Larry Birkhead talks raising daughter Dannielynn, 15, out of the spotlight and their Kentucky Derby tradition
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The 49-year-old former photographer fought to provide a consistent life for daughter, Dannielynn, after her late mother, Anna Nicole Smith, died when she was just five months old in 2007.
"… When she gets fixed up, she's kind of like her mom. She's a chameleon." "Since I did meet her mom there, it started off just kind of me taking her back and showing her around and kind of letting her know the stories that, you know, this is kind of where I met your mom and things." "… Here I am, I didn't plan on doing it alone. But, you know, it is what it is, and we've made the best of it."
"We had a really great time, and it's kind of been a tradition that we would go every year," he told Fox News Digital of the annual affair at the Barnstable Brown Derby Gala for the pre-Derby diabetes fundraiser.
"That's where I met Anna Nicole Smith. And it's something that I've taken my daughter back every year since. She's old enough to kind of understand what it is."













