It’s the controversy of the year: nepo babies!
20.12.2022 - 20:55 / glamour.com
, took to Twitter to vent her frustrations about the term. Presumably in response to , the British pop star wrote on Twitter, “The nepo babies y’all should be worrying about are the ones working for legal firms, the ones working for banks, and the ones working in politics, If we’re talking about real world consequences and robbing people of opportunity. BUT that’s none of my business.” Except apparently it is her business, because she also took the time to respond to some of her critics in the comments. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“In childhood we crave stability and love, nurturing, we don’t care about money or proximity to power yet.
Many of the nepo babies are starved of these basic things in childhood as their parents are probably narcissistic,” Allen, whose , wrote in the comments. Commenters on Twitter pointed out a few flaws in Allen's arguments.
One, nepotism can exist in multiple industry sectors at once and both can have consequences. And two, narcissistic parents are not exclusive to the entertainment business. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.If you were wondering, as I was, why Allen seems so personally offended when she was not even mentioned in the New York Magazine story, you may not be surprised to learn that “nepo-baby” discourse is something she's tweeted about before.
“Can we start a list of male nepo babies, for balance,” she in November. “I’ll go first.
It’s the controversy of the year: nepo babies!
There’s been nothing trending more over the past two weeks than the term “nepo baby.” Thanks to New York Magazine’s articles on the subject this month, the phrase is the talk of Hollywood, the press, and, unfortunately, many family holiday celebrations. So, what’s a nepo baby, anyway? As per Today, “a nepo baby, in case you haven’t heard, is the offspring of a famous person who follows their parent into the creative industries, and often is met with success despite the competition.” In other words, many Hollywood actors and actresses qualify as nepo babies, and some aren’t happy about the newfangled terminology.
Kate Hudson and Jamie Lee Curtis are the latest Hollywood actors to weigh in on the topic of the “nepo baby,” a topic rekindled this month by a New York magazine cover story (and much more devoted to the topic) about the phenomena of the children of famous actors who follow in their parents’ footsteps.
If you’re not terminally online, on Twitter, or part of The Cut Industrial Culture Complex, you may not have heard about the current “Nepo Baby” discourse online. The shortest version to not insult those who find it pervasive and obvious, is the New York Mag wrote a “The Year of the Nepo Baby” “exposé” (infographic basically with some quizzes and articles) detailing those famous celebrities that are the children of other well-known celebrities.
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