Riley Keoughis a mom.
During amemorial serviceforLisa Marie Presleyat Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday morning, the actress' husband,Ben Smith-Petersen, revealed that the pair are parents to a daughter while sharing a tribute on behalf ofhis wife, who was seated in the front row.
“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 said of his mother-in-law as he read the words of his wife.
Ben Smith-Petersen.Jason Kempin/Getty
Keough, who is the daughter of the late Presley and musicianDanny Keough— met Smith-Petersen while filmingMad Max: Fury Roadin 2012. The two were briefly introduced on set but didn’t start dating until a year later while doing re-shoots in Australia.
“My husband is such a good person,” wrote Keough in a 2022 essay forVogue Australia. “He’s calm and loyal and strong and sensitive. He’s my best friend.”
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Keough’s romance with the Australian stuntman moved quickly, and the twoannounced their engagementin 2014. Smith-Petersen shared a photo on Facebook of Keough wearing a diamond ring at the time and simply captioned it, “So that happened.”
Riley Keough and Ben Smith-Petersen in 2014.Dave M. Benett/amfAR14/WireImage
Less than a year later, the coupletied the knotin February 2015. Keough and Smith-Petersen held their first wedding in Nepal, as the pair were building a school there a few weeks before their stateside nuptials.
“The families knew we were getting married and they said, ‘Let us throw you a Hindu wedding,’ " Keough recalled in herVogue Australiaessay. “It was so beautiful and, in some ways, that wedding was a little more intimate and really special. That wedding, I cried. At my bigger wedding I was a little nervous, I wasn’t as present. But it was still equally as amazing.”
The pair — who have matching tattoos with one another — thengot married againin Napa Valley, California, on Feb. 4, 2015.
The couple’s parenting news comes about after Keough shared a throwback black-and-whitephotoon Instagram Friday of herself with her mother.
Keough left a simple message to go along with the photo in her first public statement since her mother, the only child of rock legendElvis Presley, died: “❤️,” she wrote.
Presleydied on Jan. 12after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital for a possible cardiac arrest. She was 54.
source: people.com
