Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Billie Lourd and Austen Rydell have preferred to keep details about their romance on the down low — but they have still offered glimpses at their road to happily ever after over the years.
The couple first sparked romance rumors in 2016 after they were spotted spending time together. Later that year, Lourd and Rydell briefly pulled the plug on their relationship. At the time, the actress moved on with her Scream Queens costar Taylor Lautner.
In 2017, the American Horror Story alum reunited with her ex-boyfriend after parting ways with Lautner. At the time, an eyewitness told Us Weekly that the duo attempted to be discrete when they attended an event in West Hollywood. Rydell watched as his girlfriend answered questions on the red carpet before they were spotted kissing inside of the film festival.
After four years of dating, Rydell and Lourd announced that they were engaged in June 2020. Lourde secretly welcomed their first child together later that year. The actress clarified that her son was “not technically a quarantine baby” and was “conceived before” the coronavirus pandemic.
“He’s technically just a Caribbean baby,” Lourd joked in an interview with Bruce Bozzi in January 2021. “I got to keep it to myself, and only my family knew and nobody else knew. Everyone was so surprised when we posted that little picture of his feet, and it got to just be something I shared with the people I loved the most, which was so incredible and made my pregnancy so magical and wonderful, which I did not expect it was going to be, but it turned out to be the greatest experience.”
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