Billie Lourd and Austen Rydell’s household simply grew by one. The actors welcomed their second youngster on Dec. 12, Lourd’s father Bryan revealed the next day. Bryan shared the information in a speech at Variety’s Dealmakers Breakfast in Los Angeles. “My daughter had a child final evening,” he instructed Variety’s chief manufacturing officer, Claudia Eller. “I left the hospital at 1:30 and bought there this morning at 6. I’m slightly drained, however glad. Everything’s nice. So if I wander, it is as a result of the adrenaline continues to be flowing.”
Billie and Rydell welcomed their first youngster, 2-year-old Kingston Fisher, on Sept. 22, 2020. Billie revealed she was anticipating her second youngster on the Sept. 7 premiere of her film “Ticket to Paradise,” displaying off her child bump on the purple carpet.
At the movie’s Los Angeles premiere, she joked about telling her children she made a film whereas very pregnant. “If they ever say they do not need to do their homework, I’m going to be like, ‘Watch this film. I used to be 9,000 years pregnant with you. You higher have an excellent work ethic,’ ” she joked to People. “If that does not offer you an excellent work ethic, I do not know what is going to.”
Billie, the daughter of the late Carrie Fisher, has beforehand opened up about her husband’s parenting abilities. “Now we all know one another higher than anyone may ever know one another . . . We simply turned even nearer mates, even higher companions. And I believe it ready us to be the perfect dad and mom,” she stated of quarantining with Rydell in a January 2021 interview with SiriusXM’s Bruce Bozzi. “He is, as you already know, the perfect dad on the earth. And I believe that is partially as a result of we bought to have this expertise collectively.”
Billie has additionally beforehand been candid about how her mother influenced her parenting fashion — primarily by instructing her what to keep away from. “I used to be her most important assist, and I used to be seven, for lots of the time, and that was actually laborious, and that is why I grew up actually quick, as a result of I used to be her greatest good friend,” she stated in a 2021 episode of the “New Day” podcast. “I used to be her mom, I used to be her child, I used to be her all the things. And that is one of many issues I’m studying to not do with my child.”