Sally Kirkland: Anna's Implants Partly to Blame

Sally KirklandActress Sally Kirkland believes Anna Nicole Smith's breast implants played a significant part in her need for pain medication, and possibly her death. Sally nearly died from them herself.

Kirkland, a Best Actress Oscar nominee in 1988, told TMZ that she believes "Silicone played a part in the emotional and physical breakdown of Anna Nicole's body." Kirkland, who at one time had 38DD silicone breast implants, met Smith in 1992 when the two were "a similar size." Sally says she herself was poisoned by her leaking silicone implants, and had to take Vicodin and other pain medications to alleviate suffering from the crippling pain. Kirkland believes Anna was probably enduring the same ill effects -- the reason she needed methadone and Demerol prescriptions and "appeared out of it a lot of the time."

Now healthy and implant-free since 1998, Kirkland also feels that Anna "may not have consciously known the dangers" associated with silicone implants. In 2006, the FDA allowed silicone implants back on the market after a fourteen-year ban. Kirkland has been an anti-silicone activist for years, and hopes that Anna's tragic death is a wake-up call on the dangers of the implants.



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61. Ok if her temp was 105, why wasn't she taken to the hospital? I don't understand that one at all.

Posted at 7:10PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Jackie

62.
I just wanted to remind people that the following is how Anna Nicole believed in handling the remains of a loved one, the following is a quote from a news story at the time it happened:

Sunday night's installment of E!'s "Anna Nicole Show" featured Smith and her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, parading through her newly decorated pink house carrying an urn full of the late J. Howard Marshall's ashes. Anna was here usual ditzy self as she gave Marshall’s ashes a tour of her new abode.

"This is a painful issue for all of us who knew and loved my father," Marshall's son, E. Pierce Marshall, stated. "Immediately after his death, [Anna Nicole] tried to block our attempts to carry out my father's final wishes that his body be cremated in accordance with his Quaker beliefs. [She] spent so little time with my father that she had no idea he was a Quaker and that he wanted his remains cremated." Although the family eventually convinced a court to cremate Marshall, the battle for his ashes resulted in them being divided between Smith and the Marshall family.

Anna’s half of the ashes actually remained unattended at a funeral home for over five years, until one of her lawyers realized that it would not look good for her trial to not have claimed the ashes of her dead husband. Needless to say, this only sickens the Marshall family even further. E. Pierce elaborated by saying, "Her conduct and the conduct of her attorney is reprehensible. Anyone who had anything to do with the production of this segment of the program should be ashamed of themselves. I think the public will conclude that this plus-sized model and her lipstick-covered attorney don't have an ounce of decency or credibility between them.

So Yes treat her with the same respect, cremate her and split the ashes so they can be carried around like a joke. Karma is a boomerang.

Posted at 6:46PM on Feb 17th 2007 by MW

63. All I want to know is ...
When does the MURDER trial begin.
Howard?
Are you up to it?
WHY did you kill Daniel?

Posted at 10:49PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Thai.NgYuen

64. Boob Jobs arent that painful. Anna N. Smith always seemed like she was an addict. Sally K is an idiot.

Posted at 7:54PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Joanne

65. Howard Stern SAID she had a temperature, he SAID she had been sick, he SAID she had tried to committ suicide, there is no proof that any of that is true and he is the only one who SAID she had a temperature, not even her "nurse" said it.

She may have had "flu like" symtoms as those are the symtoms of a methodone overdose.

Posted at 8:07PM on Feb 17th 2007 by MW

66. lol #2. said it best. ;-)

Posted at 8:11PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Kevin Keckeisen

67. This old turd needs to keep her yap shut. Some women get implants because they have a deformity or lost one to cancer. Just because she had a bad experience dosen't mean everyone will. They use saline solution nowadays. If she is looking to get publicity for herself over ANS death she just made everyone realize what a senile inappropriately dressed for her age dingdong.

Posted at 9:03PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Cuckoos

68. Well, they certainly didn't help anything healthwise, physical or mental. But without them, none of us would have ever heard of her.

Posted at 9:28PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Parme

69. Poor old Mr. Marshall did not want his ashes divided in half and then half of them carried around in an urn while Anna Nicole made jokes about it on national TV and it hurt his family terribly but Anna did not care so who cares what her wishes were, treat her body the same way she did his, cremate her, send half to Texas and half to the Bahamas, Karma Baby!

Posted at 10:17PM on Feb 17th 2007 by MW

70. Oh, come ON!!! So when you boil down the implant theory is it something like this: Her SON died because of her implants and so did she???? She lived a doped up/drunk life, too wasted to care or intervene with her son's problems, and brought a newborn baby into a trainwreck of a life just for the sake of BOOBS??? Wouldn't anybody the least bit sane and worthwhile have the implants removed a long, long time before it all came to this if that were TRULY the real problem??? Give me a break. She did not need big boobs to be successful, they were comical more than anything.

Posted at 11:12PM on Feb 17th 2007 by Sharon

71. Really... who gives a sh*t about Kirkland

Posted at 12:53AM on Feb 18th 2007 by Avamp1

72. Without meaning ANY disrespect or disgust, is it possible ( with all the sperm freezing and negotiating) that anna could have carried ( by invetro fertilization) Daniels child? Could that be why Stern is so quick to produce Annas will and so slow at produceing his own DNA sample? He KNEW what her will left to whom and to whom it would be going to. Also Marshall left Danny a great deal of money, where is it now? The childs name indicates it was named "after" Danny. Can Dannys DNA be tested now? iI this were to become a real scenerio, it would explain ALOT of the actions,secrets and mysteries. It has been indicated by more than one,and needs researched. Again i intend absolutely NO disrespect and wish only for Anna and Danny to rest in peace, the baby to be well cared for and not be traumatized by those that lived off her mother for so long

Posted at 2:15AM on Feb 18th 2007 by jay

73. ME didn't find any sign of infection, the drugs in the motel room had Stern's name on them. He's in deep and will be arrested, no doubt about it, a young man and his Mom are dead because he was likely on his way out ot the relationship, even though there was a ceremony of committment I think Anna truly believed Stern killed her son. He was in post production of his movie Illegal Aliens. There was no reason for him to even be on antidepressants or Methodone. He was around people who loved them, they were having fun making a movie, this will come out in the inquest.

Posted at 9:10AM on Feb 18th 2007 by Granny

74. Silcone leakage makes sense to me. It would explain a lot. I've heard even her mother say that Anna was on pain killers for years because of her operations. And it would explain why she had a doctor's prescription for methadone which is sometimes prescribed for pain. If you have chronic pain over a long period of time, it is easy to become addicted.

Posted at 2:12PM on Feb 18th 2007 by Ann Blasius

75. I've checked more into the medical dangers of silicone leakage. One is toxic shock syndrome. Some of the symptoms are flu like symptoms and high fever--Anna had both during her last days. Also, if left untreated, the person dies quickly. There was also a report that her hair dresser said that Anna suffered from severe stomach pain which is also symptomatic of silicone leakage. I'd be willing to bet it turns out she died of TSS or something related to her breast implants.

Posted at 7:59PM on Feb 18th 2007 by Ann Blasius

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