Anna Nicole's Life in Photos

From Wal-Mart checkout girl to Playboy pin-up, take a look at the highs and lows of the Texas star

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SMALL TOWN, BIG DREAMS

At 17, the high school dropout marries Billy Smith, a 16-year-old cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken, the hometown restaurant where she worked. The pair have a son, Daniel, in Jan. 1986, and divorce a little over a year later.