Gwyneth Paltrow Teams Up With Hailey Bieber To Mock Nepo Baby Debate
By Kay on January 9, 2023 at 6:30 PM EST
Gwyneth Paltrow and Hailey Bieber slyly teamed up to throw shade on the Nepo baby hate currently trending in Hollywood.
Hailey Bieber’s Shirt Says It All
Over the weekend the model and fellow nepo baby walked the streets of L.A. in a cropped t-shirt that read, “Nepo Baby”. She proudly wore the title on her chest. A controversial move for the 26-year-old who looks ready for the backlash.
The topic has been plaguing Hollywood for weeks since an article dropped, hosted on Vulture and New York Magazine that did a deep dive into nepo babies; who they are, where they are, and even how worthy they are of the fame they are experiencing.
Bieber was not only mentioned in the article she was also featured in the title art along with other nepo babies like Zoe Kravitz, Ben Platt, Dakota Johnson, and Lily-Rose Depp. Many of the cover nepo babies have said their piece on the topic and left it at that but Bieber is really doubling down and what? Trying to take the term back?
Gwyneth Paltrow Has Her Back
The two blondes had a conversation about the term nepo baby and the conversations being had around it on Hailey Bieber’s YouTube channel. The two agreed that while it helped them, it hasn’t defined their careers.
Many of Bieber’s followers were baffled at the tone-deaf conversation that the nepo babies were having. But the actress and the model were unbothered and now, Gwyneth is co-signing Bieber’s nepo baby shirt. “I might need a few of these,” wrote the 50-year-old in the comments section.
Some Celebrities Were Graceful
The New York Magazine article also spoke about the older generation of nepo babies like Jamie Lee Curtis who responded without malice in a post on Instagram. “I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby,” she admits proudly.
“I’ve never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on Quincy as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there’s not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars.”
She also went on to take a strong stance against the negativity around the term. “I have suited up and shown up for all different kinds of work with thousands of thousands of people and every day I’ve tried to bring integrity and professionalism and love and community and art to my work. I am not alone. There are many of us. Dedicated to our craft. Proud of our lineage. Strong in our belief in our right to exist.”
Some Celebrities Are A Little Snotty About It
Other celebs have spoken up like Lily-Rose Depp said, “The internet seems to care a lot about that kind of stuff,” she told Elle magazine to accompany the cover photoshoot. “People are going to have preconceived ideas about you or how you got there, and I can definitely say that nothing is going to get you the part except for being right for the part.”
She then went on to say, “The internet cares a lot more about who your family is than the people who are casting you in things. Maybe you get your foot in the door, but you still just have your foot in the door.”
She believes the conversation is biased. “If somebody’s mom or dad is a doctor, and then the kid becomes a doctor, you’re not going to be like, ‘Well, you’re only a doctor because your parent is a doctor.’ It’s like, ‘No, I went to medical school and trained.’ I just hear it a lot more about women, and I don’t think that it’s a coincidence.”
Tom Hanks described it as “a family business” to The Sun. “This is what we’ve been doing forever. It’s what all of our kids grew up in.”
Like Depp, he threw an analogy out there because that always makes things better. “If we were a plumbing supply business or if we ran the florist shop down the street, the whole family would be putting in time at some point, even if it was just inventory at the end of the year.”
