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Dannielynn Birkhead saved her late mom’s reminiscence alive at her favourite occasion of the season, the 151st Kentucky Derby.
The 18-year-old daughter of Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead turned heads carrying one among her mother’s iconic appears for the annual race weekend in Louisville, Kentucky.
Throughout an look on the Barnstable Brown Gala Friday, Dannielynn wore a glamorous black costume with glowing diamonds throughout the again, a robe Anna Nicole first wore to the identical occasion 21 years in the past.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH’S DAUGHTER DANNIELYNN BIRKHEAD STEPS OUT IN A BOLD RED GOWN AT KENTUCKY DERBY
Anna Nicole’s daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, paid homage to her late mom at a celebration earlier than the Kentucky Derby. (Getty Pictures/Instagram)
Her father famous that the costume held sentimental that means for him and his daughter.
“Kicking off @kentuckyderby weekend with Dannielynn,” Larry wrote on Instagram. “First up, The Barnstable-Brown Gala. Dannielynn is carrying Anna Nicole’s costume that she wore 21 years in the past to this identical occasion. Life full circle.
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“She mentioned she selected the costume as a result of it was her Mother’s and ‘tremendous cool.’ Subsequent up the Kentucky Derby races. We’re glad to spend time with my niece Chloe (pictured). I’m going to attempt not an embarrass them with my dance strikes.”
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Dannielynn perfected her late mother’s signature blonde updo with assist from stylists Ryan Austin and Janna Allgeier. Her signature purple lip and daring eyes have been credited to make-up artist Rick Bancroft.
Anna Nicole Smith wore the costume to the identical occasion in 2004. (Jeff Snyder)
On the purple carpet, Dannielynn talked concerning the dream halter robe and its connection to her mother.
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“I really feel good in it,” she informed Entry Hollywood earlier than admitting she was holding again tears. “I can not know my mother, sadly, and this is among the solely causes and methods I can. That is the closest I am going to ever be attending to a hug from her.”
The Barnstable Brown Gala, which advantages the Barnstable Brown Diabetes Heart on the College of Kentucky, is among the most unique and star-studded Derby eve events.
Collaborating within the Kentucky Derby festivities is an annual custom for Dannielynn and Birkhead.
Larry Birkhead and Dannielynn have a historical past with the Kentucky Derby. (Stephen J. Cohen)
The daddy-daughter duo have a convention of attending the Kentucky Derby and have participated within the occasion since she was 3. (Tasos Katopodis)
Birkhead met the late Playboy Playmate on the Kentucky Derby in 2003, and regardless of maintaining their relationship comparatively non-public on the time, he is continued to return to the historic annual occasion as a option to honor the previous and proceed creating new traditions together with his little lady.
“We had a very nice time, and it is form of been a convention that we might go yearly,” he beforehand informed Fox Information Digital of the annual affair on the Barnstable Brown Derby Gala.
“That is the place I met Anna Nicole Smith. And it is one thing that I’ve taken my daughter again yearly since. She’s sufficiently old to form of perceive what it’s.
Anna Nicole Smith was an everyday on the Kentucky Derby. The Playboy Playmate died in 2007. (Mike Simons/Getty Pictures)
“Since I did meet her mother there, it began off simply form of me taking her again and displaying her round and form of letting her know the tales that, you recognize, that is form of the place I met your mother and issues. After which it got here to form of individuals search for my daughter there as a result of I actually do not let her do any public occasions. And, so, in all honesty, the Kentucky Derby is form of the expansion chart for Dannielynn.”
Smith died in 2007 on the age of 39, when Dannielynn was simply 5 months outdated.
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Birkhead fought to ascertain his paternal rights when Dannielynn was born within the Bahamas in September 2006 and have become a central determine in public court docket battles after Anna Nicole’s dying Feb. 8, 2007, after a number of individuals tried to assert paternity.
After a DNA take a look at in April 2007, a choose declared Birkhead the daddy, and he has since raised his daughter out of the Hollywood highlight and in his house state of Kentucky.
Tracy Wright is an leisure reporter for Fox Information Digital. Ship story tricks to Tracy.Wright@fox.com.
