Anna Nicole Smith’s Lookalike Daughter Dannilynn, 18, wears the iconic Dress of the Late Model

Anna Nicole SmithThe lookalike daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, was the embodiment of her deceased mother while this week she was wearing the iconic dress of the star.

The 18-year-old attended the 2025 Barnstable Brown Gala while he was wearing the Halter style Black Dress that Smith had put on 21 years earlier during the same event.

The appropriate ensemble also contains a deep neckline and a small slit on the front. Sparkling silver embellishments offer a flashy flare on the look on both the front and the back of the dress.

Dannilynn raised her blonde locks in a messy up do, allowing her side pony to border on the sides of her face – which was comparable to Anna’s hairstyle when she appeared on the gala in 2004.

Her father Larry Birkhead accompanied his daughter to the festivities on Friday Kentucky – And photos uploaded to Instagram.

As she posed with the teenager while she was wearing her deceased mother’s dress, the photographer called the moment ‘full circle’.

In the caption of De Post he wrote: ‘Picking @kentuckyderby Weekend with Dannelynn. First the Barnstable-brown gala.

‘Dannelynn wears Anna Nicole’s dress that she wore 21 years ago to the same event. Life full of circle. She said she chose the dress because it was her mother’s and ‘super cool’. ‘

He added: ‘Next the Kentucky Derby races. We are happy to spend time with my niece Chloe (photo). I’m not going to embarrass them with my dance movements. ‘

And while walking the red carpet, Dannielynn revealed why she chose to wear her mother’s iconic dress for the night and expressed reporters: “This is closest to a hug that I can get from her.”

Before he attended the gala on Friday, Larry said People That it was ’emotional’ to see his daughter wear the dress of her deceased mother.

Anna Nicole died at the age of 39 in February 2007 – and her death was later ruled as a casual overdose of drugs.

“It was emotional because the last time I saw that dress was on Anna,” Birkhead explained to the outlet, before he remembered how Dannilynn “walked towards him and she put her hand on the dress” when she was younger.

“And now that she is actually old enough to wear it, it just seems surreal that we are right now.”

The teenager chose her mother’s dress to wear to the event and her father believes that she is doing a fashion experiment for herself. I also think it is really useful for her to wear. ‘

Larry continued: ‘I am just happy that she will continue and is starting to wear something of it [Smith’s clothes] Because she could literally choose an outfit per day for the rest of her life and never wear the same with everything twice. ‘

He currently keeps clothing that was from Anna in case his daughter wants them in the future.

“She is just starting to get into the curiosity of part of fashion and things in her mother’s world.”

Dannilynn has attended the Barnstable Brown Gala with her father since she was a little girl.

Last year the pair of cheerful smiles flashed while visiting the event – and the teenager put on a stylish Gianfranco Ferre dress that was previously worn by Janet Jackson.

And in 2023, Anna’s daughter Zoet tributed to the model by wearing a gambling shirt with black -white images of the deceased star.

She also wore a black, layered tulle skirt and a thick belt with a shimmering silver bucket at the front.

During an earlier interview with DailyMail.com in 2019, Larry opened about raising his daughter After Anna lived a life in the spotlight.

Smith welcomed her daughter in the world in September 2006 – less than a year before her tragic death.

After her death, several individuals stepped forward to claim that they were Dannielynn’s father – including Larry. After DNA tests it was revealed that Birkhead was the biological father.

‘People always say:’ Is she going to become an actress? Will she be a model? “And I never push her in a certain direction,” he said.

“Actually, I always get phone calls and I say,” No, she is not interested in things like that. ” At the moment she is just a child. ‘

Larry – who lives with his daughter in the state of Kentucky – also shared at the time: ‘She surprised me because she followed an acting lesson last year.

‘I received an e -mail from a teacher and she said Dannielynn gave one of the most credible versions of the entire school. So if she wants to do something like that when she is older … we will see when we arrive there. ‘

Anna also welcomed a son named Daniel in 1986 with ex-husband Billy Wayne Smith.

At the age of 20 in September 2006, however, Daniel died in Anna’s hospital room because of a casual overdose of drugs. Days earlier, Smith gave birth to daughter Danlynn.

Larry explained, ‘[Dannielynn] Just really know that her mother was famous and she knows about Daniel. I try to record both of them because Daniel is sometimes forgotten.

“We try to talk about him and I shared a birthday with him, so we always celebrated together.”

He added: “You know, I tell her stories about them and I try not to make it heavy, because she is just becoming a teenager and I think some of that stuff will come …”

And while too Speak with DailyMail.com In 2023, Birkhead was asked if his daughter did something that reminded him of Anna – whom he first met in 2003.

‘Yes, she can spend my money like her mother. And she likes to do that, “he said humorous.

He later said: ‘I laid such a foundation that I gave the tools to say, look, this. Life is now normal.

‘I am very picky and selective. She is very grounded and very modest. She is not one of these entitled Celebrity Kids. She went to a public school all her life. That is what she has chosen. She said I wanted to go to the public school and not to private. ‘

Birkhead Gutste further, ‘Dannielynn is on the honorary role and she makes big figures. She follows lessons at university level. Anna would be very, very proud of her. I know I am. ‘