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Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn Birkhead is looking more and more like her mother every day.
The nine-year-old revealed the strong resemblance she shares with the late star on Saturday as she and her father Larry continued their tradition of attending the annual Kentucky Derby.
Larry planted kisses on Dannielynn's cheek as they posed together on the red carpet at the event at Churchill Downs.
The youngster was just five months old when Anna Nicole died aged 39 of an accidental drug overdose in 2007.
But Dannielynn showed she is becoming the spitting image of her mother on Saturday, wearing a pale green dress adorned with pink petals, along with a floral headband and pink shoes.
Pink was Anna Nicole's favourite colour, and perhaps this is what inspired her daughter's choice of outfit.
Larry matched Dannielynn in a pale green suit jacket with a pink bow tie, white shirt and trousers and tan brogues.
The 43-year-old and his daughter reside in rural Kentucky and have been fixtures at the horsing event for the past six years.
The entertainment photographer fathered the child during his relationship with Anna Nicole, whom he first met May 2004 at a Kentucky Derby party, but the pair later broke up.
After Anna Nicole gave birth to the girl on September 7, 2006, her son Daniel died of accidental drug overdose three days later while visiting in her hospital room. He was aged 20.
Larry won paternity of a Dannielynn when she was just a baby, after Anna Nicole died following an accidental drug overdose in February 2007 - five months after giving birth.
Larry revealed to Entertainment Tonight in November that he tries to be honest with his daughter about her cult pop icon mother.
'We go back all the time and we go to [Anna Nicole's] grave,' he said during the interview. 'We visit and I tell Dannielynn stories about her mom.
'I don't sugar coat it. I say there are some things that your mom did and you know I try to make her learn from it.'
But he said he is also trying to protect his little girl, adding: 'There is YouTube these days and that stuff is out there. My daughter likes to Google already and I'm trying to keep her from it.'
'She'll see things, when she grows up, that not necessarily are true. Was [Anna Nicole] wild? Yeah, sure. But [she was] a great lady and a great mom.'
Larry additionally said that his daughter is his 'everything' - and that he can't believe how much she looks like her mother.
When I see how big she's become, I'm just so proud of her,' he said. 'She reminds me so much of her mom and as she gets older, and her features are changing, it's just like having a little miniature Anna Nicole running around in so many ways.'
Anna Nicole rose to fame after she married eighty-nine-year-old oil ty!!!! J. Howard Marshall when she was just 26, the pair met in a strip club. He died 13 months later and the model and his family were locked in a legal battle over his will.
The star would go on to become a Playmate and a pop culture icon but struggled legally, financially and with drug dependency.
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