Billie Lourd and Austen Rydell’s family just grew by one. The actors welcomed their second child on December 12, Lourd’s father Bryan revealed the following day. Bryan shared the news in a Speech at Variety’s Dealmakers Breakfast in Los Angeles. “My daughter had a baby last night,” he told Variety executive producer Claudia Eller. “I left the hospital at 1:30 a.m. and got there at 6 a.m. this morning. I’m a little tired but happy. everything is great So when I hike, it’s because the adrenaline is still flowing.”
Billie and Rydell welcomed their first child, 2-year-old Kingston Fisher, on September 22, 2020. Billie announced she was expecting her second child at the Sept. 7 premiere of her movie, Ticket to Paradise, and showed off her baby bump on the red carpet.
At the film’s Los Angeles premiere, she joked about telling her kids she was making a film while heavily pregnant. “If they ever say they don’t want to do their homework, I’ll say, ‘Look at this movie. I was pregnant with you for 9,000 years. You better have a good work ethic,'” she joked persons. “If that doesn’t give you a good work ethic, I don’t know what will.”
Billie, the daughter of the late Carrie Fisher, has previously opened up about her husband’s parenting skills. “Now we know each other better than anyone could ever know each other… We just became even closer friends, even better partners. And I think it prepared us to be the best parents,” she said of quarantining with Rydell in a January 2021 interview with Bruce Bozzi from SiriusXM. “He is, as you know, the best father in the world. And I think part of that is because we have to have this experience together.”
Billie has also previously been open about how her mother influenced her parenting style — mostly by teaching her what to avoid. “I was her mainstay and I was seven years old most of the time and that was really hard and that’s why I grew up really quickly because I was her best friend,” she said on a 2021 episode of the podcast Newer Day”. “I was her mother, I was her child, I was everything to her. And that’s one of the things I’m learning not to do with my kid.”