They say that fact is stranger than fiction, and that’s certainly the case regarding the untold truth of Anna Nicole Smith. Given their age and financial disparity, it’s easy to understand why some presumed Anna Nicole only married J. Howard Marshall II for the Benjamins. Still, she insisted it was not so. “I saw a very sick man, physically ailing, and I just wanted to talk with him, really,” Anna Nicole told Larry King. “There was no physical attraction at all [on my behalf] ever,” she admitted.
However, Anna Nicole didn’t struggle to be intimate with the octogenarian. “I loved him very much,” she continued. “I loved him so much for what he did for me and my son.” Anna Nicole said Marshall proposed “within a week,” but she refused as she “wanted to try to make something out of my life before.”
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Her claims were backed up by Larry Birkhead, the future father of Anna Nicole’s daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead. He discussed his feelings about Anna Nicole’s marriage to Marshall with ABC News. Birkhead noted Anna Nicole had lived a life of poverty and struggled as a single mom before meeting Marshall. “That was no act,” he said of the marriage. “She genuinely [had] some kind of a deep love for him. Now, I don’t know if it was the kind of, you know, physical type of thing, but it was what he did for her and what he did for Daniel and that he changed her life.”
