Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn Birkhead joined her father Larry Birkhead on the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, Could 4.
The 17-year-old Dannielynn and her father, 51, attended the a hundred and fiftieth Kentucky Derby collectively in Louisville, Kentucky, on Saturday, posing for photographs earlier than they made their technique to the racetrack. Dannielynn wore a brilliant pink Badgley Mischka robe and coordinating Jane-Rose Zupetz fascinator whereas her dad sported a light-weight grey swimsuit and a purple tie.
“We’re having a good time,” Larry solely informed Us Weekly on Saturday. “Dannielynn is having fun with for one in every of [her] first years moving into the style of the Derby. She wore a costume that was Janet Jackson’s on Friday and bought a significant haircut as a result of she wished ‘one other look’ for Derby Day.”
Larry additionally famous that his daughter “likes the horse Mystik Dan due to her title Dannielynn.”
On Friday, Could 3, the father-daughter duo attended the Barnstable Brown Gala at Barnstable-Brown Mansion in Louisville the night time earlier than Derby Day, as they do yearly. Dannielynn wore a floor-length, long-sleeved black robe adorned with zippers and paired with platform fight boots. The classic Gianfranco Ferré was purchased at public sale from a group that when belonged to Janet Jackson.
Moreover, Dannielynn sported her lengthy blonde locks on the Barnstable Brown Gala, which have been noticeably shorter on Saturday when she walked into the Derby.
“On the way in which to @kentuckyderby with Dannielynn after an amazing night time on the Barnstable-Brown Gala and fast morning haircut or two,” Larry wrote through Instagram together with a number of photographs of the duo posing of their Derby vogue.
“Dannielynn’s costume was impressed by her favourite character Hino Eiji, Kamen Rider OOO TaJaDor combo — she made me write that 😆 — as a result of that character had the identical shoulders because the design of the costume she discovered! 🤷♂️” Larry continued. “Hey no matter works, simply making an attempt to spend just a little high quality time as this weekend of traditions come to an in depth…”
Dannielynn and Larry attend the Kentucky Derby collectively yearly, in addition to the Barnstable-Brown Gala, which holds a sentimental place within the hearts of the Birkhead household.
“Tonight is the twentieth anniversary the place I met Dannielynn’s Mother on the similar occasion,” Larry shared through Instagram throughout final yr’s gala. (Smith died of a drug overdose in February 2007 on the age of 39, simply 5 months after Dannielynn was born.)
“Generally you are feeling like a bodyguard, typically you are feeling like a chauffeur,” Larry joked to Us Weekly in 2020 about being a single father. “It depends upon what the day is. However my job is dad and I feel I’ve accomplished a reasonably good job. She’s adjusted to it and he or she’s only a regular child.”