Riley Keough has had a rough time in the last few years. After losing her brother in 2020, she lost her mother last year. Keough, who is an actress, had little time to mourn as she had to make sure her mother’s funeral was held as she had intended.
During all of this, the 35-year-old keeps her personal life away from the media. So it was during her mother’s funeral that she revealed that she had become a mother. The only way this fact came out was during her husband’s speech at the occasion which revealed that before her death, Lisa Marie Presley had become a grandmother.
Now, almost two years after her death, Keough is embarking on a major journey. Keep reading to learn more about all of this.
In a rare instance, Riley Keough posted a video of her daughter Tupelo Storm Smith-Petersen on Instagram. In the adorable video shared on the social media app, the little girl can be seen copying her mother’s actions, as the latter signs pictures.
In the video, Keough can be seen signing pictures black-and-white nostalgic photos of herself with her late mother. As the camera pans down, little Tupelo can be seen mimicking her mother and ‘signing’ the picture with a brown marker. Since Tupelo is only two years old, she can only manage some scribbles. But her proud mom was quick to tell her followers something important. She wrote in the caption, “A few of you might just get a very exclusive, special edition copy of ‘FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN’ signed by Tupelo.”
While Tupelo’s face is not visible in the video, you can see her blonde curls and white shirt. The little girl also has a diaper on in the video.
A lot of fans were smitten with the video, appreciating the mother-daughter duo. One fan wrote, “Like mother like daughter,” while another added, “She wants to be just like Mama.”
Others appreciated the little girl’s flair for art. One person wrote, This is adorable!” “She is quite the artist already!!!” praised another fan.
When she has spoken of her daughter, Riley has said how she believes the little girl looks like her husband Ben Smith-Petersen. In an interview last year, Riley said, “She’s literally like someone shrunk my husband and that’s our baby.”
But she also wanted to point out what her daughter took from her. She said “I’ll show you where I am,” and turned her toddler around to show the interviewer a view of the back of her head. “This curl right here,” she said.
As for her motherhood journey, Keough merely shared that she does her best. She said, “I don’t think you ever can be a perfect parent, but I would like to be the best mom for her that I can be.”
Her daughter was born in August 2022 via surrogacy, which Riley talked about as a “a very cool, selfless, and incredible act.”
As for why she decided to go with surrogacy she shared, “I can carry children, but it felt like the best choice for what I had going on physically with the autoimmune stuff.”
She named her daughter after her legendary grandfather Elvis Presley’s birthplace of Tupelo, Mississippi.
She said of it, “It’s funny because we picked her name before the ‘Elvis’ movie. I was like, ‘This is great because it’s not really a well-known word or name in relation to my family—it’s not like Memphis or something.’”
After the movie came out, she noticed how the word had grown in popularity and remembered thinking, “I was like, ‘Oh, no.’ But it’s fine.”
As for her daughter’s middle name, it is in tribute to her late brother Benjamin Storm Keough, who died by suicide at 27 years old.
Now, Keough is busy promoting her late mother’s memoir, which she completed after her death, titled “From Here to the Great Unknown.” In the memoir are stories that the late Lisa Marie Presley wanted the world to know.
It seems that Riley Keough is busy keeping her family’s legacy alive. What do you think of her efforts to ensure that she does justice to her mother and brother’s legacy? Let us know in the comments. Share this with other fans so they can know more as well.
