All About Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's Daughter

Mar. 15, 2025

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Frances Bean Cobainis a mom!

She and Riley Hawk, son of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, welcomed their first child,son Ronin Walker Cobain Hawk, in September 2024 — nearly a year after the coupletied the knot in October 2023. Frances was formerly married to guitarist Isaiah Silva.

“I just want things to be good for her, but she’s a lot like me and a lot like her dad,” Love told PEOPLE in 2007 ofraising her daughter in the public eye. “I think she got the best of both of us, so there’s that.“Though Lovelost custodyof Frances in 2009, the mother-daughter duo have worked on their relationship over the years.

Here’s everything to know about Frances, who once jokingly referred to herself as “the O.G. Blue Ivy.”

She’s an artist

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She can sing

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Another trait Frances inherited from her famous parents? Her singing talent. The 30-year-old has continued her dad’s creative legacy through art, but she’s also tried her hand at music, posting snippets of her own songs, including one she wrote to honor her dad titled “Angel.”

“I would hope thathe would be proudof the human being I am even if he didn’t like the art I am putting out,” Frances told E! News in 2018. “With regards to music, I don’t want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist because I feel like it’s all-encompassing and I feel like every bit of my art is related to the other.”

She’s not a huge Nirvana fan

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Despite her dad’s role as lead vocalist for Nirvana, Frances isn’t a huge fan of their music. “I don’t really like Nirvana that much,” she toldRolling Stonein 2015. However, Frances also told the publication that she respects her father’s work and ambition.

She also noted that she does love the song “Dumb” from Nirvana’s 1993 albumIn Utero, tellingRolling Stonethat she cries every time she hears it. “It’s a stripped-down version of Kurt’s perception of himself — of himself on drugs, off drugs, feeling inadequate to be titled the voice of a generation,” she explained.

She was married to guitarist Isaiah Silva

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In June 2014, Francesmarriedsinger and guitarist Isaiah Silva. The union was short-lived, with the news breaking that Frances had filed fordivorcein March 2016.

She had a near-death experience

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When she marked her30th birthdayin August 2022, she again reflected on the experience. “An event on a plane which brought me closer in proximity to death is ironically the event that catapulted me towards running at this lived experience with radical gratitude,” Frances wrote onInstagram.

She’s rebuilding her relationship with her mother

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Frances and her mother havefamouslyhad a rocky relationship, but they seem to be rebuilding their bond in recent years. “When my mom is on a right and healthy path, she is one of the most fulfilling, beautiful, intelligent and kind people I ever met,” she said in a2019 appearanceon theRuPaul: What’s the Tee?podcast.“This is what I like to call the era of balance, and I hope that we’re bringing in the era of balance.”

She’s been open about her sobriety

In 2018, Frances shared on Instagram that she was celebrating two years ofsobrietyin an emotional post. “The fact that I’m sober isn’t really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately,” she wrote about keeping her struggles private. “But I think it’s more important to put aside my fear about being judged or misunderstood or typecast as one specific thing.”

In her30th birthday post, she again reflected on the “destructive coping mechanisms” she used in her early 20s, noting how far she’s come on her journey to self-acceptance.

She feels “guilt” over inheriting her father’s fortune

During her appearance onRuPaul’s podcast, Frances opened up about hercomplicated relationship with money, explaining she feels “guilt” over the wealth she inherited because she “didn’t earn it.”

“My relationship to money is different because I didn’t earn it. And so it’s almost like this big, giant loan that I’ll never get rid of,” she shared. “I have an almost foreign relationship to it or guilt because it feels like money from somebody that I’ve never met, let alone earned myself.”

Frances also said she previously struggled with managing her money, but getting sober helped her learn balance.

“I’d say in the last two years, I’ve taken real accountability at looking at every little thing and talking with the people in charge of my money,” she said. “And also realizing that you don’t have to live lavishly to live well. The one way that I was shown how to live was to … live beyond your means and live in excess. It took me stepping away from that and getting sober in order to realize that no matter how much money you think you have, it’s not permanent.”

She and Riley Hawk wed in October 2023

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In January 2022, after a year-long hiatus from Instagram, Frances took to the platform to reveal that she wasdating Riley Hawk, the son of skateboarding legendTony Hawk. In her post, she shared an adorable photo of Riley holding a dog at Christmas, along with a photo of the pair cuddling while on a boat with Riley’s parents.

She pays tribute to her dad on social media

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On the30th anniversary of Kurt’s death, Frances penned a beautiful post about grief and growth on Instagram.

“The biggest lesson learned through grieving for almost as long as I’ve been conscious is that it serves a purpose. As It turns out, there is no greater motivation for leaning into loving awareness than knowing everything ends,” she wrote in April 2024. “I wish I could’ve known my Dad. But there is also deep wisdom being on an expedited path to understanding how precious life is. He gifted me a lesson in death that can only come through the LIVED experience of losing someone.”

Frances continued: “Kurt wrote me a letter before I was born. The last line of it reads, “wherever you go or wherever I go, I will always be with you.” He kept this promise.”

She and Riley Hawk share one child

Hawk and Frances' first child,Ronin Walker Cobain Hawk, was born on Sept. 17, 2024.

“Welcome to the world most beautiful son. We love you more than anything,” the new mom wrote on Instagram.

source: people.com