Lauren Akins reveals why her marriage to Thomas Rhett is not perfect


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Lauren Akins‘Life may not be a fairy tale, but it certainly provides a good story.

Fans have come to know and admire Lauren as the beloved wife of country music superstar Thomas Rhett and mother of three adoring daughters, Willa Gray, 4, Ada James, 3, en Lennon Love, 6 months. While they always look perfect on red carpets and post the funniest family photos on social media, things were not always so idyllic for them behind the scenes.

In her new memoir, LIVE IN LOVE: growing together through the changes of life, on August 18, Lauren goes into detail about meeting her high school sweetheart for the first time and finding her journey to love. For Lauren, writing the book was a therapeutic and exhausting process because she wanted to make people understand that their marriage, though terribly loving, was not flawless.

“It’s so easy to look at our family and our marriage from the outside and just see what looks like a perfect, happy family, but it’s just not realistic,” she told E! News in an exclusive interview. That she wanted to “share with the struggle to get there like the struggle we have now, and just be real and open with people so they don’t look at us and like‘ Oh, they have it all together , ‘they’re so perfect,’ because that could not be further from the truth. ‘