Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins’ family is getting bigger!<\/p>\n
The couple shared the news via a joint Instagram post on Tuesday, Aug. 26. In the clip, Rhett sang a song which revealed the news.<\/p>\n
“Well, I was wrapping my head around being a dad. Big wrench got thrown in the plans that we thought we had. Now Lauren’s showing \u2014got one on the way. That’s \u2014” Rhett paused while Lauren stepped out, revealing the ultrasound, before continuing, “five under 10. Hey what can I say. Yeah life changes. You wake up ain’t nothing the same. Yeah life changes.”<\/p>\n
“Here we go again! We\u2019ve got some really excited big sisters in our house. God is so good.” the pair captioned the post.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Country Star Carly Pearce Opens Up About Her Lifelong Mental Health Struggles<\/a><\/p>\n Rhett and Akins met in elementary school and married in 2012. They are parents to four daughters: Willa Gray, 9, Ada James, 8, Lennon Love, 5, and Lillie Carolina, 3.<\/p>\n In the comment section, Rhett’s country family congratulated the pair on the happy news.<\/p>\n “Congrats man! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f,” wrote Brantley Gilbert. “Hallllllelujah!! \ud83d\ude0d” said Hayley Hubbard.<\/p>\n “Let\u2019s gooooooooo\u2026congrats y\u2019all.” added Jordan Davis.<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Jelly Roll\u2019s New Song Has Fans Saying the Same Thing<\/a><\/p>\n In an interview with People in 2024, Rhett described fatherhood as “beautiful chaos.”<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s changed my life. It’s chaos, but it’s beautiful chaos,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cThere are days where it’s like, ‘Good Lord, at what time are we going to bed?’ But I think as they’re getting older, it’s been the biggest blessing in my life.”<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfacSIGN UP for Parade\u2019s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox<\/a>\ud83c\udfac<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Aug 26, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins’ family is getting bigger! The couple shared the news via a joint Instagram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,71978,71977],"class_list":{"0":"post-98257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lauren-akins","13":"tag-thomas-rhett"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}