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Dumb Blonde Podcast: Larry Birkhead (Part 1)

23 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What personal experiences does Larry share about Anna Nicole Smith?

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Chapter 2: How did Larry's career in photography begin?

983.892 - 984.893 Bunnie

Like that's amazing. Yeah.

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984.873 - 997.326 Larry Birkhead

But I kept finding myself in these weird situations. Like I would be sent from one job to the next and I was kind of on a roll. And it did a lot for my self-confidence because I wasn't really a big, I wasn't always confident about myself.

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997.386 - 1018.491 Larry Birkhead

And I was this always like the lanky kid in school that was like, you know, like stuffing my shirts with like fake muscles or something or a double layer in the clothes. So for, to me, it was like, you know, it did a lot for me, you know, myself and my confidence for all that. But I- I just kept moving into something else. I remember like one time I was out in L.A.

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1018.632 - 1035.759 Larry Birkhead

and I don't know how this happened, but I was covering there was a reporter that canceled for a major news organization and I did the red carpet for them. And I was backstage when Halle Berry won her award for the best actress or whatever.

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1035.9 - 1037.502 Bunnie

For Monster? Yeah. Yeah.

1037.822 - 1057.169 Larry Birkhead

And it's weird because she came, I guess she did some press in a different area that I wasn't at. She came back off the stage and she ran off the stage and I was like happy for her. I'd never met her in my life. And I opened my arms and like she was like, oh my God. And like she hugged me and then it was like a good probably 10 seconds and she started going like this.

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Yeah.

1058.667 - 1084.422 Bunnie

she's like all right enough buddy who are you yeah because it was like like the reality set in is like i don't know this guy and but you know it's like but you guys were both so caught up in the moment like what a sweet moment i was happy for her and you know i'm sure she probably doesn't remember but it was like to me it was like just i just kept finding myself in weird spots yeah well you were meant to be there for a reason even though you might not know why you still were meant to be there for a reason she needed that hug

1084.402 - 1107.169 Larry Birkhead

But after that, I went on and I continued to do the Derby Beat every year. And that's when in 2000 and... I'd say 2002, it started getting really crazy. There were a lot of crazy celebrity happenings. There was a time when Pam Anderson came. She was dating Kid Rock at the time to the Barnstable Brown Gala. It was like this...

Chapter 3: What were the key moments during Larry's interactions with Anna Nicole?

1166.218 - 1191.78 Larry Birkhead

And so basically, it was like... So the following year, you know, it was 2003 and I was back on the same beat again. And all these celebrities were announced of who was coming. And one of the celebrities was Anna Nicole Smith. And I was going down the list of the celebrities with my editors. And they're like, okay.

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1191.76 - 1218.848 Larry Birkhead

good good good good you know and they were like telling me what we want to be doing they're like okay Anna Nicole's coming don't leave her site and I was like okay all right yeah whatever you know and I so okay pause right there were you a fan of Anna before meeting her I mean I think she's like every guy's fantasy yeah you know I mean obviously like you know uh posters you know when she was you know when doing guests and stuff and all that I had that and and uh you know I'd

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1218.828 - 1225.679 Larry Birkhead

seen her in the magazines probably long before, you know, like I should be, you know, I'm like going through magazines in my dad's room and stuff.

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1225.759 - 1225.919 Unknown

Yeah.

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1226.18 - 1235.835 Larry Birkhead

But like, I mean, I did too. She was hot. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I knew of her, but I also knew of like the headlines, the things that people had said about her. Right.

1235.855 - 1242.405 Bunnie

So I, you know, had even being in that industry, like you still believed headlines because you knew how they worked.

1242.385 - 1248.515 Larry Birkhead

Well, I really don't, I don't know that I believe them. I'm, I'm always like open to like, you know, finding out for myself.

1248.756 - 1249.136 Bunnie

Gotcha.

1249.156 - 1251.4 Larry Birkhead

But I was, you know, look, it's, it's.

Chapter 4: How did Larry's relationship with Anna Nicole evolve over time?

1497.611 - 1503.057 Larry Birkhead

It's like, she started hitting the ground running with doing promo. Like basically she was throwing trim spa t-shirts out to everybody.

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1503.077 - 1505.539 Bunnie

I feel like she was really good at promoting herself.

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1505.58 - 1505.82 Larry Birkhead

Yeah.

