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Larry Birkhead says when he looks at Dannielynn he sees Anna Nicole
Larry Birkhead became the center of attention of the media after he proved he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, Dannielynn. Smith gave birth to the baby girl in September, days before her 20-year-old son’s death. Howard K. After Smith’s death in February her lawyer and boyfriend Howard K. Stern claimed he was the baby’s father.
Birkhead and Stern took paternity test that confirmed Birkhead was the father. He says when he looks at baby Dannielynn he sees Anna Nicole.
“She has long legs and chubby little toes exactly like Anna’s; it’s like a mirror image. It’s really incredible. And I think her lips are her mom’s lips; especially when she pouts. ... She also gets what she wants exactly like her mom always did as soon as she’d pout,” Birkhead told OK! Magazine.
Birkhead said he wants to raise the baby in Los Angeles, but he said the paparazzi is terrible. “I was a photographer and I understand they need a picture, but when they’re running you off the road and you’re in the car with your daughter and they’re putting lenses up to the car so that it’s like lightning in the car, it gets to be too much,” he said.
Dannielynn could inherit millions from her mother’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Anna Nicole Smith’s will states her son Daniel would be the sole heir to her estate. The court is in the process of identifying her assets and distributing them.
Birkhead has been named the guardian of the estate and Howard K. Stern has been named the executor of the will. Stern and Birkhead have laid aside their differences for Dannielynn’s sake. “He’s been really supportive, and we’re civil for the sake of Dannielynn,” Birkhead says.
Mean while Birkhead is settling into life with his 9-month-old daughter. He said he has hired a nanny to help with Dannielynn.
“She’s just there to assist me, not to take over any parenting. ... I’m really hands-on, like too hands-on with my hand on the baby, a hand on the cell phone, a hand on the diaper,” Birkhead says.
