Dannielynn Birkhead Picture: Anna Nicole Smith’s Daughter Is All Grown Up, Looking Just Like Her Mom At Kentucky Derby Appearance


Dannielynn Birkhead made her annual appearance at the Kentucky Derby, and the ever-growing daughter of the late model and actress Anna Nicole Smith is looking more like her mother every year.

Birkhead made an appearance at the annual race along with her dad, Larry Birkhead, and looked every bit at home in the fashion-conscious event. Dannielynn showed up with a light green dress and floral headband, Us Weekly noted, while her dad was decked out in a matching light green jacket, white shirt, and pink bow tie.

Larry Birkhead has been raising Dannielynn on his own in rural Kentucky, taking a major step away from the spotlight that surrounded Anna Nicole Smith during her life. Birkhead has been her sole caregiver since Smith’s sudden death in February 2007.

Dannielynn Birkhead Picture: Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Is All Grown Up, Looking Just Like Her Mom
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Many noted the striking resemblance between Dannielynn Birkhead and Anna Nicole Smith, something that Larry Birkhead has talked about in the past as well. In a 2015 interview with Entertainment Tonight, he said that so many things about Dannielynn remind him of Smith.

“I look at her and she’s my everything,” Larry said of his daughter. “When I see how big she’s become, I’m just so proud of her… She reminds me so much of her mom and as she gets older, and her features are changing, it’s just like having a little miniature Anna Nicole running around in so many ways.”

The report noted that Dannielynn has been adjusting well to her life away from the spotlight, getting mostly As and Bs as a fourth grader at the time. Dannielynn said she enjoys playing video games, especially Minecraft, and loves to travel to the Bahamas with her father. There had been some concern that Anna Nicole Smith’s struggles with drugs may have affected her daughter’s development, but Entertainment Tonight noted that there were no indications of any problems.

Dannielynn Birkhead Picture: Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Is All Grown Up, Looking Just Like Her Mom
[Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images]
Dannielynn Birkhead is now 10 and in the fifth grade, and Larry noted that the time is flying by.

“A lot of that [life] seems like that’s a blur,” he said. “If it weren’t for Dannielynn I would say, ‘Did any of this really happen?’ Life’s [was] so fast paced you know? Raising her on my own… it doesn’t feel near as crazy.”

Larry Birkhead said he has tried to incorporate Anna Nicole Smith into their daughter’s life as much as possible, telling Dannielynn all about her mother and her accomplishments as a model and actress. He doesn’t shy away from the bad parts, either.

“We go back all the time and we go to [Anna Nicole’s] grave. We visit and I tell Dannielynn stories about her mom,” Larry explained. “I don’t sugar coat it. I say there are some things that your mom did and you know I try to make her learn from it.”

But Larry said he tries to shield his daughter from some of the harsher memories of her mother, nothing that there are a lot of opinions on Anna Nicole Smith’s life and “not necessarily all true.”

Larry has also moved Dannielynn Birkhead back into the spotlight from time to time. Aside from their annual visits to the Kentucky Derby — which always generate quite a bit of media attention — the two appeared together on the Season 3 finale of Celebrity Wife Swap. The unmarried Larry actually swapped his sister in the episode.

But other than these few isolated events, Dannielynn has grown up far away from the attention that made life so difficult for her mother, and Larry said that is the way he wants it.

More pictures of Dannielynn Birkhead and her father at the Kentucky Derby can be found here.

[Photo by Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images]

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