Liv Tyler 'Felt A Connection' To Steven Tyler Before She Discovered That He Was Her Biological Father

Apr 05, 2022

When it comes to rock royalty, very few people can compare to Steven Tyler. He is best known as the lead singer of the band Aerosmith and is known for his amazing skills as a singer, musician and overall performer. Steven has a huge vocal range, allowing him to belt and scream high notes while mesmerizing countless audiences along the way. Some of his best-known songs with Aerosmith include "Dream On," Walk This Way," and "Sweet Emotion."

While fans of the rock legend probably think meeting Steven would be life-changing, that's exactly what it was like for his biological daughter Liv Tyler. Liv is best known as an actress and clearly inherited many of her father's genes as she can also sing. Some of her most popular films include the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The Incredible Hulk," and "The Strangers."

Although Liv is the daughter of Steven, she didn't know it for many years of her childhood. Her mother is Bebe Buell, a singer and model who has dated the likes of many musicians, including Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello and, of course, Steven. She had an on-again, off-again relationship with musician and producer Todd Rundgren for most of the 1970s, during which Buell gave birth to Liv. 

During one of her off periods from Rundgren, Buell became pregnant, as she had a very brief relationship with Steven. Both Liv and the general public didn't know who Liv's true father was for many years, as Liv grew up under the impression that Rundgren was her real father until she met the Aerosmith frontman.

Growing up, Liv was under the impression that Rundgren was her father, as he had been the one to sign her birth certificate, according to Biography. Even though the Utopia singer knew there was a chance that Liv wasn't his daughter as Buell had had a fling with Steven, he still gave Liv his last name and stepped up to raise her like his own.

To this day, Liv still has a wonderful relationship with Rundgren. Speaking with the Guardian, Liv said, "I'm so grateful to Todd for choosing to be a father figure to me. It's a big thing for a man to say, 'I know this kid might not be mine, but I still want to be her father.' Although he and my mom weren't together, he was always a very stable, loving force in my life."

Buell was only 23 years old when she gave birth to Liv on July 1, 1977. According to Biography, Buell had kept the fact of who Liv's father was a secret because Steven was reportedly dealing with substance abuse issues at the time. Buell said that she and Rundgren "made a pact that he would be Liv's father and if it ever became an issue, we'd tell her at 18."

However, Liv discovered the truth much earlier than that. During an interview with Jonathan Ross in 2015, Liv talked about the moment when she realized that Steven was her biological father. "Well I was 8 when I found out that he was my dad," she said. "I have two fathers, kind of."

Liv continued:

"It's quite an emotional story, honestly, the whole thing because it was, you know, my mother was very young when she had me and there was a little bit of confusion about where I came from. But I was very loved and very well taken care of by all my family, which was wonderful."

Learning that Steven was her father was a life-changing moment for Liv. "It was a moment that was bigger than me, it was almost spiritual," she explained. "When you meet kin, there is an energy and sparkle between your bodies. It must be chemical somehow – DNA and genes." She continued, "I felt a connection in a very strong way when I met him as a little girl and I didn't know why at first, but I figured it out rather quickly."

One of the main reasons that made Liv think Steven was her father was how similar they looked. "Steven and I look so alike and we do things in the same way," Liv said. It wasn't just her resemblance to the Aerosmith singer that gave Liv a clue into her relationship with him, but also her resemblance to his daughter Mia. "My sister Mia will just move her hand in a certain way and the mannerism is so like mine, it's crazy," she said.

Liv is now a parent herself and has three children. She welcomed her first son Milo in December 2004 with then-husband Royston Langdon – an English musician. She later went on to have a son named Sailor and a daughter named Lula with British sports and entertainment manager David Gardner.

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