Larry Birkhead is ready for a “reality check.”

The father of Anna Nicole Smith’s 2-year-old daughter, Dannielynn, will begin showing off his parenting skills in a new reality show scheduled to premiere on E! in 2009.

The still untitled unscripted series will follow Larry’s life as a single dad, which includes raising Dannielynn, running a business, and home-schooling his 18-year-old nephew, Justin, whose father passed away.

Larry says it was Tori Spelling, who fronts a wildly popular reality show of her own on the Oxygen Network, encouraged him to do the show,telling him, “Dean and I will support you. Why not? Your life is out there anyway.”

“My life in the last couple of years has been a reality show,” Larry explained in a interview with ET on Thursday. “There’s been so many things out there that are not true, and there are so many things that I’ve taken a lot of beatings for and I haven’t set the record straight; nobody knows the true reality of how I live and what I go through.”

He adds, “I’m changing diapers one minute, going to a basketball court the next minute, going to a concert — here, there, you know, stores — so it’s tough.”