Anna always wanted to be like Marilyn, and now, with this eBay art treasure, Vickie Lynn is made entirely of pictures of Norma Jean.

Hundreds of tiny images of Marilyn are formatted to make one 8"x10" image of the late TRIMSPA spokeswoman, buried this past week in the Bahamas.

The seller created the artwork, and promises that no more than 25 will be released. Also sold in jumbo sizes!

Early life

Anna Nicole Smith was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967 in Houston, Texas. She was the only child of Donald Eugene Hogan (born July 12, 1947) and Virgie Mae Tabers (born July 12, 1951), who married on February 22, 1967, although she had several half-siblings. Her father then left the family; he and Tabers divorced on November 4, 1969. Vickie Hogan was raised by her mother and maternal aunt, Elaine Tabers. Virgie Tabers subsequently married Donald R. Hart (1971), Joe D. Thompson (1987), James T. Sanders (1996) and James H. Arthur (2000). After Tabers married Donald R. Hart, Vickie Hogan changed her name to Nikki Hart. Vickie's younger half-sisters are Donna Hogan and Amy Hogan. Her older half-brother is David L. Tacker, Jr., and her younger half-brothers are Donald R. Hart, Jr., and Donald R. Hogan.

Vickie was a student at Durkee Elementary School and Aldine Intermediate School in Houston. She moved from Houston to live with her aunt Kay Beall, Virgie's younger sister, in Mexia, Texas when in the ninth grade. At Mexia High School she failed her freshman year, and dropped out of her sophomore, never progressing past an eighth grade education. While working as a waitress at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Mexia, she met Billy Wayne Smith, who was a cook at the restaurant. The couple married April 4, 1985; she was 17 and he was 16. The next year, she gave birth to their son, Daniel Wayne Smith. She and Billy separated in 1987 and she moved to Houston with one-year-old Daniel. Initially, she found employment at Wal-Mart and later as a waitress at Red Lobster. She became an exotic dancer at a nightclub in Houston.

She was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March 1992

issue of Playboy wearing a low-cut evening gown. Smith said she planned

to be "the next Marilyn Monroe". Becoming one of Playboy's most popular

models, Smith began a trend for a more voluptuous look although her breasts

were surgically enhanced. Smith was chosen to be the 1993 Playmate of the Year.

By the time of her PMOY pictorial, she had settled on the name Anna Nicole Smith.

Smith secured a contract to replace supermodel Claudia Schiffer in the Guess

jeans ad campaign in a series of sultry black and white photographs. Guess

capitalized on Smith's strong resemblance to sex symbol Jayne Mansfield and

put her in Jayne-inspired photo sessions. In 1993, before

Christmas, she modelled for the Swedish clothing company Hennes & Mauritz H&M.

She was dressed in underwear and arranged in seductive poses. She appeared on

big posters in Sweden and Norway. The fact was widely discussed in media and more.

A photograph of Anna was used by New York magazine on the cover of its

August 22, 1994 issue titled White Trash Nation. In the photo, she appears

squatting in a short skirt and cowboy boots as she eats chips. In October 1994,

Smith's lawyer initiated a $5,000,000 lawsuit against the magazine claiming

unauthorized use of her photo and that the article had damaged her reputation.

Her lawyer said that Smith was told she was being photographed to embody the

"All-American-woman look" and that they wanted glamour shots. He further

stated that the picture used was taken for fun during a break.

elderly oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall and they began a relationship.

During their two-year relationship, he reportedly lavished gifts on her

and asked her to marry him several times. She divorced her husband Billy on

February 3, 1993, in Houston. On June 27, 1994, Smith, 26, and Marshall,

89, married in Houston. This resulted in a great deal of gossip about her

marrying him for his money. Though she reportedly never lived with him,

Smith maintained she loved her husband and that age did not matter to her.

Thirteen months after his marriage to Smith, Marshall died on August 4, 1995,

in Houston.

she was pregnant. "Let me stop all the rumors," she said, while floating on an

inflatable raft in a swimming pool. "Yes, I am pregnant. I'm happy, I'm very, very

happy about it. Everything's goin' really, really good and I'll be checking in

and out periodically on the web, and I'll let you see me as I'm growing."

Though her announcement did not provide any details, in an interview with

Larry King on CNN's Larry King Live, Smith's longtime personal attorney Howard

K. Stern said that he and Smith had been in a secret relationship for "a very

long time" and then appeared to contradict that contention when he said they

were confident he fathered the baby because of the timing of the pregnancy,

which appeared to imply that there was at least one other possible father.

Her ex-boyfriend, entertainment photojournalist Larry Birkhead, steadfastly

maintained his contention that he is the baby's father and filed a lawsuit to

challenge paternity.

Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, was born September 7, 2006,

at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. The Bahamian birth certificate records

the father as Howard K. Stern.

A California judge on February 9, 2007 ordered that Smith's body be

preserved until February 20, 2007 so that a hearing in the paternity

dispute over her 5-month-old daughter can be held. If Smith left

no will and was not legally married to Stern, then her child will

most likely receive her assets. In a Florida court to decide Anna’s

final resting place, the matter of paternity was also to be settled.

Larry Birkhead petitoned the court to ask Howard K. Stern to submit

to a DNA test on Feb. 20, 2007 but at the time Stern stated he was not

willing to do so in a closed conference with Judge Seidlin.

The judge has put off the paternity question until after the issue

of the location of Anna’s burial is decided.

At the request of Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Virgie Arthur,

a Bahamian judge issued a temporary injunction on February 13, 2007,

preventing Howard K. Stern from taking Anna Nicole Smith's daughter

Dannielynn out of the Bahamas.

Final resting place

There is also a court case over the body of Anna Nicole Smith, Anna’s mother,

Virgie Arthur, wants the body to be buried near her family in Texas.

Her longtime boyfriend and lawyer Howard K. Stern wants her to be buried

in the Bahamas next to her son Daniel. Richard Milstein, guardian ad

litem to Smith's daughter Dannielynn, wants the court to settle the paternity

case first and then have Dannielynn’s biological father decide where

Anna should be buried. On February 20, 2007 the court

heard from Florida county medical examiner Joshua Perper that her body’s rate

of decomposition is faster than expected. Perper advised that any viewing of

the body be done locally to preserve “the optimal condition”, as “The face of

the deceased might show color change.” Broward County Circuit Judge Larry

Seidlin who had anticipated a few weeks of argument on the case determined to

speed things up, declaring “The court is going to enter a decision by the end of

the week, let the chips fall where they may.” Lawyers and family members

began working immediately to arrange a viewing, either at the medical examiner's

office or a local funeral parlor.

Bahama mansion

A dispute has arisen regarding the ownership of the mansion in the Bahamas

where she last resided which has caused the locks of the estate to be

changed a number of times.

Will

According to Smith's will, which was released to the media on February 16

by a Florida Court, she left everything to her son Daniel, who died in

September 2006. She named Howard K. Stern as the executor. The document is

dated July 30, 2001, and was not updated after then. The lawyer for Smith's

estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, said the will was not filed in any court,

so it is not valid.