Anna Nicole Smith friend Lauri Payne swears that Smith told her during her pregnancy that Larry Birkhead is the father of her baby, Dannielynn. Smith and Birkhead had a love-hate relationship and she chose lawyer Howard K Stern to be her husband and babydaddy (if anyone asks) because he could finagle high-paying interview deals for the strapped-for-cash model, whereas that wasn’t something Birkhead would be good at. Earlier, said Payne, “I asked her why she did not just go into a relationship with Stern, to which she responded, ‘EWWW…GROSS! No way! I would never!'” (Source)