[4] She moved to the United States in 1994 to work as a model[4] after placing eighth in the international Miss Hawaiian Tropic pageant.

[5] Anka made a brief appearance in the American film Dumb and Dumber, credited as Anna Åberg.

[6] In 2009, Anka became known to a wider public in the reality show Svenska Hollywoodfruar where she was one of three Swedish women who lived in Hollywood.

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 been ghost-written by site editors after a phone talk with Anka in order to increase attention.

[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.