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SHE HOPED TO 'STARVE' BABY
BOMBSHELL CHARGE

By JANON FISHER in Nassau, the Bahamas, and DAVID K. LI in New York
February 15, 2007 -- Anna Nicole Smith's former nanny said the model ordered her to underfeed Smith's newborn girl - in order to make the infant look "sexy," according to shocking court papers.

The accusations were made last year by one-time nanny Quethlie Alexis during a wrongful-termination beef she had with Smith in the Bahamas, according to the celebrity gossip site TMZ.com.

"Ms. Marshall [Anna Nicole Smith] was obsessed with making sure that her baby was 'sexy,' " Alexis said of the late Playboy model, who died in a Florida hotel last week.

"Ms. Marshall knew that the cor rect amount of baby food was three ounces every three hours . . . Ms. Marshall insisted that the maximum I was to give was 2.5 ounces."

The blond bombshell, who rose to prominence as a Playboy Playmate and then wife of a elderly oil tycoon, fought weight issues for most of her adult life. Smith reinvented herself in recent years as poster girl for a New Jersey- based nutritional supplement she claimed helped her beat the bulge. But the model took that weight obsession to obscene extremes with her newborn daughter, Dannielynn, according to the nanny.

"She is badly underweight and not thriving, as a baby should," said Alexis, in a Dec. 4 declaration.

Wayne Munroe, the Bahamian lawyer for Smith's estate, insisted Dannielynn is a healthy baby and cast the nanny as a "disgruntled [former] employee."

The birth certificate of Dannie lynn lists Smith's former lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, as the father. But a Los Angeles photographer and Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband both have also claimed paternity - and the list of would-be dads appears to be growing.

"Some German chap came into my office today and claimed he is the father," said Munroe, adding that there'll be "a lot of bad behavior" before the estate is settled.

Friends of the world-famous model have said Smith went into a tailspin when her 20-year-old son, Daniel Smith, died soon after her daughter's birth.

Alexis, the nanny, said Smith tried to take her own life twice after her son's death - first by downing a sleep aid and then throwing herself into a pool.

"I wanted to die . . . I meant to kill myself," Alexis quoted Smith as saying later.

She claimed she saw Stern fishing Smith out of the pool and saying after the rescue: "If anything happens to you, I would go to jail."

According to People magazine, Smith had been fighting pneumonia for months.

Quoting Stern's sister, Bonnie Stern, the magazine reported that Smith developed such a high fever in the days before her death that she was placed in an ice bath.

"Anna wouldn't let them take her to the hospital," Bonnie Stern said. "She knew it would be all over the media."

TMZ.com also reported yesterday that Smith - late in her pregnancy - had the painkiller demerol, sleeping aide dalmane, anti-heroin medication methadone and vitamin B-12 shipped to her in the Bahamas.

The methadone was prescribed in the name of Smith's alias "Michelle Chase," according to the Web site.

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