By the time Vickie Lynn Hogan was twenty-six, she had made a name for herself, having modelled for Guess jeans and appeared on the cover of Playboy. The name was Anna Nicole Smith. A native of Houston, Texas, Smith worked at a fried-chicken restaurant (the cook became her . . . (Subscription required.)
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on September 2, 2013