Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about her feelings around the “nepo baby” term, which is used for those kids of famous parents. Paltrow is the daughter of actress Blythe Danner and director Bruce Paltrow and says that label is an “ugly moniker.”
In an interview with Bustle, the idea of helping her daughter Apple, whom she shares with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, came up but Paltrow says “She’s a very private person.”
“Now there’s this whole nepo baby culture, and judgment that exists around kids of famous people,” Paltrow said during the interview. “She’s really just a student, and she’s been very… She just wants to be a kid and be at school and learn. But there’s nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents do.”
She continued, “Nobody rips on a kid who’s like ‘I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad.’ The truth is if you grow up in a house with a lot of artists and people making art and music, that’s what you know, the same way that if you grow up in a house with law, the discussions around the table are about the nuances of whatever particular law the parents practice. I think it’s kind of an ugly moniker.”
Paltrow said that she hopes her kids “always feel free to pursue exactly what they want to do, irrespective of what anybody’s going to think or say.”
The debate around nepotism in Hollywood is ongoing and earlier this year Sean Penn and Robin Wright’s son Hopper Penn said he didn’t care if people thought he was a “nepo baby” for following his parents’ footsteps. Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia entered the modeling world and doesn’t deny the privilege she had to be part of the industry her mother thrived in. “I have a really great source of information and someone to give me great advice, that alone I feel very fortunate for,” Kaia told Elle earlier this year.
Major Karen vibes…
This woman is like a walking parody of an SNL skit
Well, she would, wouldn’t she.
That is unfortunate.
Lord, why can’t we just get rid of Gwyneth and Jada? Lol
Classic characteristic of nepo babies is being highly bothered by being labeled nepo babies
Whew…. for a second, I thought I was going to have to go to sleep without knowing her opinion on this topic.
No one of any consideration cares what she thinks.
This might come as a shock to her but no one’s using it as a term of endearment.
Isn’t it supposed to be an ugly moniker? It’s used to insult people and say that they only got where they were due to their family connections.
Sure, they probably work hard and have lots of talent, but so do all the other people nobody has heard of because they didn’t start on third base.
I’m starting to think the character she played in Great Expectations wasn’t an act.
I dislike “Nepo Baby” because it sounds catty and childish. Like the conversation is being driven by a highschool clique.
Only a “Nepo baby” could make money on a candle that smelled like her genitals.
What a take from a lunatic.
She should stick to pussy rocks and leave the thinking to actual human beings.
What is she famous for, again?
I agree with her. You’d have to be insane to not help your children in any way possible if you are rich, famous, and especially both. I don’t believe in religion or an afterlife, so you have to do everything you can to make the life you have now and that of your family’s as great as possible.
She really is a fucking caricature of an entitled out of touch rich person.
But what would you expect from a piece of shit who never jeopardized her fame to point out that it was provided by a monster.
Don’t forget in the mid 90s her greatest champion was Harvey Weinstein. Her Oscar for Shakespeare in love was orchestrated by his pressure campaign and she knew exactly who he is well before others did. She even talked about how Brad Pitt threatened to kill Weinstein on her behalf in the 90s.
But did she go to the police? Or the media?
No.
So nepo-baby is honestly the nicest descriptor you could give Gwyneth.
The Paltrows are terrible human beings.
Well if it wasn’t for nepotism she wouldn’t have a platform to complain about the term.
…she said with no sense of irony or self awareness.
I can’t stand her but to be honest her kids are not going to be working at Walmart or digging ditches and if they got a so called regular job they would be considered failures. It’s a strange set of circumstances that you’re supposed to be famous like your parents and then you’re trashed for it. I think the nepo thing has run its course.
Gwyneth Paltrow challenges the notion that even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I have never heard a useful word come out of her mouth.
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Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about her feelings around the “nepo baby” term, which is used for those kids of famous parents. Paltrow is the daughter of actress Blythe Danner and director Bruce Paltrow and says that label is an “ugly moniker.”
In an interview with Bustle, the idea of helping her daughter Apple, whom she shares with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, came up but Paltrow says “She’s a very private person.”
“Now there’s this whole nepo baby culture, and judgment that exists around kids of famous people,” Paltrow said during the interview. “She’s really just a student, and she’s been very… She just wants to be a kid and be at school and learn. But there’s nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents do.”
She continued, “Nobody rips on a kid who’s like ‘I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad.’ The truth is if you grow up in a house with a lot of artists and people making art and music, that’s what you know, the same way that if you grow up in a house with law, the discussions around the table are about the nuances of whatever particular law the parents practice. I think it’s kind of an ugly moniker.”
Paltrow said that she hopes her kids “always feel free to pursue exactly what they want to do, irrespective of what anybody’s going to think or say.”
The debate around nepotism in Hollywood is ongoing and earlier this year Sean Penn and Robin Wright’s son Hopper Penn said he didn’t care if people thought he was a “nepo baby” for following his parents’ footsteps. Cindy Crawford’s daughter Kaia entered the modeling world and doesn’t deny the privilege she had to be part of the industry her mother thrived in. “I have a really great source of information and someone to give me great advice, that alone I feel very fortunate for,” Kaia told Elle earlier this year.
Major Karen vibes…
This woman is like a walking parody of an SNL skit
Well, she would, wouldn’t she.
That is unfortunate.
Lord, why can’t we just get rid of Gwyneth and Jada? Lol
Classic characteristic of nepo babies is being highly bothered by being labeled nepo babies
Whew…. for a second, I thought I was going to have to go to sleep without knowing her opinion on this topic.
No one of any consideration cares what she thinks.
This might come as a shock to her but no one’s using it as a term of endearment.
Isn’t it supposed to be an ugly moniker? It’s used to insult people and say that they only got where they were due to their family connections.
Sure, they probably work hard and have lots of talent, but so do all the other people nobody has heard of because they didn’t start on third base.
I’m starting to think the character she played in Great Expectations wasn’t an act.
I dislike “Nepo Baby” because it sounds catty and childish. Like the conversation is being driven by a highschool clique.
Only a “Nepo baby” could make money on a candle that smelled like her genitals.
What a take from a lunatic.
She should stick to pussy rocks and leave the thinking to actual human beings.
What is she famous for, again?
I agree with her. You’d have to be insane to not help your children in any way possible if you are rich, famous, and especially both. I don’t believe in religion or an afterlife, so you have to do everything you can to make the life you have now and that of your family’s as great as possible.
She really is a fucking caricature of an entitled out of touch rich person.
But what would you expect from a piece of shit who never jeopardized her fame to point out that it was provided by a monster.
Don’t forget in the mid 90s her greatest champion was Harvey Weinstein. Her Oscar for Shakespeare in love was orchestrated by his pressure campaign and she knew exactly who he is well before others did. She even talked about how Brad Pitt threatened to kill Weinstein on her behalf in the 90s.
But did she go to the police? Or the media?
No.
So nepo-baby is honestly the nicest descriptor you could give Gwyneth.
The Paltrows are terrible human beings.
Well if it wasn’t for nepotism she wouldn’t have a platform to complain about the term.
…she said with no sense of irony or self awareness.
I can’t stand her but to be honest her kids are not going to be working at Walmart or digging ditches and if they got a so called regular job they would be considered failures. It’s a strange set of circumstances that you’re supposed to be famous like your parents and then you’re trashed for it. I think the nepo thing has run its course.
Gwyneth Paltrow challenges the notion that even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I have never heard a useful word come out of her mouth.
Lady, you ARE an ugly moniker
Clueless goop girl say what?