Oh, I could see the huge difference in her weight with the very first photos we got to see after the DNA - around the first visits, I guess.
Can’t recall when that was - but HKS had had time to get Gerlene to fatten her up. It was a night and day difference in her face, arms, hands, legs - even her hair. Thank goodness!
She seemed to have gone from “surviving” to *thriving.*
May 3, 2007
Bodyguard: Birkhead Abusive to Anna Nicole
Maurice “Big Moe” Brighthaupt, Anna Nicole Smith’s bodyguard, will detail how Larry Birkhead, the father of her daughter Danielynn, held her against her will and sent her threats by phone in his tell-all book, Baby Girl, due out in July by HarperCollins.
Birkhead is the reason Smith “escaped” to the Bahamas, according to Kenji Jasper, the author who is co-writing the book with Brighthaupt, who worked for Anna for several years and tried to revive her with CPR in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino where she died.
Brighthaupt, pictured above with Smith and her companion Howard K. Stern, also will discuss “Anna’s abuse as a child, abuse her mother turned a blind eye to, leading to a feud that would last for the starlet’s entire life,” Jasper says in an email interview. He also will detail his efforts along with those of Stern and a doctor to “curb Anna’s prescription drug use after the death of her son, Daniel.” Brighthaupt also says that G. Ben Thompson, the South Carolina developer who tried to evict Anna Nicole from her home in the Bahamas, tried to bribe him with $500,000 to get into Anna’s house while she and Howard K. Stern were away.
Jasper, a founding cast member of BET’s Teen Summit and author of several novels including Dark, Dakota Grand, and Seeking Salamanca, says he was tapped to do the project by Manie Barron of the Menza-Barron Agency, which represents both him and Moe.
“Manie felt like we would be a good match as we were both from DC,” Jasper says. “As it turns out we grew up in the same neighborhood. Thus I had an interest in making this as descriptive and personal of a story as I could make it. Once Manie had paired us together and we had talked I wrote a proposal for the book, which Harper almost immediately became interested in.”
“I wanted the challenge of taking what could have been made into this really fluff or sensationalist kind of thing and try to make it classic,” he added. “I wanted to have a hand in writing the definitive book on Anna Nicole through the eyes of someone who knew her extremely well during her last days.”
Last month, a so-called tell-all book by Smith’s sister Donna Hogan, Train Wreck, hit the shelves to poor reviews by those who shared their opinions on Amazon.com.
Jasper says he expects Baby Girl to fare much better.
“I think the book will be have a terrific reception, particularly as Moe was a key figure in Anna’s life as opposed to Donna Hogan, who Anna told Moe she hadn’t had anything to do with in quite some time. I think readers really want to get Moe’s take on all that has happened in these past few months.”
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/swan/entries/2007/05/03/bodyguard_birkh.html
Anything for a buck..I will not be buying his book!!!
She also put on that wait after the nannies story got legs and people actually looked at her and said..”wait a minute..that child sure is skinny..” If Anna was alive the poor kid would probably still be underweight.
I know I keep saying this... and it’s horrible, but that baby was in so much danger with ANS.. things like giving her less formula so she would be thin and sexy.... I that baby was in danger with ANS and HKS... I do really hope the Bahamas go after HKS full tilt over Daniel.