Meet Dannielynn Birkhead, daughter of Playboy’s Anna Nicole Smith: the late model – famous for marrying an 89 year old – had Dannielynn 5 months before her death, so what’s the teen up to now?

May 8 , 2024

Dannielynn Birkhead is the daughter of late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead. Photos: Getty Images

Dannielynn Birkhead, daughter of late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, enjoyed a glamorous day out with her dad Larry Birkhead this past weekend at the 150th Kentucky Derby

The 17-year-old had a rocky start to life, losing her half-brother at birth and her mum 5 months later – several men also claimed to be her dad before a paternity test proved it was Birkhead

Dannielynn Birkhead, the 17-year-old daughter of late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, got all glammed up alongside her father Larry Birkhead for the 150th Kentucky Derby this past weekend.

Larry Birkhead and Dannielynn Birkhead at the Kentucky Derby together on May 4. Photo: Getty Images

A glamorous Dannielynn posed for photographs at the derby in a bright red gown by Badgley Mischka. Her father looked equally dapper in a light grey suit and a purple tie.

“We are having a great time,” Larry told Us Weekly on May 4. “Dannielynn is enjoying for one of [her] first years getting into the fashion of the Derby. She wore a dress that was Janet Jackson’s on Friday and got a major haircut because she wanted ‘another look’ for Derby Day.”

According to E!, the Birkheads are a regular fixture at the Kentucky Derby, the same event where Smith and Birkhead first met.

So what else do we know about Dannielynn Birkhead?

Dannielynn Birkhead’s mum, Anna Nicole Smith, was a pop culture figure

Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, Anna Nicole Smith first worked at Red Lobster, Walmart and a fried chicken restaurant before turning to exotic dancing in a club in Houston. There she met the late J. Howard Marshall, an elderly oil tycoon who would help propel her career to the mainstream. Smith subsequently graced the cover of Playboy, modelled for Guess and acted in Naked Gun 33 and a Third, per People.

In 1994, at the height of her popularity, Smith – then 26 – married Marshall, who was 89. According to CNN, Marshall died after barely a year of marriage and did not name Smith in his will, prompting the model to embark on a legal quest to gain a portion of the tycoon’s multimillion-dollar estate. The case would last for a decade and even reached the US Supreme Court, People reports.

Dannielynn’s mum and half-brother died when she was young

Anna Nicole Smith and her son Daniel Smith – both died of accidental drug overdoses just months apart. Photo: @glamorousannanicolesmith/Instagram

Tragically, three days after Dannielynn was born, her half-brother Daniel Smith died from an accidental drug overdose. Worse, it happened while he was in the hospital visiting his mum and new baby sister, Reuters reported at the time.