Gwyneth Paltrow Rejects ‘Nepo Baby’ Term Because ‘There’s Nothing Wrong With Doing What Your Parents Do’: It’s an ‘Ugly Moniker’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Gwyneth Paltrow briefly entered the “nepo baby” discourse in January when she commented on an Instagram post of Hailee Bieber wearing a shirt with the moniker on it and wrote: “I might need a few of these.” Now Paltrow, the daughter of actor Blythe Danner and director/producer Bruce Paltrow who is an Oscar winner in her own right, entered the discourse more forcefully by telling Bustle the term “nepo baby” is an “ugly moniker.” “Now there’s this whole nepo baby culture, and judgment that exists around kids of famous people,” Paltrow said when her 19-year-old daughter Apple got brought up. “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.” “Nobody rips on a kid who’s like, ‘I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad,'” Paltrow continued. “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 of 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,” she continued about “nepo baby” term. “I just hope that my children always feel free to pursue exactly what they want to do, irrespective of what anybody’s going to think or say.” The term, short for nepotism baby, went viral in late 2022 due to a New York Magazine cover story on the topic.
It prompted many actors who are the children of actors to speak out on the matter. Kate Hudson, the daughter of actors Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, shrugged off the term in an interview with The Independent. “The nepotism thing,.
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