Showing posts with label Anna Nicole Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anna Nicole Smith. Show all posts

Thursday, February 08, 2007

here's the thing

Obviously, many people in and out of the blogosphere will be commenting on the death of Anna Nicole Smith in the coming days. Here were my first thoughts when I heard the news via my friend April today:

1) There's one more baby in this world who has lost her mother.

2) Anna Nicole will never get a chance to show her daughter that people can change for the better, that there is hope even in the most devastating of circumstances. And, yes, I really do believe this. When that little girl grows up and becomes a young woman, the photos and video clips she will see of her mother will show her a woman who got rich and famous largely for being a walking train wreck waiting to happen. Anna Nicole was only 40 years old, and who's to say she wouldn't have reached a point in her life when she said, "Enough of this b.s. I need to figure out what it means to be an actual person, rather than a caricature"?

I just find this whole thing really, really sad.