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The 18 -year -old man put on a very special dress for the festivities, wearing the same dress as his mother, the late Anna Nicole Smith, wore in 2004.
“The kick of the weekend of @kentuckyderby with Dannielyn”, his father, Larry Birkhead, subtitled his Instagram message on Friday. “First of all, the Gala Barstable-Brown. Dannielyn wears Anna Nicole’s dress that she wore this same event 21 years ago. Life is the loop. She said she had chosen the dress because it was her mother and” super cool “.”
“Then the Kentucky Derby races,” continued Larry, 52. “We are happy to spend time with my niece Chloé (photo). I will try not to embarrass them with my dance movements. ”
In the click, Dannielynn made a huge smile as she wore the dazzling Licou dress. The dress had a plunging neckline with sparks in the center and in the back, and an open slit.
Dannielyn’s hair was also a nod to Anna Nicole, who died in 2007 of an accidental drug overdose. She wore her blond locks in a gentle bun as her mother did at the start of the aughts.
The fans flocked to the comments section to share their love for the mini-me of the late model, with a person writing: “You two is so incredibly incredible! Very Sharp Larry and Dannielyn have become a beautiful young woman”, “
A second spoke: “Stop the resemblance is unreal.”
To complete the beautiful remarks, a third fan of social media commented: “You both look incredible !!! At first glance, I saw Anna and I thought it was a very old photo. Wow, Dannielyn is like her mother. To see her all glamorous like that, she looks like a beautiful young woman coming to hers. A lot of love of me. “
While on the carpet, Dannielynn pointed out to a journalist that wearing the dress “is closest to a hug that I can get from her”.
Larry spoke to the people of the sincere moment, sharing that he had the dress “for years”, but it was “emotional” to see Dannielynn wearing it.
“It was emotional because the last time I saw that this dress was on Anna,” admitted Larry, who recalled that when Dannielynn “was a little girl, she approached and she put her hand on the dress.”
“And now that she is really old enough to wear it, it seems just surreal that we are right now.”
Become candid to choose the black number in particular, Larry explained: “I think she has a fashion experience for herself. In addition, I think he is really significant for her.
The father of a child actually saved all Anna Nicole’s clothes, spending “more than $ 200,000 in storage bills” to save all the personal effects of the end star in Dannielyn.
“(I just hope that she would appreciate some of these things one day,” said Larry. “She is barely starting to enter the curiosity of some of fashion and things in her mother’s world.”
“When someone dies, you think:” Oh, I don’t get rid of anything. And then you go through the emotions of, okay, do I really want this? Do I really need this? … and you think: “Well, if there is just one thing in which she can connect, which gives her a feeling of which was her mother. So it was really special that she could have chosen the dress to wear.”
Larry and Dannielyn are not unrelated to the derby in Louisville, Kentucky, because the father-daughter duo has gone together every year since she was 3 years old. As for the reasons why they started so young, Larry admitted that he “was really born from Baby-sitter to be canceled the first year that I brought it!”
“And then everyone was like,” oh, how cute. And then I thought: “Well, she did not have much trouble last year. So it became a tradition,” he said. “Then people started to pick us up and the outfits had to be larger.”
Last year, the photographer sprang in the way the teenager was able to kiss the fashion of the south for the first time.
“We have a good time,” said Larry at Us Weekly in May 2024. “Dannielynn appreciates one of the first years of first year in the fashion of the derby. She was wearing a dress that was Janet Jackson on Friday and obtained a major haircut because she wanted” another look “for the Derby Day.”
Before Derby Day, Larry and Dannielyn are always a duty to attend the Gala Barstable-Brown at the Barstable-Brown Mansion in Louisville.
The gala is a significant place for the pair, as Larry revealed on Instagram in 2023: “Tonight is the 20th anniversary where I met Dannielynn’s mother during the same event.”
Anna Nicole had an emblematic style throughout her career, which she started in Playboy magazine in 1992. The starlet continued model for H&M, Guess and other major retail brands.
The death of the actress came at 39, just five months after the birth of Dannielynn. Before her death, Anna Nicole’s son Daniel, whom she was at 17 with her former husband Billy, died a year earlier in 2006 at 20. He also died of an accidental drug overdose.
During a hearing after his death, the boyfriend’s boyfriend Howard K. Stern said: “Anna and Daniel were inseparable. Daniel was undoubtedly the most important person in Anna’s life. ”
It was reported that during Daniel’s funeral, Anna Nicole tried to get into her coffin.
“He comes to me in my sleep …” she said in entertainment tonight ten days before his death. “It’s like calling me to come to him.”
Daniel met Dannielyn before his death, having gone to the hospital to see his mother and sister the day before his death.
“When Daniel arrived in the hospital room, he went directly to his little sister. He kissed his mother and sister and told them both that he loved them,” said his lawyer Michael Scott in a statement in 2006. “Daniel was very useful to his mother and his little sister.
After the death of Daniel, Howard said he was Dannielynn’s father – to whom Larry has put an action in paternity and he was tried the father.
