tycoon husband was worth about $550 MILLION when he died, and there was talk of his entire estate being worth about $1.6 BILLION.

When you have been compared as a look-a-like to "Jayne Mansfield" & "Marilyn Monroe" & have led a life that is outside of the norm, you're not *supposed* to be depressed, or feel unhappy about yourself. You're not supposed to self medicate with drugs and alcohol. When you're being ridiculed & taunted for your lifestyle, your choices, your 80lb + weight gains and losses; slurring your speech publicly during various interviews doesn't seem like such a big deal. I'd probably drink a few before going on stage at the MTV award show.

Now perhaps, if she'd stayed the girl who dropped out of high school in 11th grade, who'd worked at a fried chicken joint & Walmart, gotten knocked up and began a "career" working as a stripper, raising a kid on her own, AND been a nobody, THEN people agree that yeah you've got a right to be depressed, and don't really give a shit what it is you're shoving up your nose, or injesting like M&M's. In fact, that's almost accepted more by society.

To say that she's had a rough year or so, would be an understatment. Just 5 months ago was the birth of her daughter, and just 3 days after that, the death of her son. Less than 2 weeks later she "marries" Howard K Stern - her longtime "attorney" (not Sirius Radio shock jock). She's living in a home that is apparantly not hers, and there is talk of eviction. She's had to pay for various law suits, and has never yet collected on the old man's money. The paternity of her daughter is in question with Larry Birkhead claiming that the baby is his daughter. Anna Nichole's mother went on tv and claimed that Stern had something to do with Anna's sons death. Supermarket rags are probably standing by to publish photos of her, dead, being carried out of the hotel and from the autopsy that will no doubt be carried out. There's probably a hunt on right this minute to find her daughter, and splash her all over the media...

Now all that would make anyone depressed.