Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins are becoming a family of seven, announcing on Tuesday, August 26, that she’s pregnant.
The couple shared via Instagram that they are expecting their fifth baby. In a video, Akins, 35, stood beside Rhett, also 35, as he sang his 2017 hit “Life Changes” about fatherhood.
“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 — got one on the way. That’s —” Rhett briefly stopped strumming his guitar as Akins held out five fingers, “five under 10. Hey what can I say. Yeah life changes. You wake up ain’t nothing the same. Yeah life changes.”
Akins held up a sonogram to the camera as she began laughing while looking at Akins. “Here we go again!” the pair captioned the post. “We’ve got some really excited big sisters in our house. God is so good.”
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Rhett and Akins, who are high school sweethearts, became parents when they adopted daughter Willa from Uganda in May 2017.
“I called Thomas one of the first nights I met her in Uganda and told him about her,” Akins exclusively told Us Weekly in 2019. “Without hesitation, he said, ‘Bring her home. She is ours. We are going to make this happen.’”
Months later, Akins gave birth to daughter Ada. Rhett and Akins went on to welcome daughters Lennon and Lillie in February 2020 and November 2021, respectively.
When asked whether he and Akins wanted to expand their family, Rhett shared in his 2024 Us cover story that the pair are “both really happy with four.”
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“Lillie’s starting school, so we’ve been like giddy little kids saying, ‘What are we going to do with eight hours a day, three days a week?’” he said at the time. “But it wouldn’t be shocking if a fifth [came along] in the next three or four years.”
While reflecting on parenthood, Rhett shared that he wished he could tell his former self on the first day of being a father to “cherish it.”
“It’s easy to wish away the hard years. [Lauren] calls them the ‘wiping years’ — wiping tears, wiping floors, wiping butts, all of that. I’ve been a dad long enough to know how fast it goes,” he said. “One day my problems with my kids are going to be a lot different than not wanting to eat broccoli. I’m learning how to live in these moments.”
