Anna Anka

Anna Anka (née Danuta Anna Kołodziejska, previously Åberg; born 1971

Early life

Originally named Danuta Anna Kołodziejska, Anna Anka was born in what was then the Polish People's Republic. Her mother died during childbirth. At the age of three, Anka was adopted by a Swedish couple named Åberg living in Bjuv, Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1994 to work as a model Her participation in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant barred her from participating in the Miss Sweden pageant that year.

Anka has released a workout and training book called The 30-minute pregnancy workout book: The Complete Light Weight Program for Fitness.

In 2009, Anka became known to a wider public in the reality show where she was one of three Swedish women who lived in Hollywood. The program, which was shown on Swedish TV3, had the highest ratings ever and set a new viewer-record for a program made by TV3.

Newsmill article On 16 September 2009, Anka was interviewed on Swedish news site, Newsmill, in an article called "" (""). 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 that the piece had been ghost-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,

Personal life

In 1999, she was hired as the personal trainer of musician Paul Anka. 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. According to Anna, Paul had pointed a gun at her. Subsequent review of their mansion's surveillance footage provided no evidence of any such event. Later that year, two years after marrying, Paul and Anna Anka divorced. By August 2014, Anna Anka said she was on good terms with Paul, though not with her first husband. In August 2017, Anna Anka appealed the decision, which Paul Anka criticized.