Last footage of Anna Nicole Smith with Dannielynn

ETonline has video footage of Anna Nicole Smith and her daughter Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern recorded a few days before Anna’s death.  They purport this to be the last known video of the mother and daughter together.

In the video, Anna says,

She’s got my personality. She’s so tall. She’s got really long fingerslike mine and she’s real dainty. … She rolls over; she’s very strong.She holds her head up. She can say a couple words — she says, ‘Ma-ma.’She’s tryin’ to grow up faster than she is, and she gets aggravated’cause she can’t.

Visit ETonline to watch the video.  It is on the right side of the page. Click Continue Reading to see lots more screencaps from the video.

Thanks to CBB Reader Jess.

How old were your children when they first said mama or dada?

      

Comments

Do babies talk at 5 months old?

- Hilary on February 15th, 2007

For most babies, they begin to make sounds other than crying after about the 2nd month. It’s usually after the 6th month of life that a baby starts making 2 syllable sounds. At 7 months a baby will try to MIMIC the sounds they hear. But, children don’t begin to say MAMA and DADA until till around 12 months.

From Danielle, CBB Publisher: Anya started saying “dada” much earlier than 12 months and occasionally said “mama” but not as often as she does now.

- Rye on February 15th, 2007

Our 6 month old makes the “mmmm” sounds (Not what I would consider talking, even when it sounds like Mama, but… the beginnings of communicating). Perhaps that’s what Anna Nicole was talking about.

- Tracy on February 15th, 2007

Aww, I feel so sorry for Dannielynn. She looked so contented in her mummy’s arms. They looked so happy together.

- Jess on February 15th, 2007

It just seems like 5 months is too early to say ‘mama.’

- Hilary on February 15th, 2007

It is sad, too sad

- Eleonora on February 15th, 2007

lol, it reminds of me that scene from Friends when Emma said her ‘first word’.

Rachel: (searching the dictionary) Alright, okay, okay, gleba, gleba… Gleba! Ha! Here it is: the fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of a certain fungi.
Ross: She’s gonna be a scientist!

- stephanie on February 15th, 2007

Babies can create sounds that sound like Mama and Dada but they don’t know what they mean yet. My daughter used to say ma ma ma ma ma a lot but I knew that she was just experimenting with sounds and she wasn’t actually calling me.

- Lorus on February 15th, 2007

The one thing good from this entire situation is that Dannielynn will have audio and photos of her mom. I know not all of it is good, but at least she can see her mom and hear her mom etc…

- Yonni on February 15th, 2007

So sad watching that. It is still hard to believe that Anna is gone. Poor Danni, my heart goes out to her. I think Larry is the father, she looks like him. I don’t trust Howard at all.

- Angela on February 15th, 2007

Why do we care if her deceased mother said her daughter was saying a few words. Maybe she was, maybe she wasn’t. It is possible. I don’t think it really matters. I think its sweet she was saying Ma’Ma. When she gets older she can know that she did get a chance to say Ma’Ma to her mother while she was still alive.

- Jessica on February 15th, 2007

dannielynn is so beautiful! and she looks so happy with anna. whatever the circumstances its a shame that little girl will grow up without her mother.

- tink1217 on February 15th, 2007

oh, and my daughter starting making “mmm” sounds that sounded like “mama” from about 5 months on. My son took a bit longer, maybe 7 months.

- tink1217 on February 15th, 2007

I don’t know why I feel so sad about Anna’s death. As much crap has been said about her, I feel she was a good person who had too much fame early in her life. I think she was a nice girl, and I feel terrible for her daughter that she will have to go through life without her mom. People should leave them alone.

- Michelle on February 15th, 2007

Some babies do begin speaking early on and understand what they are saying. My oldest son started saying “mama” and “dada” at 4 months, and hasn’t stopped talking since! I was a young mom, and thought it to be the norm, so when my 2nd was born, I thought something was wrong with him when he didn’t say his first word until 6 months. Anything’s possible

- erin on February 15th, 2007

Maybe she’s a genius baby. If not, I think that 5 months is a little bit too early to say ‘mama’.

- Stéph on February 15th, 2007

The baby looks happy and healthy.

- Mary on February 15th, 2007

What a beautiful baby! I think she does look like the Larry guy but who knows. I hope whoever she goes to gives her a great life and she won’t have to endure the deamons her brother and mother endured. Its hard for people to understand a person with an addiction and having a mother with a problem makes me really sensitive to this childs situation. She deserves the best.

- Brenna on February 15th, 2007

My daughter just said “dada” yesterday for the first time, and she’s not quite 10 months old yet. She doesn’t say “mama”, just “dada”.

- Lori on February 15th, 2007

I have never had kids, but isn’t it unsafe to lay a baby on its stomach with a crib full of blankets and animals?

