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Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, a new Netflix documentary, is out tomorrow and delivers never-before-seen footage throughout Anna’s path to fame—looking back at the her life through the people closest to her at the time of her death.
Anna Nicole Smith—who was a massively successful model, actress, and television personality in the ’90s—modeled for Playboy and Guess. She also notably married J. Howard Marshall, a billionaire oil tycoon, before his death in 1995. In 2007, Anna Nicole died tragically of a drug overdose at just 39 years old—five months after giving birth to her daughter, Dannielynn.
Dannielynn isn’t featured much in the new Netflix doc, so I wouldn’t blame you if you had a few questions about what she’s up to now. Here’s everything to know about Anna Nicole Smith’s only daughter.
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She’s 16.
Dannielynn Birkhead was born on September 7, 2006 in Nassau, Bahamas. Initially, she was born as Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.
Anna Nicole announced the news via her website and claimed the father was her lawyer, Howard K. Stern. However, she informed Larry Birkhead, an entertainment photographer, that he was the father via a text message prior to her death, per The Daily Mail. Birkhead then found out about the actual birth of his daughter through Anna Nicole’s online announcement.
Dannielynn with her father Larry Birkhead in 2008.
There was some debate about who her father was.
At the time of Anna Nicole’s death in February 2007, the general public believed that Howard K. Stern was Dannielynn’s father—in fact, her birth certificate initially listed his name, per Cleveland 19. Considering he was Anna Nicole’s partner at the time her death, Stern also believed he was Dannielynn’s father.
However, Birkhead was determined to get custody of his daughter, particularly after Anna Nicole’s overdose. And in April 2007, a court-ordered DNA test proved that Larry was indeed Dannielynn’s father. Stern accepted the results and was cooperative, allowing Larry full custody.
Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern in January 2007.
“We’re gonna do what we can to make sure that the best interests of Dannielynn are carried out,” Stern said after the results were revealed, per PEOPLE. “And I’m going to do whatever I can to make sure that [Larry] gets sole custody. Larry can come over to the house and spend as much time with [Dannielynn] as he wants to right now.”
Stern remains incredibly gracious of Dannielynn and Larry, and even stays in touch with them to this day. “[Stern] gives advice and reaches out to us. Some people may think it’s weird, but he’s a good friend and has been real supportive,” Larry recently told E! News.
She had a brother.
Anna Nicole Smith also had a son, Daniel. Unfortunately, Daniel died just three days after Dannielynn was born from a drug overdose. He was just 20 years old at the time, and passed away in a hospital room with his mother and Dannielynn present—he had come to visit his mother and meet his sister that same day.
Anna Nicole Smith and her son, Daniel, in 2004.
She goes to the Kentucky Derby every year with her dad.
Dannielynn and her father keep her mother’s spirit alive through their annual trips to the Kentucky Derby and the Barnstable Brown Gala. ICYDK, The Barnstable Brown Gala is an exclusive pre-derby event, and is also where Larry first met Anna Nicole in 2003, per TODAY.
The father-daughter duo attended the gala and the derby many times together, and it seems to be a family tradition.
Larry and Dannielynn Birkhead at the gala in 2010.
Dannielynn and her father at the Kentucky Derby in 2019. Dannielynn’s look closely resembles one of her mother’s from 2004.
Dannielynn’s dress at the Barnstable Brown Gala in 2023 included her mother’s iconic Guess campaign as a print pattern.
She sometimes dresses like her mom.
Dannielynn’s 2019 Kentucky Derby look closely resembles one her mother wore in 2004. Her father even pointed out the similarity in a now-deleted Instagram post, per Page Six.
It seems clothes are one way that Dannielynn stays connected with her mom. Larry told PEOPLE in May 2023 that his daughter has already added a few of her mother’s old clothes to her wardrobe.
“There’s some T-shirts and different things she fits in, but there’s also some things that she’ll say, ‘Dad, no thanks, that’s not my style,'” Larry, who saved some of Anna Nicole’s clothes for Dannielynn, told PEOPLE. “There’s also some things that would have to wait till later. Some things are a bit more revealing and low-cut.”
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Her dad runs an Instagram account for her.
Her father recently told E! News that Dannielynn loves Snapchat, but you can find her on her dad’s Instagram account: @larryanddannielynn.
Although all of his posts are currently archived, Larry has posted sweet tributes to Dannielynn in the past. On her sixteenth birthday, he shared a photo collage of his daughter and sent a lot of love to her in his caption.
“Sixteen years ago my beautiful baby was born. That’s if you want to feel really old. Many people thought the odds were stacked against you, but maybe that was geared more towards me than you,” Larry wrote, per PEOPLE. “Through tragedy, turmoil and a couple of baby tantrums-today you shine bright and are so accomplished. So proud to be your Dad!”
She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Although she and her dad travel a lot, Dannielynn calls Louisville, Kentucky home, so she’s never too far from where her parents first met! She and her father own a 10,000-square-foot house, per E! News. Louisville is also Larry’s hometown.
Anna Nicole’s daughter lives a relatively normal life—attending high school and playing violin in her free time, per E! News. Her father even told the publication that she recently made honor roll.
You can learn more about Dannielynn’s mother and background in Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me on Netflix, which drops tomorrow, May 16.
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