Let’s Be Nepo Babies

I'm a 6 on a good day, but OMG I got a whole lotta top modelling contracts!

I don't think that's the right way to use nepo/nepotism, OP, but I get your meaning. So I'm... Elon Musk and his trans kid who rebels against his anti-woke agenda. How awkward.

Even though my dad is the director, I still had to go down the same route as every other actress.

So maybe my dad plays a leading role on The Crown, but I worked my butt off to get this role.

At no stage did my family name entice Kate and Naomi to model at my degree show.

Like for real, I'm still in high school but I got my own writing gig in a batch of fashion mags.

I worked for what I have, my parents barely helped me. All they did was pay for my apartment for 6 years and sometimes if I need to borrow a really small amount of money like 10 or 20,000 dollars they'll help me. But if I can do it anybody can. Just work hard.

My unsurpassed beauty made me a star!

I'm a Grammy winner!

Rapper, actor, model....is there any beginning to my talents?

My natural talent as a chef is just mine and mine alone. Michel Le Roux, Nigella and Gordon are only trotting after me.

When I auditioned for the role of Donna Martin, the casting directors didnt know who I was, I swear! I even auditioned under a fake name!

My dad and I both died so young hardly anybody ever dares to harp on the nepo aspect of my tragically short film career.

As I often say to dear Gwyneth, we did it all on our own, girl!

I like lit a lot pf candles and make them so they spell things like Fascism and Parrot and take a photograph. Usually in black and whilte and with a real camera. I’ve got a book deal but it’s not nepotism as my parents are actors, not photographers.

[quote] I worked for what I have, my parents barely helped me. All they did was pay for my apartment for 6 years and sometimes if I need to borrow a really small amount of money like 10 or 20,000 dollars they'll help me. But if I can do it anybody can. Just work hard.

Are you famous and/or working a job you got through your family connections, R7?

[quote] Nigella

Just saw that she is the daughter of some really wealthy people, on both sides of her family. I guess somebody could argue she is a kind of "nepo baby" herself, if that is what this thread is going for.

[quote] Brandon Lee

I liked him in what I saw him in. Are we calling "nepo babies" everyone that comes from wealthy/connected families, or just the no-talents?

Also, R7: have your parents been paying your mortgage for the past six years? And these 10 to 20,000 dollar amounts, what do you use them for - do you go to Dubai or something? And the rest of the time, are you partying hard all night and sipping on martinis all day long? Still about the money, if you're not paying your parents back, you're not 'borrowing' anything.

And finally, R7: do you go around telling people that if they "work hard" they'll actually get things? Because if you do that, you're a cunt.

R17, I think of nepo babies as people whose ways were made easy by parents they don’t credit with having provided leverage for them but whose name recognition and rep obviously provided them with a coattail.

My own first entry — the billionaire’s child — doesn’t really fit in with that, so I have to say the thread may sprawl a bit..

Nasty OP started this thread to cause hurt.

I’m not answering that! I’m calling my dad! Me and my ugly face would’ve made it even without help!

I didn’t use my last name! Ask my mommy she’ll tell you.

I'm Leni MyMotherIsHeidiKlum.

I'm a beautiful runway and fashion model (mostly lingerie) because of my own unique beauty and "talents."

Oh, Jamie at R20, how could I have forgotten you! What a wretch I am. Clutch your Oscar and gloat, dear. I do almost sincerely apologize.

I see, OP. Because if we're going to name names, and widen up the concept, we're going to have to talk about Liza, for example. And Jane Fonda. These two, along with people like Angelina and even Goop (as much as I dislike her) are all cases of actually having something about them, whether it be talent, drive, star quality etc. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been as successful as they were/are. Jamie Lee and Brandon Lee (in my opinion) fit into that as well. Nigella, too, if somebody wants to start calling her a nepo baby.

When it comes to Ben Platt, here's the thing (and again, this is my opinion). As insufferable as he may be, the little bitch is very talented. Different from e.g. Beanie. Like it or not, if you've got eyes and ears, you cannot really say that Platt is a no-talent, can you?

But I see you are not R7, OP. I really want to hear from Miss R7, understand what the logic was behind her post.

I honestly thought r7 was a joking post.

R25 I am r7 and my post was mocking people who are oblivious to the magnitude of their privilege. I am currently homeless and I’ve never had a “family”.

I thought R7 was a joke, too.

Holy fuck I just checked Tesla’s stock. OP’s post reminded me I haven’t checked lately. When Musk bought Twitter the stock crashed down to @ $120/share. Over the last year I e seen people saying, “Ha, he’s going broke, He’s losing money like crazy.” So I’d look at the stock and see it was holding steady in the neighborhood of @$145. So he wasn’t losing money. He’d made some of his money back and it was stable.

