Riley Keough Explains Why She Parents Daughter Tupelo, 2, Differently Than How Her Mom Lisa Marie Presley Parented Her

Mar. 15, 2025

Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley.Photo:WWD/Penske Media via Getty

WWD/Penske Media via Getty

When it comes to parenting,Riley Keoughplans to do a few things differently than her mom,Lisa Marie Presley.

“I think she was such an amazing parent and she wanted us to have, I think like her father did, these amazing experiences all the time,” Keough shares. “For me personally, I think that the problem there could be for some that when you’re used to so much, it’s hard to find joy in simple things.”

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“And so 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.”

While Keough says that’s what she would most likely do differently, she acknowledges that her mom didn’t mean to do any harm.

“I think her intention was really wanting to give everything she could to her kids,” the actress explains.

Riley Keough and Lisa Marie Presley.John Sciulli/WireImage

In November, Keough sat down with author Taylor Jenkins Reid and shared how she actuallymirrors some of Presley’s parenting.

“I think that I always say it’s this southern style of parenting, but it’s actually very specifically my family,” Keough began. “I think it is from the south, but whatever way she was parented was how I was parented in a sense. And I also now sort of parent that way.”

She continued, “It’s really loving and tactile and smothering — no boundaries.”

As for why she described her family’s unique parenting style in so much detail in her mom’s memoirFrom Here to the Great Unknown, Keough said, “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.”

source: people.com