I feel oddly sad at the news that Anna Nicole Smith has been found dead in Florida aged 39.

She seemed to be living out one of those all too familiar look-at-me lives that one suspected would end in tragedy.

I am remembering the exuberant Guess ads in which she first came to prominence in 1993, most of them loosely based on Jayne Mansfield images. She seemed a healthy antidote to the increasingly androgenous models who were appearing in print ads in the early 90s and I thought at the time "Ah we will hear a lot from her". Didn't we just.

Strange how the ghost of Mansfield seemed to never be too far away from her.