“For anyone old enough to remember Anna Nicole Smith’s heyday, the Netflix documentary ‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me’ doesn’t reveal unknown facets of her life so much as lay them out in one place,” writes Tribune critic Nina_Metz.
Celebrity comes with a cost and Smith certainly experienced her fair share of its downside.Her modeling career wasn’t the springboard she’d hoped for. Her acting career never amounted to much beyond some bit roles. With plenty of interest in her comings and going, but few other career options — plus her tendency to court the paparazzi, plus her marriage to an elderly billionaire she met during her time as an exotic dancer — she was treated as a punchline.
Unlike Pamela Anderson, that other ‘90s-era pinup who also felt the sting of tabloid celebrity and was recently the subject of a Netflix documentary, Smith is not here to tell her own story or reflect on anything in hindsight. So we’re left to rely on old interviews, in which she is vague or evasive about the details of her childhood in small-town Texas.
It’s not that she tried to make it on her own. Quite the opposite. She just had bad instincts about who she surrounded herself with. “She kept looking for somebody else to save her,” is how one of her lawyers puts it. Too often, she infantilized herself, sometimes literally; meeting her estranged father for the first time, she shows up wearing pigtails.
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