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And, uh, like it says in the documentary, which we'll start talking about in a little bit. Um, she, as soon as the cameras were on her, she came alive.

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1514.391 - 1538.925 Larry Birkhead

Yeah. It was a different, it was, it was almost like a light switch. Like, you know, I think of, I was thinking about it earlier and I was thinking what the, the transition of that, but, um, which we could talk about, but, um, yeah, so t-shirts were flying and people were screaming and, and, and there were a lot of celebrities there and, and all heads turned when she got off that bus.

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Mm-hmm.

1539.554 - 1558.272 Larry Birkhead

she had on this black dress. It was like low cut with these rhinestones and she had, you know, her hair was all up, like jewelry just flashing. Every time I took a picture, it was flashing all over the, you know, it was like, it was like, it was kind of like an aura, you know, like when she moved through the crowd and people were like,

1558.252 - 1570.728 Larry Birkhead

But I mean, I was still in the mode because I had a job to do. I had like several jobs to do. So I was like, I really wasn't like reading too much into it other than like that. Wow. But also the transition of the year prior to that.

1570.868 - 1571.228 Bunnie

Right.

Chapter 5: What insights does Larry Birkhead share about his relationship with Anna Nicole Smith?

3878.266 - 3878.466 Larry Birkhead

And

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Not the low bunk on the ground.

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3880.168 - 3881.11 Larry Birkhead

It wasn't the low.

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3881.13 - 3881.45 Bunnie

Oh, okay.

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3881.73 - 3886.938 Larry Birkhead

I mean, that's probably where I deserve to be because I was like the low man on the totem pole as far as like the group.

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I was like, they did you wrong if they put you on the bottom bunk.

3889.541 - 3906.985 Larry Birkhead

I was kind of like, I remember I was up like in the middle and then I, Anna was getting her stuff. And of course she was always being briefed on stuff. Like tomorrow we're doing this, tomorrow we're doing that. And like people were coming in and I was kind of like trying to stay out of it and stuff. And again, I still felt like I didn't earn my place on the bus. I don't know if that's just,

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No, I get it. I understand that.

3908.447 - 3929.55 Larry Birkhead

And I, I, I, I was kind of like, uh, I remember closing the curtains and I was like, like trying to like, I was watching a movie in front of me that was on the bus. And, um, and finally I was like, what's going on here? Like, I still was in kind of disbelief that this was happening, but I wasn't like, because I'd been, and I'd covered celebrities and stuff. I never had this situation.

Chapter 6: How did Anna Nicole Smith's past affect her relationship with Larry?

3969.993 - 3988.66 Larry Birkhead

what's she got a girlfriend what's her name you know what's she was like getting involved in my story and I was like oh no not really she's just a friend you know watching my apartment while I'm gone and you know and she's like oh cool okay okay you know but I could tell she was kind of like you know it was kind of weird you know just filling you out yeah I think and I was like so I was like um

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3988.64 - 4008.589 Larry Birkhead

You know, we were just talking and stuff and had like talk about we were like talking over like stuff from like, you know, childhood and different things, not not deep stuff. It was kind of like surfacy stuff like, you know, and I didn't really ask her too much about her stuff. She was kind of asking me, you know, about my family and different things. I was like telling her.

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and, uh, just like little conversation. And, um, you know, that happened, nothing really major. We get to LA and she lived in studio city and the bus wouldn't go up her hill or Canyon or where she lived. And so we stopped in this parking lot. And I remember getting out of that bus and thinking, are they going to blindfold me now?

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4026.971 - 4035.201 Larry Birkhead

Like, and where I don't know where I'm going to like the bat cave, you know, like, you know, and it was, I had that weird, just kind of like, you know, feeling,

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I saw it when you walked in here. You're very suspicious. Like you, like you like to know what you're walking into.

4040.73 - 4057.616 Larry Birkhead

Yeah. I, I, I, well, part of it's probably PTSD and stuff from like just crazy stuff happening from my situation. But yeah, I do like to kind of like. And I'm always scanning when my daughter's with me, like a security guard, like I scan around.

4057.997 - 4058.658 Bunnie

Oh, you have to.

4058.678 - 4058.898 Larry Birkhead

Yeah.

4059.118 - 4060.1 Bunnie

Yeah, absolutely.

