Riley Keough and her husband Ben Smith-Petersen quietly welcomed a child woman final 12 months.
Throughout Lisa Marie Presley’s memorial service at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee on Sunday, Smith-Petersen confirmed the information whereas delivering a tribute on behalf of Keough. Because the actor sat within the entrance row, her husband learn the phrases she ready. “I hope I can love my daughter the way in which you really liked me, the way in which you really liked my brother and my sisters. Thanks for giving me energy, my coronary heart, my empathy, my braveness, my humorousness, my manners, my mood, my wildness, my tenacity. I am a product of your coronary heart, my sisters are a product of your coronary heart, my brother is a product of your coronary heart,” he mentioned.
Smith-Petersen didn’t present any further particulars relating to their kid’s identify or birthday, however a consultant for Keough confirmed to Folks that the pair had a child woman in 2022. Keough is the daughter of the late Presley and musician Danny Keough, who had been married from 1988 to 1994.
The actor first met her stuntman husband whereas filming Mad Max: Fury Highway in Namibia in 2012. However the two remained informal acquaintances till they began relationship a 12 months later whereas doing reshoots for the film in Australia. Two months later, they moved in collectively and 4 months after that, in 2014, they introduced their engagement on Fb with Smith-Petersen sharing a photograph of Keough sporting a diamond ring, captioned, “In order that occurred.” The couple went on to wed in February 2015, internet hosting their first marriage ceremony in Nepal, the place they had been constructing a faculty, just a few weeks earlier than their second marriage ceremony in Napa Valley, California. After getting matching tattoos the third day they frolicked, Keough and Smith-Petersen have since been married for the final eight years.
In a 2022 essay for Vogue Australia about discovering her “soulmate,” Keough wrote of their first ceremony, “The households knew we had been getting married they usually mentioned, ‘Allow us to throw you a Hindu marriage ceremony.’ It was so stunning and, in some methods, that marriage ceremony was slightly extra intimate and actually particular. That marriage ceremony, I cried. At my greater marriage ceremony I used to be slightly nervous, I wasn’t as current. Nevertheless it was nonetheless equally as superb.” She continued, “My husband is such particular person.He is calm and constant and robust and delicate. He is my greatest pal…Love turns into various things over time, and I’m excited to see all of the completely different phases it goes by means of. I’m excited to get up and be in our home, and have our espresso, and Ben goes for a surf and we’re simply hanging out once we’re older. I’m excited to have children. Every thing is thrilling to me, with him. Daily is thrilling whenever you’re along with your soulmate.”
