Scant hours after news emerged
of her death Thursday at age
39, many people were hard
pressed to describe what
exactly Anna Nicole Smith was.
Actress? Model? Reality star?
Rich widow? 'I don't know
exactly what she did,' said
talk show host Joy Behar,
hearing the news over the
phone. And yet, trying to put
her finger on why w
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Scant hours after news emerged
of her death Thursday at age
39, many people were hard
pressed to describe what
exactly Anna Nicole Smith was.
Actress? Model? Reality star?
Rich widow? 'I don't know
exactly what she did,' said
talk show host Joy Behar,
hearing the news over the
phone. And yet, trying to put
her finger on why we watched
this strange woman over the
years, she came up with two
things: Dysfunction. And
beauty.'No question, she was
beautiful,' said Behar, of
ABC's 'The View.' 'We know
people like to watch
dysfunction. But beauty gives
you something extra to look
at. Dysfunction and beauty:
Now that's something to
watch.'How was she
dysfunctional? Really, how
wasn't she? Her strange life
seemed to veer from one
outsized struggle to another.
She struggled famously with
her weight and with her
family. She sometimes even
struggled to speak without
slurring. She had a TV show
that could be so embarrassing
you'd want to watch it with
dark sunglasses on. Much more
tragically, she lost her
20-year-old son. Five months
ago she had a baby daughter
and now two men claim to be
the father.In other words, she
was a perfect pop culture
icon. the new law would be
deemed illegal.

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