Stars React to Viral ‘Nepo Baby’ Article, Claims of Favoritism in Hollywood: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lily Allen and More

Refresh for more The first string of presenters for the 80th Golden Globe Awards were unveiled this morning and that includes Ana de Armas, Ana Gasteyer, Billy Porter, Colman Domingo, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Natasha Lyonne, Nicole Byer, Niecy Nash, Quentin Tarantino and Tracy Morgan. As the Hollywood Foreign Press Association looks to get back on its feet after weathering diversity controversies, it has been buzzed that personal reps wouldn’t allow their clients to get back on stage. However, as the HFPA has expanded its ranks with journalists of color, it appears that the industry is pivoting in its attitude toward the organization.

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.

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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.

culminating in an exhaustive report by , Jamie Lee Curtis—daughter of actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis—shared a lengthy defense of the entertainment industry's most privileged children. “There’s not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars,” the self-described “OG Nepo Baby” . “The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.” continued, "For the record, I have navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don't pretend there aren't any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own.

Lily Allen won’t stand for nepo baby slander any longer! But, um, is this really the argument she’s going with??

, 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.

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