Lauren Akins Celebrates Daughter Ada James with Fun Snaps for Her 7th Birthday: 'Just a Little Late'

Mar. 15, 2025

Lauren Akins holds daughter Ada.Photo:Lauren Akins/Instagram

Lauren Akins/Instagram

Lauren Akinsis sharing her love for her daughter as she celebrates her birthday.

In the post, Ada can be seen smiling big in a selfie with her mom, hanging with horses and her dad, holding up her lost front tooth and posing with her disco ball-covered birthday cake.

“Your heart is so beautiful, brave and full of compassion🥰 and I am having so much fun getting to be your mommy and watching you SHINE ✨,” Akins continued in her caption. “You are so loved Ada James 🎈🎂☀️🩵💕.”

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Thomas Rhett, 34, and Akins also share daughtersWilla Gray, 8½,Lennon Love, 4½, andLillie Carolina, 2½.

While speaking to PEOPLE following the release of his highly anticipated studio albumAbout a Woman, Thomas Rhett shared that his goal was the make music that would make his kids “want to move.”

“It was just like, man, my last couple albums, there’d be so many songs that my kids wanted to skip or that my wife wanted to skip,” the “Craving You” singer told PEOPLE. “I don’t really know the reason why except that it didn’t make them want to dance. I really wanted to make sure that my wife and kids felt like this was one that put a smile on their face and has really made ‘em want to move.”

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Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akin with their children.Lauren Akins/Instagram

“I began touring with my husband,” she explained, adding that, “His life went on, and mine stopped. I felt like we weren’t doing it together anymore.”

Akins admitted, “I just hit a breaking point, where I didn’t like him and I resented him.”

To resolve their issues, the couple participated in a “mini intensive counseling session” for over two days, where the two “shared everything,” she said. “And some of it was really hard to hear from each other, so we really just did a restart.”

source: people.com