Life ‘tough’ for Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter
IT’S been nine years since Anna Nicole Smith died — and now the father of her daughter Dannielynn has opened up about raising a young girl without a mother.
LARRY Birkhead says raising his daughter, Dannielynn, without her mother Anna Nicole Smith has been difficult.
“It’s a lot of work, but there’s a lot of reward there,” Birkhead said on an episode of the Steve Harvey Show that aired Tuesday. “Everyday is like an adventure, it’s a little bit of a struggle. You don’t have enough time in the day and you always wish you had that extra pair of hands to help out.”
In February 2007, Smith died at age 39 of an accidental overdose of at least nine different prescription drugs, reports Today.com. Dannielynn was only 5 months old at the time.
“It’s tough raising a little girl without a mum,” Birkhead, 43, said of his 9-year-old daughter. “You always want to make sure you’re doing the right thing that a mum would choose that a dad might not choose. There were days on the playground where she would say she wants her mum back … it’s tough for her to visit the grave. It makes me emotional thinking about everything we’ve been through. It’s just been a rollercoaster.”
Anna Nicole’s first child (from a previous relationship), Daniel Smith, died from a drug overdose at his mother’s hospital room at age 20, just days after his baby sister was born.
“Things could have turned out a lot different,” he thought. “I think in a sad tale, this is kind of the happiest ending that you could have.”
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and is republished here with permission.
Originally published as Life ‘tough’ for Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter