The Anna Nicole Smith who boasted a 42-26-38 figure at her most outrageous and became an object of lust and desire to legions of American men was not born - she was made.
The real Smith started out in podunk Texas as flat-chested, dark-haired, unlovely Vickie Lynn Hogan with an abusive father, a hapless mother - and zero prospects.
How Smith managed to defy both her circumstances and Mother Nature and transform herself from Texas trailer trash into an international sex symbol is the subject of a scathing unpublished biography by writer Stacy Brown with the late sexpot's half-sister, Donna Hogan.
It's appropriately entitled "Train Wreck."
The 39-year-old former Playboy playmate was the face and figure of TrimSpa and claimed the diet pills helped her shed 69 pounds. But that too was a lie, the book insists.
"While Anna Nicole collects big money as the spokeswoman for a diet program she claims slimmed her from dowdy to supermodel-thin, sister Donna has evidence of the real route to skinniness: photos of Anna's liposuction," according to the book's intro.
Smith's many surgeries "make her look like chopped liver" and "threatened to send [her] to a psychiatrist," the book continues.
Those assertions were buttressed Friday by Broward County coroner Joshua Perper, who performed the autopsy on Smith after she died in a Florida hotel room.
Smith's body, Perper said, "showed some indication of scarring from plastic surgery, but nothing recent."
