Larry Birkhead said that, after a couple of months of dating Anna Nicole Smith, she had asked him to marry her, but he didn’t feel like they were ready to take that next step. He also shared during his 2007 appearance on “Larry King Live” that he told her no when she asked because, “at that point, it would have been for the wrong reasons, you know, not knowing her and not really, you know — I wanted to make sure it was for the right reasons.”
He did give her a ring when she was pregnant with their daughter, Dannielynn, though he specified that he didn’t consider it a wedding ring. He told King, “She wanted a 10-carat, and I was kind of downscaling it to a 4-carat. But you know, she was on Tiffanys.com, and I was kind of going to, you know, Walmart.com or something, you know, something a little bit less money.”
He also stated that, had he and Smith gotten past their disagreements earlier on in their relationship, they could have gotten married and had “more of a fairy tale ending than this tragic ending.”
