Ryan Phillippe Shares Rare Selfie with 12-Year-Old Daughter Kai: 'Best Thanksgiving'

Mar. 15, 2025

Ryan Phillippe smiles with daughter Kai (middle) and her three friends on Thanksgiving.Photo:Ryan Phillippe/Instagram

Ryan Phillippe/Instagram

Ryan Phillippeis spending some quality time with his youngest.

On Monday, the actor, 49, shared a series of photos tohis Instagramfrom his Thanksgiving celebrations, which included a rare selfie with his 12-year-old daughter Kai. In the photo, Phillippe is sitting in the driver’s seat of a car while Kai sits in the back between two friends, wearing a blue scarf.

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“Had the BEST Thanksgiving wknd w these lil beauties. Sawyer, Ever, Kai & Isla. Pizza was had, Elf was watched, Young Sheldon was binged(along w teen romance anime),” the proud dad wrote in his caption.

{Boba was had, boardwalk shopping, cooking of pancakes was attempted, and we found some fake snow. + the eagles beat buffalo in OT and moved to 10-1, but I think that only mattered to me.😊."

Phillippe shares daughter Kai with exAlexis Knapp. He is also dad to daughter Ava and son Deacon, who he shares with ex-wifeReese Witherspoon.

When Kai was less than 3 months old, Knapp began filming the hit musical comedy filmPitch Perfect. “No one understood how it was possible to breastfeed a newborn throughout the whole rehearsal and filming 14+ hour days for 3 magical months, but i told them ‘you’d be amazed at what you can do, when you have to….,’ " Knapp wrote on Instagram alongside athrowback photo of her and Kai.

Now that she’s older, Kai has joined Knapp at several red carpet events over the years, including the 2019 premiere of Netflix’sGreen Eggs and Hamand a 2022 release event forMinions: The Rise Of Gru.

source: people.com