Anna Nicole Smith and Larry Birkhead’s daughter Dannielynn celebrated her 17th birthday this week.
And to celebrate, her doting father shared a sweet birthday tribute to her on Instagram and said her late mother would be ‘so proud’ of her.
Birkhead, 50, shared a reel full of snaps of the teen over the years and some of her recently, with Dannielynn now looking like a spitting image of her mother.
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“Happy 17th Birthday Dannielynn! I am so proud of you in each and every way. Wishing you the best day ever!” Birkhead wrote in his post.
“You are funny, crazy smart, pretty and just about everything I could ever imagine. Your Mom would be so proud of you, I sure am. Happy Birthday! Love Dad. ❤️
”By the way, when you asked me if you could live in my basement forever. I said yes, but I didn’t have the heart to tell you there aren’t any basements in Florida.”
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In the images, the late actress Anna Nicole Smith can be seen doting on her daughter when she was a baby.
The former Playboy Playmate, who was an easy target for cruel tabloid fodder in the ’90s due to her heavy partying and unlikely romances, died in 2007 at the age of 39 following an accidental drug overdose.
She left behind Dannielynn. Her first child, Daniel Wayne Smith, sadly died a year before his mother in 2006.
In 1994, at the age of 26, Smith tied the knot with wealthy oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall. At the time he was 89 – a whopping 63 years her senior.
On August 4, 1995 – just 14 months after their nuptials – Marshall died from pneumonia at the age of 90.
This marked Smith’s second time walking down the aisle, after she wed her first husband Billy Wayne Smith in 1985.
Birkhead recently spoke to People about his daughter soon going off to college and admitted it’s a scary thought.
“It’s one of those things where she’s just now dipping her toe into getting stuff, and people are mailing her things,” he explained.
“And every time I get something in the mail for college, I don’t know if I really want to give her this because she might take them up on this offer and go somewhere to college.”
He added: “It’s one of those things that all parents go through. They don’t want their kids to go off, but they know they have to.”
Birkhead and Smith dated from August 2005 to February 2006.