Dannielynn Birkhead Through the Years: How Anna Nicole Smith’s Daughter Has Grown Up

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Dannielynn Birkhead Through the Years: How Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Has Grown Up

Dannielynn Birkhead, the daughter of Larry Birkhead and the late Anna Nicole Smith, is growing up so fast — see photos of her through the years!

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Dannielynn Birkhead Through the Years: How Anna Nicole Smith's Daughter Has Grown Up

Dannielynn Birkhead, the daughter of Larry Birkhead and the late Anna Nicole Smith, is growing up so fast — see photos of her through the years!

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2006

Her mini-me! Anna Nicole Smith gave birth to Dannielynn on September 7, 2006. "She’s my everything," dad Larry Birkhead told Entertainment Tonight in 2015. "She reminds me so much of her mom."

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2007

Father-daughter bonding. Birkhead has been raising Dannielynn in Louisville, Kentucky, since Playboy model Smith passed away at the age of 39 from an accidental prescription drug overdose in February 2007. He won custody in 2007 following a paternity case.

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2008

Those cheeks! Larry and Dannielynn have, for the most part, stayed out of the spotlight over the years. "I always envisioned if I had kids to bring them up in Louisville," he told WorldNow in 2013. "And so to have Dannielynn here is kind of special."

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2009

She's got an imagination! The adorable twosome went as a witch and a vampire for Halloween in 2009, when Dannielynn was 3. "She is a thrill seeker like her Mom and she drags me to Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio, nearly every chance she gets," Larry told USA Today of her personality in 2015. "I am so protective. She wants to ride larger roller coasters than I will allow."

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2010

Red carpet diva! Larry and his little one attended the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville in 2010. "It’s just like having a little miniature Anna Nicole running around," he told Entertainment Tonight in 2015.

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2011

Another racetrack outing! Attending the Kentucky Derby has become a tradition for Larry and Dannielynn over the years.

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2012

Downtime fun! Larry has previously said that his beautiful daughter loves to play video games and they often travel to the Bahamas together. (Smith and her son, Daniel, who also died of an accidental overdose in 2006, are both buried there.)

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2013

Always in their hearts. Larry ensures that Smith is a huge presence in Dannielynn's life. "We go back all the time and we go to [Anna Nicole's] grave. We visit and I tell Dannielynn stories about her mom," he told Entertainment Tonight in 2015. "I don't sugar coat it. I say there are some things that your mom did and you know, I try to make her learn from it."

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2014

Dannielynn's growing up! "She is doing great, getting super tall and just has become this funny, intelligent, beautiful girl that I am so proud of," Larry previously told USA Today.

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2015

Little fashionista! Larry and Dannielynn coordinated in pink for their annual Kentucky Derby outing in May 2015. Smith previously wore a pink outfit to the event in May 2004.

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2016

My, how she's changed! A few months shy of her 10th birthday, Dannielynn looked so grown up at the Kentucky Derby with her dad in May 2016. "She loves picking the horse by their colors," Larry told USA Today in 2015. "It is our one big dad-daughter date of the year."