Anna Nicole Smith's daughter is about to enter her senior year of high school, and dad Larry Birkhead is 'so proud' of her for making honor roll
- Larry Birkhead posted about 16-year-old Dannielynn, his daughter with the late Anna Nicole Smith.
- Larry said Dannielynn just completed the 11th grade and made honor roll.
Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn Birkhead will be entering her senior year of high school in just a few months, and the 16-year-old's dad couldn't be prouder.
Larry Birkhead shared a sweet Instagram post on Thursday celebrating Dannielynn's scholastic achievements. Two of the three photos in the post showed the teen laughing while looking at her phone in the back seat of a car while Larry was driving — according to Larry's caption, he was "trying to have a serious conversation" with his daughter while she was trolling him with "the worst pics" of him she's taken on her cell phone — and the third showed her honor roll certificates.
In the caption, Larry noted that Dannielynn had just finished 11th grade and applauded her for staying on the honor roll during "challenging times" for their family.
"Dannielynn finished 11th grade and maintained honor roll through some challenging times we had taking care of my Mom before she passed away. I am so proud!" Larry wrote in his caption. "Now, on to Summer break and then 12th grade."
He also joked about Dannielynn's love of taking terrible pictures of him: "In the meantime, hopefully she can take some better pictures of me. I think I am going to give her a photography class over the Summer."
Larry has shared glimpses of his and Dannielynn's life over the years on social media and in interviews. The two attend the Kentucky Derby, where Larry has said he first met Smith, every year, and at the 2023 event in May he told People that Dannielynn is starting to look at colleges. That's making him a little nervous.
"It's one of those things where she's just now dipping her toe into getting stuff, and people are mailing her things," said Larry, who noted that his daughter is showing an interest in forensics as a potential career path. "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."
Ahead of the premiere of Netflix's Anna Nicole Smith documentary, released in May, Larry wiped his Instagram account and spoke out against the project he called a "poorly reviewed cesspool." He told Entertainment Tonight that he and Dannielynn, who was only five months old when her mom died in 2007, "declined to participate" in "You Don't Know Me" because, according to Larry, "some people were allowed to invent things and rewrite history" in the documentary.
He added: "I am looking forward to a true definitive Anna Nicole project where her truth can be heard from her own perspective and by those that truly knew her the best and not just another 'wash, rinse and repeat' Anna Nicole project. Anna truly deserved better and that day will come."