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Tim McGraw shared a beautiful tribute to his daughter, Audrey, on her 22nd birthday Wednesday.
The crooner shared a photo of his and Faith Hill’s youngest daughter on Instagram with a birthday message that can only be described as gushing.
“Happy 22nd birthday to our baby girl Audrey!” McGraw began. “The sweetest, kindest soul. Beautiful for sure, however, her inside beauty is so huge and so genuine. She looks at the world with love and empathy. And that’s where true beauty lies.”
“We love you baby girl!!!” he concluded.
Hill also marked Audrey’s birthday on Instagram, though her tribute was more teasing than sentimental.
"22 years ago today Audrey decided she was ready to begin the great adventure of life,” she wrote alongside a video of her daughter serenading the family dogs with an invisible trumpet. “Coming in strong at 8 weeks early, we all felt she was ahead of us and we needed to catch up.”
McGraw and Hill celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary in October. They share three daughters: Gracie, 26; Maggie, 25; and Audrey, 22.
Audrey was the last to move out of her parents’ Nashville home in 2022. She and oldest sister Gracie live in New York City where they’re both pursuing careers in entertainment. Maggie, who graduated with a masters degree from Stanford in 2021, currently lives in Tennessee.
McGraw opened up about becoming empty nesters in an August interview with Apple Music.
“The first six months were rough, and it's always rough for a mom, of course,” he shared, “but after about six months, it was like, ‘Turn the music on, light some candles,’ because we got a thing and we were talking, we got married, and I'm not going to do the math, but we had a kid pretty quickly after we got married, and so we didn't really have a lot of time to know each other.”
“We got married, had a baby, and now it's like we're kind of on our second honeymoon… but we're enjoying it,” McGraw continued. “Now when the kids come home, it's like, if they're there for five days or so, we're like…Don't you have somewhere to go? Mom and dad need a little candlelight time."