Daddy's Little Girl
Posted on Wed Apr 18th, 2007 8:20am PDT By X17 Staff
After a long and emotional battle, Larry Birkhead has finally been united with his baby Dannielynn, who's the spitting image of her father! Larry opened up to OK! in an exclusive interview about being a single parent, his relationship with Anna Nicole and his feelings on Howard K. Stern.In OK!, Larry reveals:
Larry and Anna had chosen baby names
Prior to Daniel’s death, Larry and Anna has said they would name the baby Annabella or Marilyn Nicole after Marilyn Monroe if it was a girl and Niko if it was a boy.
Anna and Larry talked about getting married
Anna said to Larry, “I don’t want to be a single parent and do this all over again like with Daniel,†and Larry tells OK! “At one point she wanted me to get her a wedding ring. We’d talked about getting married a few times but when she found out she was pregnant I said it probably wasn’t a good idea just because you found out you are pregnant. I didn’t want to do it for the wrong reasons, I just wanted to make sure it was right. But, I went out and got a ring and she wore it."
Anna miscarried Larry’s child in February 2005
Anna was trying to get pregnant again with Larry’s child
We talked about it early on in the relationship and once we did try but it wasn’t successful. We said at some point we were going to try again, and now there’s Dannielynn
Anna went to the Bahamas because ‘people’ told her Larry was going to try to get sole custody because there was "tension over all the medications she was taking"
In the last email Anna sent Larry three days before giving birth to Dannielynn she said, “Don’t fall in love again, I’d be a bit jealous.’
Unlikely ally Howard has been giving Larry advice on Dannielynn
"Everyone’s been really helpful, actually, even Howard’s been helpful. It seems unlikely to most, but he’s been a great help. He’s just really tuned me in because he’s been with Dannielynn the last several months, he knows her likes and dislikes and things like that that could help me out. He also gives me credit when I’m doing good things and he gives me tips on things I should do a little bit different and I welcome everybody’s input."
more of OK's exclusive interview inside:
Larry never doubted he was the father, but he tells OK! in court the day of the announcement was the first day he was nervous because it felt like the Academy Awards with the judge holding the envelope.
Larry said he thought Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband coming forth as the father was so funny he’d “pop popcorn and sit in front of the television when he’d come on just to laugh at him.â€Â
Howard has agreed that when you work things out he’ll just hand her over for you to take to LA?
"In the end of this, he’s the one who’s become on my side, my ally. I’m not saying Vergie is my enemy, but as long as we can define what everybody wants and be clear and be truthful. If she wants a grandmother, she can be a grandmother, my mom wants to be a grandmother too, but I’m not going to sign a paper saying so, it’s just not right." Stay tuned.
Will you let Howard visit the baby once you move back to LA or Kentucky or wherever?
"Let me say this, I think certain people have done things not because they wanted to, but because they were asked. I don’t hold Howard 100% responsible. I think some things happened there and whatever reasons he said that, it’s fine. There’s been a lot of hurt and heartache and right now my main goal is transitioning Dannielynn to me from him and he’s been great, and he’s been helpful and he’s been supportive, which does show me that he does have good inside of him regardless of what people are out there saying. Howard did things for Anna that no one wanted to do. I actually feel sorry for Howard."
Did Howard ever apologize? Did he ever say he was sorry?
No, he doesn’t think he did anything wrong.
Do you think Larry will win full custody of his child? And what does the future hold for little Dannielynn? -- An enormous payout from the Marshall estate as Anna Nicole's sole heir? A lifetime of living in the shadow of her mother's legacy?
