This year, Riley Keough and Ben Smith-Petersen will celebrate their 8-year wedding anniversary. Their enduring marriage is the product of a whirlwind romance.
Here's what to know about their relationship.British VogueWhile she knew his name, Keough was in a relationship at the time, and wasn't"looking at anyone in that way."
In 2013, a year after meeting Smith-Petersen in Namibia, Keough and her castmates took a trip to Sydney, Australia, for reshoots. Now single, Keough said she took note of the stuntman. “Ben was on set and I saw him. It had been a year, and he just felt more grown up and there was something about him. I was like, ‘Oh wow.’ He felt so much more mature,” she wrote.When one of her friends had a"little cozy get-together" at their house, she decided to invite Smith-Petersen to the event.
That's when Keough said she noticed a"connection." Later that night, they shared their first kiss. “I felt like I didn’t want to be away from him,” she wrote.After connecting with Ben-Petersen, Keough decided to extend her stay in Australia. She" in love with Australia," and with Ben-Petersen., Keough detailed their adventures together — including getting matching tattoos their third time hanging out,"just for fun, never thinking the relationship would go anywhere.
Within a week, Keough wrote that she already felt attached to him. She remembered thinking, “I can’t leave him. I feel like this is something really special.”in 2016. “You know when you feel weird when you first start dating someone, or like you don’t want to eat in front of them, you wake up and put make up on or something weird? I just always felt very comfortable with him, always wanted to be near him, even from the beginning.
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