Anna Nicole Smith’s one year old daughter is cross-eyed, her father Larry Birkhead tells the press. Dannielynn, who has recently been rumored to be sporting an eyepatch, suffers from an eye condition known strabismus. The eyepatch is used to cover the strong eye in an effort to strengthen the weak one, but Dannielynn may have to undergo surgery.

“She has strabismus, which is a turning in of one of her eyes, and it’s something that we’ve been looking out for for a while,” Larry tells ET’s MARK STEINES. “I’ve been taking her to the doctors and … Anna had taken Dannielynn to the doctor [in the Bahamas] to see about it when she was just a few months old.”

“I got her a little pirate doll to show her that people wear patches, and it’s okay,” says Larry, “and daddy wears a patch if he has to to show her it’s okay. I’ve been really aggressive with the patch as much as I can be. At first she was really open to it and it didn’t really bother her. Now, she’s gotten a little smart because she can pull it off, so it’s a little bit harder for me to patch her.”

“I’m going to do everything to make sure that it’s corrected,” Larry says, “but having lost Anna and [her son] DANIEL and my dad — my dad just came out of a simple surgery and he died — it’s just tough for me to think about surgeries with [Dannielynn].”

“All of the opinions that I had [from doctors], every one of them said that it’s very, very unlikely, because no one knows one-hundred percent what causes [strabismus],” says Larry. “But I point-blank ask every single doctor, ‘Could any medications that Anna was on have caused this?’ and they said that it’s more likely that a genetic reason could have caused it.”