Chapter 7: What challenges did Larry face while dating Anna Nicole Smith?

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still kind of wondering why you are there too.

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4097.049 - 4122.999 Larry Birkhead

I'm sure. I mean, I, you know, I had planned on going home. It didn't happen. So, you know, I'm now I'm in, in Los Angeles at Anna's house. And, um, so we get into the house and, um, and I'm, I'm thinking I've seen this house on the reality show. I, I, And we would sit back on Sundays or whenever it came on and we would laugh at it, the show. And we would hear some of the crazy shit she did.

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4124.262 - 4145.736 Larry Birkhead

And it was just like you saw it on television. But there were actually, it's like the studios, there's like working lights still set up. So like if you go under like a catwalk and there's like strips of light and there's cords and different stuff. So like you kind of felt like you walked onto a hot set, but you were like in her house.

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Right.

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4146.397 - 4159.857 Larry Birkhead

You know, and I was like, okay, this is different, but whatever. And who am I to say anything, you know? And we're up in this canyon, I remember. And I remember thinking, I mean, this is nice. This is a cool house and, you know, whatever.

4159.837 - 4184.776 Larry Birkhead

And I was nervous still, like, you know, and I because it was kind of like when the door opened for me to come in that everybody's demeanor dropped, you know, not Anna's, but everybody else. I felt like the mood was flat and I was like, OK. And then Anna was telling her assistant, go do this, get Larry, show Larry this and whatever. So. Anna's room is upstairs.

4185.519 - 4191.328 Bunnie

Just to pause you right there. Do you think they did it because they were jealous of Anna's attention going to you?

4192.996 - 4209.359 Larry Birkhead

Yeah, honestly, at that point, I didn't know. I knew that, and I'm friends now, and we can talk about that later, with all these people. But in that moment, I felt like they might have felt like they were threatened because I was getting the attention from her that they wanted.

4209.559 - 4210.46 Bunnie

Right, exactly.

Chapter 8: How did Anna's pregnancy impact their relationship dynamics?

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And I felt like that maybe it was just awkward.

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You're the new guy, so they were probably like, what's going on with this situation? They're trying to figure you out.

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4222.797 - 4237.819 Larry Birkhead

So I remember taking my suitcase and I was going upstairs and there's an office and two bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs was Daniel's room, the lowest level, and an art room.

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4237.799 - 4260.972 Larry Birkhead

and they kind of showed me around or whatever so i'm looking around at the time that they're showing me going well where the fuck am i gonna sleep you know like going thinking you know like you know i don't see a bedroom that's open yeah and i'm like my back's still fucked up and i don't know about the couch but i'm like i guess i do what i i have i'm told to do you know right so i i get upstairs with her and she um she shows me um you know this this is my room this is a

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4260.952 - 4280.109 Larry Birkhead

And I, you know, and we've all, did you watch her show? Of course. Okay. So remember when she had the big, the pink and white fluffy wall and I think, you know, a decorator did it for the show and stuff. So, and there was like clouds on the ceiling with penises in the clouds and like all this weird stuff.

4280.129 - 4302.168 Larry Birkhead

And then like, there's this gigantic pop art painting of like her oil husband on one side and there's like all this stuff. Dogs are barking, yapping, you know, and stuff just hung everywhere, clothes and, and real chaotic time, you know, when we first entered there. And I was like, she's like, you could put your stuff in the office. And I was like, okay, I'm going to the office.

4302.528 - 4321.939 Larry Birkhead

She goes, but you know, but you can stay in here. And I go, well, first I went in and I said, um, is, is there like a, um, thing I can put on the floor for there's like, cause there's a desk in there. It wasn't that big. And my, my suitcase was in there, but she also had extra clothes in there too. There was clothes everywhere. I'm like racks and racks and racks.

4321.959 - 4341.489 Larry Birkhead

So I was like, okay, maybe this is where I'm going to stay. So I want to be respectful. And I was like, you know, uh, I was like, you know, is there something I can put on the floor for, um, no. And Anna said, no, you're going to stay in here with me. I was like, Oh, Oh, okay. Um, yeah. Okay. And, uh, yeah. So I, that's where I went.

4341.769 - 4353.852 Larry Birkhead

And so, um, she was territorial about her closet and I guess a lot of women, you know, so my, my stuff was put in one room, but I was allowed to stay in her room with her. And, um,

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