- Linda on February 15th, 2007

I hope that Howard is a good man, she is so innocent and adorable, Dannielynn deserves a good life, she is innocent and needs goodness and love around her always. Howard really appears to love and care for her, i hope that she is not torn from the only love that she has ever known and handed to strangers. Most of all i hope that she grows up feeling happy and loved.

- lulusass on February 16th, 2007

I agree. I think Dani looks A LOT like Larry actually. She has his same exact eyes. But, i do think she looks a ton like Anna too. I don’t see a smidge of Howard in this baby though. I am praying that Larry finds out soon if he was right so he can get custody of his daughter now before it could cause any severe psychological trauma that might happen if she was to be ripped away from her life with Howard years from now. This is why I am so upset and disgruntled with this Howard Stern fellow…does he really want to drag this out for years? Eventually, Dani will want to know the truth too-unless he poisons her mind to Mr.Birkhead-and it will end up making things even worse. The mental anguish is so far less extreme when the baby is so young. It will only make it worse for her as she ages and becomes more cognizant of her surroundings and customs. It’s really unfair that someone can tell someone, “You are my babies daddy” and lead them on for months and then all of a sudden be like, “Ummmm, wait, No, you aren’t the daddy…i’m going with the other guy…take it easy!” He SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO deserves to find out…he has already lost 5 PRECIOUS months with this girl if she is his.

- Rye on February 16th, 2007

The baby sure does not looked starved like the supposed nanny reported. Not loving the pictures of her sleeping on her tummy surrounded by stuffed animal and blankets.

- Mrs Soup on February 16th, 2007

When my son was just brand new born I would whisper in his ear, “Mama loves you”. At one month old when he would cry he would actually “say”… “Momma”… or sound out something very close to that. All of our family was astounded!! That is the absolute truth!!! I truly believe that the earlier you talk to babies… the sooner they will begin to talk! It worked with both of my two sons!!! Hand to God!!!

- Liz on February 16th, 2007

CHECK OUT THE BABIES EYES!!! THEY SEEM TO KIND OF LOOK LIKE THAT VAN ANHOLDT GUY’S EYES! I REALLY THOUGHT THE BABY WAS LARRY’S BUT NOW I AM WONDERING…. POOR LITTLE GIRL. THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE ANYONE WITH ANY GOOD MORAL CHARACTER THAT WILL BE GOOD FOR THIS POOR CHILD.

- Liz on February 16th, 2007

…..oooops, I should have typed Baby’s eyes. And I don’t know how to spell that other guy’s name but it is Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband.

- Liz on February 16th, 2007

What an absolutely ignorant comment to say that ‘the earlier to talk to children the earlier they talk.’ So I guess that Liz is the only one that talked to her 1 month old child since she has the only miracle baby that can talk at 1 month! I have 3 children, talked to them all from birth (who doesn’t!?) and they all started talking at different times.

Babies make sounds at different times but I think any professional would agree that until a certain age (probably closer to a year or later) the mental capability is not there to really know what they are saying.

- Lucy on February 18th, 2007

It’s rare but not impossible. It may have been mimic sounds.
I was a very early talker – conversative at 9.5 months (ie “momma I go outside!” that sorta thing), and my oldest was saying Mama, dadda, kitty, thankyou etc long before 12 months.
But thats not all kids, and is rare. And it certainly doesn’t make you a genius! LoL. I’m not especially stupid as an adult but I have about zero ambition towards higher learning.

- wryknow on February 20th, 2007

Jessica,

Your comments brought tears to my eyes. God bless the child & all the children in the world.

- Annia on February 20th, 2007

The pics of little DannieLynn are so precious! She is a little beauty! That smile of hers would melt anyone! I think Anna Nicole was like most mothers of a newborn baby, every mother thinks her baby is the smartest baby in the world and can see new things her baby is doing whether they really are doing it or not. As a new mother I remember many things I thought I saw my baby girl doing and like Anna Nicole I thought my little girl spoke very early too. I think it is the sweetest thing that Anna Nicole doded so much on her little DannieLynn. That little girl will need this video one day it will be something of her Mother to hold onto and know her Mommy loved her. My heart just breaks as I look at that little girl knowing that would be the last video she and her Mom would be in together and as I watch her looking up at her Mommy and smiling so big at her it breaks my heart to know her Mommy will never be coming home to her again. Its just so very sad. I pray DannieLynn is given to her biolgical Father and can grow up with the love of her REAL Dad. God bless you sweet DannieLynn.

- Rhonda Bradley on February 23rd, 2007

This post is for Lucy!
Why are you SO angry?! I promise I wasn’t saying that your child is somehow inferior because he/she doesn’t talk yet! Truly!! But the truth is there are PLENTY of ignorant humans who do not talk to their children… do you not watch the news and see how many abused kids are out there? I, personally, witness …. even at the grocery store how people ignore their kids. Please don’t feel bad that your kids are slow learners. They will catch-up once you throw them into the public school system… or at least they will learn from other kids what you are not able to teach them. Good luck with ALL that!
Peace Out!

- Liz on February 28th, 2007