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Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley, Priscilla Presley seen at Warner Bros. Special Screening of ELVIS, Memphis, TN - 11 June 2022© Getty

Riley Keough reveals 'no boundaries' parenting style for baby daughter inspired by famous family

The Daisy Jones & the Six actress' parenting style is inspired by how her mom Lisa Marie Presley was raised by Elvis and Priscilla Presley

Beatriz Colon
Beatriz Colon - New York
New York WriterNew York
November 20, 2024
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Riley Keough has quite the famous and storied family to pull inspiration from when it comes to parenting lessons.

The Daisy Jones & the Six actress became a mom just over two years ago, when she welcomed daughter Tupelo Storm via surrogacy with her husband Ben Smith-Petersen.

The doting mom's own parents are the late Lisa Marie Presley and her ex-husband Danny Keough, her grandparents Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and she's just shared how they have all inspired her parenting style.

WATCH: The life of Lisa Marie Presley

Per People, Riley, speaking in Los Angeles during a book tour for From Here to the Great Unknown, her mother's memoir that she helped finish, opened up about her parenting style. "I think that I always say it's this southern style of parenting, but it's actually very specifically my family," she first noted.

She explained: "I think it is from the south, but whatever way [my mom] was parented was how I was parented in a sense. And I also now sort of parent that way."

Riley detailed much about her family's parenting style in her mother's book, and further shared: "It's really loving and tactile and smothering — no boundaries."

riley keough and lisa marie presley in 2012© Getty
Riley and her mother in 2012

"I thought putting in the way that my family in the south spoke to each other in this totally insane way, kind of could help paint the picture of absolutely the wildness," she said about the way she portrayed it in the book.

MORE: Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough have emotional reunion in honor of Lisa Marie Presley

MORE: Riley Keough admits her 'wild life' has turned her into an 'untraditional' mom to daughter Tupelo

It was during Lisa Marie's funeral in Graceland, her father's famed Tennessee estate, in January 2023 that Riley revealed for the first time that she had welcomed her first child.

Photo shared by Riley Keough on Instagram October 2024 featuring her younger twin sisters Harper and Finley and their mom Lisa Marie Presley in honor of their 16th birthday© Instagram
Lisa Marie with her daughters

A eulogy delivered by her husband on her behalf at the time in part read: "I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me, the way you loved my brother and my sisters."

MORE: Riley Keough reveals what it's really like to stay in Elvis' $500m Graceland home — and taking her daughter Tupelo

Riley Keough, Priscilla Presley, Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, Lisa Marie Presley and Finley Aaron Love Lockwood see at Warner Bros. Special Screening of ELVIS, Memphis, TN - 11 June 2022© Getty
The Presley women in 2022

In addition to Riley and her late brother Benjamin, Lisa Marie was also a mom to twin daughters Harper and Finley, 16, who she shared with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

MORE: Lisa Marie Presley's 5 biggest bombshells in memoir revealed

Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough seen at the Warner Bros. premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road" on Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Los Angeles© Getty
Priscilla, Lisa Marie and Riley in 2015

And it's not just in parenting that Riley has been inspired by her family; her daughter Tupelo Storm is named after Elvis' birthplace in Mississippi and her brother Benjamin's middle name.

Speaking about how the name first came to be when she first revealed it to Vanity Fair last year, Riley admitted that they chose the name Tupelo before the Baz Luhrmann Elvis biopic came out, and explained: "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," before joking: "Then when the Elvis movie came out, it was like, Tupelo this and Tupelo that. I was like, 'Oh, no.' But it's fine."

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