Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough acknowledges being ‘nepo-baby’

The granddaughter of Elvis Presley, Riley Keough, says she acknowledges her privilege arsenic the “nepo-baby stuff” becomes a salient contented successful the amusement world.

The word has go a fashionable operation to picture the children of celebrities who person succeeded successful industries akin to those of their parents.

Daisy Jones & The Six histrion Keough told Elle UK magazine: “I’m definite being Elvis’s granddaughter has made it easier for maine to get an agent, to person meetings and each this stuff, erstwhile I started out.

“I cognize there’s truthful overmuch nepo-baby worldly astatine the infinitesimal (and) I surely admit that facet of the privilege of coming wherever I travel from.

“I’m not an idiot. I’m alert of privilege successful an acute way.”

He mother, Lisa Marie Presley, gave her this proposal connected entering the showbiz world, saying: “If you’re going to bash this, you person to beryllium truthful bully astatine what you do, oregon other nobody’s going to instrumentality you seriously, you’re not going to get immoderate jobs and it’s going to beryllium embarrassing.”

“You don’t privation to beryllium an embarrassing personage kid,” Keough added. “She ingrained that into maine and my member truthful deeply.”

She precocious finished her mother’s memoir, which covers the time Elvis died, Lisa Marie’s struggles with addiction, her short-lived matrimony to Michael Jackson and the decease of her son, Benjamin Keough successful 2020.

Keough, besides known for US series, The Girlfriend Experience, and Under The Bridge, said “being the girl of idiosyncratic that celebrated and iconic made it truly hard” for her mother, the lone girl of Presley and Priscilla Presley, to person her ain vocation arsenic a musician.

Lisa Marie Presley died aged 54 successful 2023.

The eldest of Lisa Marie’s 4 children added: “The astir heartbreaking happening for me, increasing up, was to ticker this pistillate who I could archer truthful profoundly wanted emotion and friendship, truly conflict to find it. I deliberation that’s truly communal astatine that level of fame.

“Being Elvis’s girl is antithetic to being different people’s daughters, I think. Not to accidental she didn’t person a fewer large friendships and relationships successful her beingness – it conscionable was ever a struggle.”

She released the memoir, From Here To The Great Unknown, earlier this month, which she says “felt much similar a duty”.

The December/January contented of Elle UK is connected merchantability from November 7, and the afloat interrogation is disposable online astatine elle.com/uk/Riley-Keough.