In the midst of the heartache of claiming goodbye to her mom, Lisa Marie Presley, in January, Riley Keough and her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, revealed they’ve a daughter. A rep for the “Daisy Jones & The Six” star beforehand confirmed to POPSUGAR that the 2 are mother and father, and in a dialog with Interview printed on March 29, Keough revealed that she “became a mother in 2022.”
Smith-Petersen first shared the information whereas studying a speech that his spouse wrote in tribute to her mom throughout Presley’s Jan. 22 memorial service in Graceland. “I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me, the way you loved my brother and my sisters. Thank you for giving me strength, my heart, my empathy, my courage, my sense of humor, my manners, my temper, my wildness, my tenacity. I’m a product of your heart, my sisters are a product of your heart, my brother is a product of your heart,” Smith-Petersen learn for Keough, who was sitting within the entrance row, per People.
Smith-Petersen and Keough first met on the set of “Mad Max: Fury Road” in 2012. They formally started relationship in 2013 and have been engaged in 2014. In 2015, they have been married in two completely different ceremonies: one in Nepal and one in Napa Valley, CA.
In May 2022, Keough wrote an essay for Vogue Australia about her relationship with Smith-Petersen through which she shared how she knew that they had a future collectively only one week after they began relationship. “We stopped at this little gas station to get chips and fill up the tank. We were so young, he was 22 and I was 24, just getting coffee and smoking cigarettes, without a care in the world,” she wrote of one among their early outings. “I remember as he walked out of the gas station, I so strongly had this feeling, and it was, ‘That’s the father of your children.’ It was so crazy because we had only really hung out for a week.”
While Keough and Smith-Petersen have but to share some other particulars about their daughter, she is the couple’s first and solely little one up to now.
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