Former Playboy Playmate model, reality TV star and would-be oil heiress
Anna Nicole Smith announced on her official Web site on Thursday that she is pregnant, but offered few other details.
Smith, 38, revealed the news in a brief home video clip in which she appears to be lounging on an inflatable raft in a backyard swimming pool, with two yapping poodles visible in the background.
"Hi, it's me, Anna Nicole," she says, smiling into the camera. "I've been hearing a lot of gossip in the papers ... Is she pregnant? She's pregnant by some guy? Well, let me stop all the rumors. Yes, I am pregnant."
Smith goes on to say that she is "very, very happy about it" and that "everything's going really, really good."
But she never says when she's expecting, nor offers any hint of the father's identity.
The video was shot at a close camera angle that reveals little more than Smith's face and shoulders, though she promises future updates that will "let you see me as I'm growing."
The video was posted on Smith's official Web site (http://www.annanicole.com) with a message promoting the footage as a first installment in what will become, starting next week, a subscriber-supported video diary.
Unconfirmed reports that Smith was pregnant began surfacing weeks ago on the Internet, gossip columns and supermarket tabloids, but her lawyer-spokesman Howard K. Stern had previously declined to confirm the stories.
Last month, Smith won a U.S. Supreme Court decision giving her another chance to collect millions of dollars left by her late Texas oil tycoon husband, J. Howard Marshall by allowing her to contest a probate court judgment in federal court.
The former Vicki Lynn Hogan from Mexia, Texas, she met Marshall at a Houston strip club and was 26 when she married the wheelchair-bound, 89-year-old billionaire in 1994.
His death after 14 months of marriage triggered a legal battle over his estate between Smith and his son, E. Pierce Marshall.
She has a son Daniel Smith, born in 1986 during her first marriage.
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