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| Born | Danuta Anna Kołodziejska 1971 (age 53–54) Poland |
| Other names | Anna Yeager Anna Åberg |
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| Website | annaanka |
Anna Anka (néeDanuta Anna Kołodziejska, previouslyÅberg; born 1971) is a Swedish and American model, actress, and author. She was married to Canadian singerPaul Anka. Anka is featured in the Swedish reality showSvenska Hollywoodfruar (Swedish Hollywood Wives).[1]
Originally named Danuta Anna Kołodziejska, Anna Anka was born in what was then thePolish People's Republic.[2] Her mother died during childbirth.[3] At the age of three, Anka was adopted by a Swedish couple named Åberg living inBjuv, Sweden.[4] She moved to the United States in 1994 to work as a model[4] after placing eighth in the internationalMiss Hawaiian Tropic pageant.[5] Her participation in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant barred her from participating in theMiss Sweden pageant that year.[5] Previous reports stated that Anka participated in Miss Sweden in 1994 butVeckorevyn—which was the owner and operator of the Miss Sweden beauty pageant at the time—found no evidence of her participating in either the 1993 or 1994 pageants, though she did participate in Miss Scania's 1993 pageant.[5]
Anka made a brief appearance in the American filmDumb and Dumber, credited as Anna Åberg. She had two lines, both in Swedish:Hej allihopa (Hi everyone) andHej då (Bye).[6] She has also played minor roles in the filmsThe Specialist andDrop Zone.[7]
Anka has released a workout and training book calledThe 30-minute pregnancy workout book: The Complete Light Weight Program for Fitness.[6]
In 2009, Anka became known to a wider public in the reality showSvenska Hollywoodfruar where she was one of three Swedish women who lived in Hollywood. The program, which was shown on SwedishTV3, had the highest ratings ever[8] and set a new viewer-record for a program made by TV3.[9]
On 16 September 2009, Anka was interviewed on Swedish news site, Newsmill,[10] in an article called "Jag vill bli en förebild för svenska kvinnor" ("I want to be a role model for Swedish women").[11] The article described Swedish fathers as "tragic with their diaper changes and their equality" and Swedish women in general as shabby, petty, unintelligent and having lost touch with their natural femininity. A resounding appeal was made for the choice of a housewife lifestyle like Anka's own, and she affirmed her wish to become the role model that Sweden needed. It was later revealed and acknowledged by the publishers[12] that the piece had beenghost-written by site editors after a phone talk with Anka in order to increase attention. The article received more than 100,000 hits, a first for Newsmill,[10] and several responses, including fromNalin Pekgul.[13]
In 1999 she was hired as thepersonal trainer of musicianPaul Anka.[4] They married in 2008, at which point she became a full-time housewife with her two children,[4] a son she had with Paul Anka in 2005 and an older daughter from her first marriage with Louis Yeager.[14] In December 2009, Paul Anka filed for divorce after Anna Anka called the police during an argument with him over her decision to fire one of their housekeepers.[15] According to Anna, Paul had pointed a gun at her.[15] Paul denied the allegation and filed adefamation lawsuit in February 2010 against her in response, both for this and other allegations.[16] Subsequent review of their mansion's surveillance footage provided no evidence of any such event.[15] Among other allegations, Paul also alleged in his suit that previously—during an argument in November 2009—police arrested Anna forfelonydomestic battery after wounding him, but Paul insisted at the time that the charges be dropped.[16] The suit wasdismissed with prejudice five months later, in July 2010, thereby barring relitigation.[17] Later that year, two years after marrying, Paul and Anna Anka divorced.[18] By August 2014, Anna Anka said she was on good terms with Paul, though not with her first husband.[14]
In June 2017, Anka lost custody of her son after a ruling which assigned custody to Paul Anka without any mandate for guaranteed visitation or family therapy.[19] In August 2017, Anna Anka appealed the decision,[19][20] which Paul Anka criticized.[20]
Anna Åberg från Bjuv i Skåne flyttade till USA för femton år sedan för att jobba som modell. Sex år senare anställdes hon som sångaren Paul Ankas personliga tränare. [Anne Åberg from Bjuv in Scania moved to the USA fifteen years ago to work as a model. Six years later, she was employed as the singer Paul Anka's personal trainer.]
En rad svenska tidningar, däribland Aftonbladet och Expressen, har rapporterat att Anna, då Åberg, flyttade till USA efter att hon kommit på andra plats i Fröken Sverige-tävlingen 1994. [...] 'Jag fick åka till USA med Miss Hawaiian Tropic, tävla mot 83 tjejer från hela världen och jag kom på åttonde plats.' [...] Enligt fotograf Mikael Nordström på Npp Photo, var Anna Anka, då Åberg med i Fröken Sveriges delfinal Fröken Skåne hösten 1993. Delfinalen var en kvaltävling till den stora Fröken Sverige tävlingen 1994. Anna kvalade dock inte in, hon kom enligt Mikael, varken etta, tvåa eller trea. [A series of Swedish newspapers, including Aftonbladet and Expressen, have reported that Anna, then Åberg, moved to the USA after joining the Miss Sweden 1994 contest. [...] 'I got to go to the USA with Miss Hawaiian Tropic, compete against 83 girls from all over the world and I came in eighth place.' [...] According to photographer Mikael Nordström at Npp Photo, Anna Anka, then Åberg was in Miss Sweden's part-finals Miss Scania in the fall of 1993. The part-finals was a qualifying contest for the big Miss Sweden competition in 1994. Anna did not qualify, she came according to Michael, neither first, second nor third.]
He would go on to briefly marry Swedish model Anna Aberg [sic], with whom he has a son, before they split in 2010, and then he wed Lisa Pemerton in 2016.
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