Riley Keough Reveals Her Daughter’s Name For The First Time & Why She Used A Surrogate

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Riley Keough, 34, and hubby Ben Smith-Petersen, 32, welcomed Tupelo Storm Smith-Petersen via surrogate successful August 2022, the histrion revealed successful a caller Vanity Fair screen story. This comes astir 7 months aft Ben and Riley announced astatine Lisa Marie Presley’s funeral — via a missive Riley had written — that they had welcomed a daughter.

Riley Keough’s ‘Vanity Fair’ cover. (Mario Sorrenti/Vanity Fair)

Her daughter’s archetypal sanction is an unintentional tribute to her grandfather, Elvis Presley. The King of Rock and Roll was calved successful Tupelo, Mississippi. “It’s comic due to the fact that we picked her sanction earlier the Elvis movie,” Riley said. “I was like, ‘This is large due to the fact that it’s not truly a well-known connection oregon sanction successful narration to my family—it’s not similar Memphis oregon something. Then erstwhile the Elvis movie came out, it was like, Tupelo this and Tupelo that. I was like, ‘Oh, no.’ But it’s fine.”

Riley honors her precocious brother, Benjamin Storm Keough, with Tupelo’s mediate name, Storm. Benjamin died by termination successful July 2020 astatine the property of 27.

When speaking of her daughter, Riley gushed that Tupelo is “literally similar idiosyncratic shrunk my hubby and that’s our baby.” While Tupelo whitethorn look conscionable similar her father, Riley pointed retired that her daughter’s curls travel from her.

Riley Keough with her husband, Ben. (NINA PROMMER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Just months aft welcoming her daughter, Riley suffered the devastating nonaccomplishment of her mother, Lisa Marie, connected January 12, 2023. Lisa Marie, Elvis’ lone child, died astatine the property of 54 from a small bowel obstruction.

In the midst of her grief, Riley is determined to determination guardant and beryllium the champion parent she tin beryllium for Tupelo. “This is the happening successful my beingness truthful acold that I person truly wanted to, quote-unquote, get right,” Riley said of motherhood. “I don’t deliberation you ever tin beryllium a cleanable parent, but I would similar to beryllium the champion ma for her that I tin be. That’s… precise important to me.”

The Daisy Jones & The Six prima besides confirmed for the archetypal clip that she and her hubby utilized a surrogate to person their daughter. “I tin transportation children, but it felt similar the champion prime for what I had going connected physically with the autoimmune stuff,” Riley told Vanity Fair. The Emmy nominee suffers from Lyme disease, a tick-borne bacterial infection.

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