Riley Keough Welcomed Baby No. 2 with Husband Ben Smith-Petersen (Exclusive)
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- Riley Keough is a mom again!
- The Daisy Jones & The Six star quietly welcomed her second baby with husband Ben Smith-Petersen earlier this year, PEOPLE confirms
- In this week’s PEOPLE cover story, Priscilla Presley opens up about the joys of being a great-grandma to Keough and Petersen’s two kids
Riley Keough is a mom again!
The Daisy Jones & The Six star, 36, quietly welcomed her second baby with husband Ben Smith-Petersen earlier this year, PEOPLE confirms.
Keough — the daughter of the late Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley — and Petersen, 34, are already parents to 3-year-old Tupelo.
In this week’s PEOPLE cover story, Priscilla opens up about the joys of being a great-grandma to Keough and Petersen’s two kids.
“I love her babies,” says Priscilla. “I’m really happy for Riley. She’s got an amazing husband and two great children, so I’m happy for her very much.”
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Asked about Tupelo, Priscilla calls her “so cute.” She says she was talking even before her first birthday.
“At my home, there’s a pond right down below, and I’m holding her, and she goes, ‘Pond,’ ” Priscilla recalls. “She’s not even a year going, ‘Pond.’ Then she looked, and she saw a car. I went to Lisa, and I said, ‘Lisa, she’s not even a year, and she’s telling me all what’s out there.’ [Riley] was saying that her husband really spends a lot of time with her. She’s a chatterbox.”
Priscilla adds that Tupelo sweetly “lives in her own world.”
“She does what she wants,” she says. “She rules.”
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Keough and Petersen met in 2012 while filming Mad Max: Fury Road and married three years later on Feb. 4, 2015. Despite being a part of one of America’s most famous families, Keough has said she wants to create a normal childhood for her kids.
“I really want my children to be able to find joy playing in the backyard and doing normal kids stuff and not need elephants and circus and all these things all the time,” she said on Call Her Daddy in 2025.
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