The Evolution of Anna Nicole Smith.

This article has been a long time coming. I have hauled the book around with me most every where I go. Reading it again and again searching for the right parts to cover.

The first part that I wrote concerning Missy’s book about Anna Nicole came pretty easy. But after the inquest where a Bahamian jury was basically told what verdict to come back with, I exchanged emails with Missy and she was devastated. She was once a loving caretaker of Daniel Smith. The tow headed happy little guy that adored his mother as well as his grandmother whom he called ‘Mee Maw”. Missy was there to see it. She lived it. And to tell it, she bravely revealed parts of herself that I am positive she never would have wanted under public scrutiny. Her grief however was not for herself, but for Anna Nicole Smith’s mother. Read the rest of this entry »

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Melissa Byrum entered adulthood at a much younger age then most of us usually do. At age 13, she left her home to escape the abuse of a sexually deviant step-father after already surviving brutal beatings at the hands of a former step-father.

By age 16, armed with a fake ID, after a stint of menial and minimal paying jobs, she was already a seasoned dancer at the north Houston topless club, The Executive Suite. She was working the day shift in 1987 when Vickie Lynn Smith entered the club.

Missy, as she is called, befriended the frightened new girl and asked the other dancers to give her a break. She writes that a girl as pretty as Vickie Lynn would not have lasted long at the job due to harassment and jealousy with the other girls fearing the loss of their customers.

There began a six year odyssey as Missy and Vickie Lynn became best friends and room mates and Missy lived and experienced what she has chronicled in her new book entitled, “When You Wished Upon A Star, The Evolution of Anna Nicole Smith”.

The book is the first and only true account of how “Nicki” the dancer became the internationally famous model and actress that we came to know as Anna Nicole Smith.

I write “first and only” as Missy points out in the introduction of her book, because other Anna Nicole Smith books written by Eric Redding and then Donna Hogan were published, falsely claiming they had long term and intimate knowledge of Anna Nicole.

Just recently Missy prevailed in a lawsuit against Eric Redding for publishing false information about her in his book “Great Big Beautiful Doll”. Donna Hogan who is a half sibling to Anna Nicole penned “Train Wreck: The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith”.

When asked, Missy states that she wrote the book to correct some of the misinformation not only about Anna Nicole’s early years and rise to stardom but also concerning Anna’s relationship with her mother Virgie Arthur.

Missy writes that her best friend “Nicki” as she called Anna Nicole, had a warm and loving mother who came to the rescue of her daughter and Anna’s son Daniel Smith many times and raised the boy until Anna Nicole established herself financially enough to provide a good home for Daniel when he was six years old.

Next time, Ill list some of the rumors and misinformation about Anna Nicole that Missy clears up in this emotional and loving account of her “golden spirited friend”.

You can catch Missy’s four part interview on Houston’s ABC 13 website

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