Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, the controversial new documentary about the late star, is now available to see on Netflix. Anna Nicole’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her baby, Larry Birkhead, has spoken out against the documentary, calling it a “poorly reviewed cesspool.”
But considering the longevity of the ex-model’s public reputation, it’s safe to assume that it will become a Netflix smash and will certainly land in the Top 10 list by the end of the week. Many people have taken to the internet in the wake of the documentary to learn more about Anna Nicole and her life, including who she married and how she got her start in show business.
If you want to know more about her, like her height, we’ve got you covered.
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How Tall Was Anna Nicole Smith?
As reported by Netflix Life, Anna Nicole’s height of 5 feet 11 inches is hardly shocking given her profession as a model, for which she was recognized for her towering stature. Her ex-husband Larry Birkhead is 5’11”, and so was her late son, Daniel Wayne Smith.
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me Doesn’t Even Get Its Own Task
The casual misogyny of early 2000s tabloid culture has been revisited in recent years, inspiring a slew of projects that strive to provide context for the lives of famous women who were objectified, insulted, or otherwise mistreated during their heydays. Several documentaries raised questions about Britney Spears’ conservatorship.
Paris Hilton’s autobiography and documentary disproved long-held assumptions about her and exposed her time spent in facilities for “troubled teens.” It’s abundantly evident that the public has a strong desire for new interpretations of these stories that give the characters more agency and clout. A new Netflix documentary made by Ursula Macfarlane called Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me tries but ultimately fails to change the narrative surrounding the late model and media star.
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Anna Nicole Smith, who was only 39 when she di*d in 2007, passed away from a her0in overd0se. She was a Playboy and Guess model, an actor, a se*Â icon, and the progenitor of the current, famous-for-being-famous celebrity. Smith, a teenager from a tiny town in Texas who was rocketed to prominence thanks to her features, entered the public eye during the “tabloid decade,” making her a great candidate for the sensationalist coverage of the time.
Her high-octane personal life was just as fascinating as her intriguing backstory. The paternity case, in which numerous people (including Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband) claimed paternity of Smith’s daughter, and her romance with an octogenarian billionaire both made headlines.
The press’s constant presence around Smith is a major theme in the new documentary, which opens with a montage of familiar clips: glamour shots sweeping seductively over Smith’s face during a photoshoot; frantic paparazzi footage; and footage of a crowd surrounding her body as it was rolled to an ambulance following her de@th. As a prologue to the film’s efforts to unveil the true Smith, the opening montage is a brief roundup of Smith’s chaotic past, which only serves to emphasize the film’s lurid focus.
Macfarlane reaches back to Smith’s childhood in Mexia, Texas, to try to piece together what happened during his life. The movie follows Vickie Lynn Hogan, an infatuated young girl and subsequently single mother who worked in topless clubs in Houston, through her transformation into the famous model Anna Nicole Smith, who won the prestigious title of Playboy’s 1993 Playmate of the Year. Have a look at the tweet below with regard to Anna Nicole Smith.
Our forever iconđź–¤ #AnnaNicoleSmith #GUESSGirl pic.twitter.com/cmICR6L7ls
— GUESS (@GUESS) May 17, 2023
After marrying oil tycoon and billionaire J. Howard Marshall, Smith became one of the earliest reality TV stars and influencers (before Keeping Up With the Kardashians and flat tummy tea, there was The Anna Nicole Smith Show and TrimSpa), thanks in large part to her title as America’s Most Wanted.
However, the film is just as fixated on Smith’s troubles as the media was for the entirety of the recounting of Smith’s all-American ascension. The documentary is fair to Smith in that it shows that her success was not a fluke but rather the consequence of her own drive and determination. But the film’s portrayal of Smith’s insatiable appetite for cash, sustenance, dr*gs, and se*ual encounters detracts from this aim by making a spectacle of Smith rather than humanizing her.
Even the most personal scenes with Smith in the film fail to challenge viewers’ preconceived views about her. Smith’s angry conversation to Marshall, in which she scolds him for waking her up, lacks background information but is full of foul language.
According to an interview with her former bodyguard, Smith reframed her controversial speech at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards—during which she aroused rumors that she was under the influence and solidified her reputation as an airhead—as a deliberate act on her part to spur media attention. You can also see the official tweet by Pauly Shore below.
Remembering my old friend Anna Nicole-Smith after checking out her documentary on @netflix last night.
She was very fun, sweet, bubbly, and had a great sense of humor.
Miss you, babe.
Your old buddy, Pauly pic.twitter.com/YMO9zjjye8
— Pauly Shore (@PaulyShore) May 17, 2023
Smith was human, thus she had flaws just like everyone else. However, reducing her to the headlines and preconceptions people already associate her with would be a disservice to the story. That woman was stunning. Her notoriety soared. Her flaws ran deep. Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, with its hyper focus on her hardships, is ultimately more of a voyeuristic cautionary tale than an accounting of a complex woman’s humanity, despite the fact that she was also a person.
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