When I saw OP’s post I said damn, I haven’t looked at Tesla lately.

$248!

It went up $100.

Must’ve been a good earning report.

Oh…might I add…..Damn musk to hell

There is no karma in this world

So the person you describe at R7 is NOT a nepo baby, R27?

It's a shame it's not you - I thought you were in Aspen right now, taking a skiing lesson, wearing a crème sweater.

Sorry about your homeless situation. You've still got your cell phone, though, and a credit card, seeing as you're posting on Datalounge right now, so that is 'good', right? (Or is it?)

R31 no it isn’t fucking good

I'm all the times I got rejected when trying to get a foot in the door, and the toll those experiences have taken on my mental health.

When they told me that as a natural blonde, I wasn't "ideal" for the role of Cleopatra, that was, like, literally THE worst moment of my life. Like, ever. I'm still seeing a therapist three times a week to deal with my complex PTSD🥹

I'm Jamie Lee. I will exhaust you with appearances, manic word salads and remind you constantly who my parents were until you give me an OSCARRRRR goddamnit!

Like I said, R32, I'm sorry. I hope things improve for you.

R35 Thank you. I'm just keeping my head above water. Every time I seem close to dragging myself out of this hell there's some bad luck or a set back. The way I figure it, that just means I need one stroke of good luck to make all the difference. It could happen.

I can’t believe anyone would believe I got funding for my TV and movie comedies just because both my parents were well known comedians. I’m angered by people suggesting my parents had anything to do with that. I did it myself and I work really hard. My father being on one of the most successful tv comedies of all time? …that’s meaningless. I have to get up early to have my makeup and hair done at the studio even before I start my work day in front of and behind the camera. I mean shit man, this is a real job I do.

R36, I don't know what this is about, but I wish you all good things.

I'm a model AND an actress!

At least, like Nick Cage, you didn't choose to go all Coppola/Streep, Mamie. And you're actually a good actress.

I'm Academy Award Winner Jamie Lee Curtis. I won an Oscar you know.

I'm Lola...er...Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon...um, wait: Lolahol!! Yeah, that's it.

I'm a TRIPLE threat: model, singer AND college graduate.

I'm Emma Roberts. Self made with hard work and a hell of a left hook.

R38 I’m the same poster, sorry, I almost never check to display my username.

R44 or maybe you meant you don’t know what my situation is about. That seems more likely actually, my bad.

I'm Apple Martin. My cocked eye will get taken care of an then I will be a STAR!

I’m Christina, and I’m our of the will for reasons well known to me.

*out (oh dear and Jesus Christ)

I’m Timothee Chalamet. Without my family connections, I would, at best, be oh the horror a theater actor or character actor.

My mom is very influential in my career.

I’m Hunter Biden’s massive cock.

I'm the special gilded nepo nappies I wore as a baby.

What’s worse is the nepo parents who deny the fact that their fugly, unremarkable offspring would never get so much as a callback without their famous last name.

I'm Meghan McCain. Stop asking me who my father was, I'm not telling! My keen intelligence, good looks and pleasing personality are what earned me well deserved gigs on ABC News, GMA and The View.

Dear Abby,

I am a common criminal who got picked up from the joint and handed a federal contract with untold benefits who will retire with a pension. I have medical, dental and visual, plenty of paid sick days, paid annual leave, paid temporary leave, paid educational programs and *three weekly hours of paid fitness time*. I am unqualified for the job I do and had never even sought it out, yet was given this job and hold it anyway, with all my expenses paid, and a more-than-handsome salary (considering what I am). If not for the random blessing of the Baby J, I would be either inside a cell or dead or in the streets. My magnum opus is that I committed a crime and got caught, and because I got caught, I am here right now. I am utterly and completely oblivious to the sheer magnitude of my privilege (it is actually quite unheard of); I am so dumb, in fact, I had never even stopped to think about it until someone pointed it out to me. I can't do the most basic of tasks, but still haven't been fired and sent back to the big house.

Am I a nepo baby?

(It's a joke, of course.)

Let’s be (insert cliche here).

You’re an unimaginative retard, OP

I'm cunt Laura Dern.

Two of the three PLEASE DON'T DESTROY guys on SNL are nepoids, to coin a word.

The only NOT is the ginger.

r56 Found the nepo baby.

I'm Charlie Sheen. I used my father's Hollywood name surname unlike my brother Emilio. Winning!

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