Larry Birkhead Opens Up About His Life With Danielynn Birkhead Five Years After Anna Nicole Smith's Death
It has been over five years since Anna Nicole Smith died in February of 2007 and her little girl, Dannielynn Birkhead, with Larry Birkhead is growing up fast. Dannielynn is the spitting image of her mother.
"It's hard to move on in that way because you have this little 47-pound reminder of her mother walking around," Birkhead said on "Good Morning America. "And you have all these images that are still so much very alive that you have to deal with every day.
Birkhead says he has tried to keep Dannielynn's life as normal as possible, although he says he "never knew it was going to be this hard" being a single father.
"[She's] as well-adjusted as she can be," Birkhead said. "I enjoy every day and every day is an adventure. You wish you had a couple more hours in each day."
Birkhead also talked about now that Dannielynn is older she is starting to ask the tough questions about her mom.
'Why did mommy die?'" Larry Birkhead, said Dannielynn asked on a recent trip to the Bahamas where Smith and her son Daniel are buried. "And I said, 'You know, they, doctors couldn't fix her. But if you're good ... you'll get to see her someday.'"
Smith died from an accidental overdose of nine prescription drugs, including Valium and Atavan; she was 39. Birkhead says that he will tell Dannielynn about her mother when she is old enough.
"I hope that she understands that no one's perfect and people have triumphs and people have tragedies," Birkhead said. "And her mom really ... soldiered on and she came from nothing and she, you know, lived her dream. But I also want to make things a cautionary tale ... and give her the tools that she needs to where she has the opportunities that her mother and Anna's son, Daniel, you know, won't have."
Through it all, Birkhead wants Dannielynn to see her mother in a positive light.
"I want to keep Anna's image alive in a positive way," Birkhead said. "She could light up a room. And now her daughter's taken her place and she's lighting up every room that she goes into, trust me, I feel it every day."