Riley Keough Reveals Daughter’s Name Tupelo & Confirms Surrogacy

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Riley Keough, 34, and husband Ben Smith-Petersen, 32, welcomed Tupelo Storm Smith-Petersen through surrogate in August 2022, the actress revealed in a brand new Vanity Fair cowl story. This comes practically 7 months after Ben and Riley introduced at Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral — through a letter Riley had written — that that they had welcomed a daughter.

Her daughter’s first identify is an unintentional tribute to her grandfather, Elvis Presley. The King of Rock and Roll was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. “It’s funny because we picked her name before the Elvis movie,” Riley stated. “I was like, ‘This is great because it’s not really a well-known word or name in relation to my family—it’s not like Memphis or something. Then when the Elvis movie came out, it was like, Tupelo this and Tupelo that. I was like, ‘Oh, no.’ But it’s fine.”

Riley honors her late brother, Benjamin Storm Keough, with Tupelo’s center identify, Storm. Benjamin died by suicide in July 2020 on the age of 27.

When talking of her daughter, Riley gushed that Tupelo is “literally like someone shrunk my husband and that’s our baby.” While Tupelo might look similar to her father, Riley identified that her daughter’s curls come from her.

Just months after welcoming her daughter, Riley suffered the devastating lack of her mom, Lisa Marie, on January 12, 2023. Lisa Marie, Elvis’ solely little one, died on the age of 54 from a small bowel obstruction.

In the midst of her grief, Riley is decided to maneuver ahead and be the very best mom she could be for Tupelo. “This is the thing in my life so far that I have really wanted to, quote-unquote, get right,” Riley stated of motherhood. “I don’t think you ever can be a perfect parent, but I would like to be the best mom for her that I can be. That’s… very important to me.”

The Daisy Jones & The Six star additionally confirmed for the primary time that she and her husband used a surrogate to have their daughter. “I can carry children, but it felt like the best choice for what I had going on physically with the autoimmune stuff,” Riley advised Vanity Fair. The Emmy nominee suffers from Lyme illness, a tick-borne bacterial an infection.