In the midst of the heartache of claiming goodbye to her mom, Lisa Marie Presley, Riley Keough and her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, revealed they’ve a daughter. It’s unclear once they welcomed their youngster, however a rep for Keough confirmed to POPSUGAR that the 2 are mother and father. Smith-Petersen 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 best way you liked me, the best way you liked my brother and my sisters. Thank you for giving me energy, my coronary heart, my empathy, my braveness, my humorousness, my manners, my mood, my wildness, my tenacity. I’m a product of your coronary heart, my sisters are a product of your coronary heart, my brother is a product of your coronary 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 during which she shared how she knew they’d a future collectively only one week after they began relationship. “We stopped at this little gasoline station to get chips and replenish the tank. We have been so younger, he was 22 and I used to be 24, simply getting espresso and smoking cigarettes, with out a care on the earth,” she wrote of one in every of their early outings. “I bear in mind as he walked out of the gasoline station, I so strongly had this sense, and it was, ‘That’s the daddy of your youngsters.’ It was so loopy as a result of we had solely actually frolicked for every week.”
While Keough and Smith-Petersen have but to share any particulars about their daughter, together with how previous she is, she is the couple’s first and solely youngster to date.