EXCLUSIVE: ANNA NICOLE'S PREGNANT -- AND STAR REVEALS THE BABY'S DADDY!

Posted May 4, 2006, 4pm/EST

Anna Nicole with Larry Birkhead

Anna Nicole Smith, 38, is pregnant, sources close to the former Playboy Playmate tell Star exclusively. Plus, sources tell Star exclusively that the baby's daddy is Anna's secret boyfriend of several years, freelance entertainment reporter/photographer Larry Birkhead, 31. Birkhead, who lives in California and writes for USA Today, met Texas-born Anna three years ago at the Kentucky Derby's Barnstable-Brown Derby Eve Gala, and the pair began dating about a year later.

Anna has a son, Daniel, 20, with her first husband Billy Smith, whom she married in 1985 at the age of 17. The marriage only lasted two years.

News of the pregnancy comes just as Anna, the current spokeswoman for Trimspa weight loss pills, this week won the right to continue her battle for a portion of her late husband Texas billionaire J. Howard Marshall's estate.

Anna's lawyer, Howard K. Stern, told Star,: "If Anna Nicole is pregnant, she obviously doesn't want anybody to know yet. If she's not pregnant, she's not denying the rumor because she thinks it's funny."

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