Fans want to know more about country star<\/a> Thomas Rhett<\/strong>\u2018s wife, Lauren Akins<\/strong>, after she revealed in a short film that she \u201cresented\u201d the singer while welcoming back-to-back children.\n<\/p>\n Thomas\u2019s wife was born and raised outside Nashville, Tennessee. Lauren and Thomas attended the same high school and church while growing up.<\/p>\n She is a registered nurse, and received her nursing degree from the University of Tennessee.<\/p>\n Lauren is a published author, releasing her memoir Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life\u2019s Changes<\/em>, in 2020. In the New York Times<\/em> bestseller, she shared how she found her identity after Thomas\u2019 career took off by helping orphans in Uganda through charity work.<\/p>\n In addition to writing, Lauren hosts a parenting podcast, \u201cLive in Love With Lauren Akins.\u201d<\/p>\n The pair have known each other since elementary school and briefly dated in high school. They reconnected as adults in 2011 and got engaged after six months of dating. The couple married in an outdoor ceremony on October 12, 2012, in Nashville.<\/p>\n Both Lauren and Thomas were 22 years old at the time they tied the knot. \u201cEverybody was telling us not to \u2026 but we just fell in love at a young age,\u201d he told People<\/em><\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n The ACM winner penned his 2015 smash \u201cDie a Happy Man\u201d in honor of his wife. \u201cI wrote the song for her and about her,\u201d he told People<\/em><\/a> in 2016. \u201cI really did just wake up one day and was like, \u2018I have yet to write a song about her.’\u201d<\/p>\n Lauren starred in the music video<\/a> for the song, which showed the couple having plenty of romantic moments in a tropical paradise setting. The tune went on to win Single of the Year at the 2016 CMAs, where Thomas told the audience, \u201cMy lovely wife, she was the full inspiration for the song,\u201d while accepting the award.<\/p>\n The couple began the adoption process for a baby girl from Uganda in 2016, whom Lauren connected with while working with the charity 147 Million Orphans.<\/p>\n \u201cI had always wanted to adopt,\u201d she told Us Weekly<\/em><\/a> in 2019. \u201cMy mom is actually adopted. I am a product of an adopted family \u2026 When I saw her \u2026 I was very drawn to her. I just tell everyone she was always my baby. It just took us a little bit longer to find each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Due to the country\u2019s complicated adoption laws, Lauren had to foster the baby, whom they named Willa, in the African country over the course of a year. She made nearly a dozen trips, staying for weeks and months at a time.<\/p>\n Amid the adoption process Lauren became pregnant. She was in her third trimester when the couple got approval to bring Willa home to the United States. Her parents flew to Uganda to collect the little girl and reunited her with Lauren and Thomas. The couple revealed her adoption to fans in a May 12, 2017, Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three months later, Lauren gave birth to their first child, daughter Ada, on August 12, 2017, in Nashville.<\/p>\n \u201cShe weighs 7 pounds 3 ounces and is so stinking cute I just can\u2019t take it! Thomas Rhett and I are so in love with her. And Willa Gray is so excited to finally have a baby sister,\u201d the new mom announced on Instagram.<\/p>\n The couple welcomed a third daughter, Lennon Love, on February 10, 2020. A fourth daughter followed quickly, as Lauren gave birth to Lillie Carolina on November 15, 2021.<\/p>\n \u201c7.5 pounds of pure joy. Lauren, you are my hero. Watching a child being born is legit a miracle. 4 under 6 here we go!\u201d Thomas shared with fans in an Instagram birth announcement.<\/p>\n In a July 2024 short film titled This Wasn\u2019t the Plan<\/em>, Lauren revealed how traveling to Uganda to spend time with Willa while pregnant took a toll on her, as well as her marriage to Thomas.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of the adoption process really fell on me because I was the one who was able to travel and be with her, and foster to adopt her for those 13 months,\u201d she recalled. \u201cThere were so many roadblocks, and I became pregnant. I was getting sick and throwing up, like, 50-something times a day. The whole time I was missing my husband,\u201d as Thomas was on tour at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cIt kind of felt like we went zero to two pretty quick as parents. I began touring with my husband and I was running myself ragged, just chasing him all over the place, trying to make it feel like it used to,\u201d she said. \u201cHis life went on and I felt like mine stopped. I felt like we weren\u2019t doing it together anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI just hit a breaking point where I didn\u2019t like him and I resented him,\u201d Lauren explained in the film, as she told her husband how she felt \u201calone\u201d while he focused on his career. The couple attended \u201cintensive counseling\u201d to air out their issues.<\/p>\n \u201cWe shared everything, and some of it was really hard to hear for each other,\u201d Lauren revealed. \u201cSo, we really just did a restart, and that was when I feel like our marriage took off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWhere Is Lauren Akins From?<\/h2>\n
What Does Lauren Akins Do for a Living?<\/h2>\n
When Did Lauren Akins and Thomas Rhett Get Married?<\/h2>\n
Lauren Akins Starred in One of Thomas Rhett\u2019s Music Videos<\/h2>\n
Lauren Akins and Thomas Rhett Share Four Children<\/h2>\n
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<\/div>Lauren Akins \u2018Resented\u2019 Thomas After Welcoming Their First Two Children<\/h2>\n