Contributed by Louie Tacker

I feel compelled to write about this, although the story is not so fresh anymore. But I just want to go over some highlights.

I for one, have always been rather unimpressed with Anna Nicole Smith and any so called “Hollywood people.” (Please see related entry Stars or Snobs.) But when you live in America, you can’t help but know about them.

Please don’t find this cold or heartless, but I believe Anna Nicole chose the path she trod. She went down, worked, or should I say - manipulated her way out of the backwoods, used her looks to get acclaim and fame. She was successful in how she carved her life of glitter though, while landing on sexy spreads in magazines and making the ‘greatest conquest’ when a man, old enough to be his grandfather married her and gave her over eight million in real estate property while he was alive.

There is no problem about that, actually. It’s the way of life she chose. In my opinion however, what she failed to consider were the consequences of her lifestyle. I believe that when you choose such path, you should be strong enough to take all that comes with it. You must consider what it will do to your children, family and private life.

Talent wise, Ana Nicole clearly was wanting in this area. I had the chance to view her reality TV shows however, and I could say she got the aura and charisma that the public loved to follow, though there were those who would inject some mockery or ridicule about her. I found those ridiculing him poking not humor but fun at her. People laughed when they watched her shows, but I realized they laughed not with her, but at her.

I felt embarrassed for her. But my real pain was in seeing what her teenage boy was going through, seeing her mother going such way. I could tell how uncomfortable he was while being filmed. He seemed to be a quiet kid, nice and polite - which made me sadder for him as he watched his mom stumble around on camera, seemingly stoned and slurring while people watched and laughed at how she would make a fool of herself. When interviewed about the image she projected to the public and how it could have affected her family, she just said she didn’t care because it was all about the money and fame.

I hate to speak somewhat unkindly of the deceased but just someone dies does not change who they were and what they did in life. Neither do I want to appear judgmental of others. I only speak of what is evident, seen and witnessed by the eyes. Anna, in my view, was instrumental in the devastation of her poor boy’s life. He suffered embarrassment from his mother’s wilful behavior and her apparent lack of care about people’s impression.

When you bring your children to the world and raise them, you should have the responsibility of protecting them from any physical, psychological and emotional hurts. You should not be flaunting them in public without regard of their own privacy. But look, there are even talks she allowed pictures of her dead son’s body to be sold to the media. And I can’t help but wonder if there is some truth too in the claim that she even encouraged her son to turn to drugs to numb his senses of the pain he was suffering from. Of course, I am in no position to claim authenticity to this. I only echo what are quoted in media threads.

Anna Nicole Smith is now gone, bless her soul. It is sad though, that even in death she still hauls her family to shame. The next victim of embarrassment is her baby whose paternity is now being claimed by three different men. Under this paternal claims may lurk vested intent over the inheritance of the baby from the fortune her mother left. Again, my heart goes out to this poor little, innocent thing. Something must be done for her. She must be given the chance to live a more normal life, unlike that which her mother and brother suffered in their brief lifetime. What can be done probably is for her to have a family, most likely an adoptive family who won’t put a tag price on their filial relations with the girl.

Very sad. Anna Nicole is now dead, but her life will long linger in the veins of media and in the halls of courtrooms. There are issues she left that cannot die as suddenly as she did. What I am only hoping for is for these controversies not to affect an emerging life - the life of her baby girl. For which, I beg the media and the public to be merciful enough to rescue this baby from the shame and embarrassment. The media had juiced out Anna’s life for ratings and earnings. Hopefully they will take mercy on this God’s little angel - Anna’s baby.