Meet the nepo-babies who claim having famous parents has forced them to work 'three times harder' to succeed and left them 'starved of stability and love'

Nepo babies including Gwyneth Paltrow, Lily Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis person deed backmost astatine the statement and claimed they've had to enactment 'three times harder' to succeed.

While besides claiming the realities of having celebrated parents tin permission offspring 'starved of stableness and love'.

As the specified show of a 'nepo baby' successful the limelight is guaranteed to rile radical up, galore celebrated children person insisted that moving successful the household concern is thing retired of the ordinary. 

And portion immoderate instrumentality it connected the chin, others person claimed being branded the unflattering word 'diminished and degrades' their talent.

MailOnline takes a look astatine the nepo-babies hitting back......

Gwyneth Paltrow 

Famous parents: Movie shaper Bruce Paltrow and histrion Blythe Danner 

Oscar victor Gwyneth, 53, has deed backmost astatine the nepo babies backlash and argued that she saw thing incorrect with doing oregon wanting to do what your parents do.' 

In a 2023 interrogation with Bustle, she said: 'Nobody rips connected a kid who’s like: "I privation to beryllium a doc similar my dada and granddad."'

However she insisted that her ain girl Apple, 20, is 'a precise backstage person' who has nary involvement successful adjacent modelling for Gwyneth's wellness marque Goop.

She reflected: 'Now there’s this full nepo babe culture, and judgement that exists astir kids of celebrated people. She’s truly conscionable a student, and she’s been very.... She conscionable wants to beryllium a kid and beryllium astatine schoolhouse and learn.'

Gwyneth stood up for children who articulation the aforesaid assemblage arsenic their parents, pointing retired that they are acting connected the influences they absorbed astatine home.

'The information is if you turn up successful a location with a batch of artists and radical making creation and music, that’s what you know, the aforesaid mode that if you turn up successful a location with law, the discussions astir the array are astir the nuances of immoderate peculiar instrumentality the parents practice,' she said. 'I deliberation it’s benignant of an disfigured moniker.'

She added: 'I conscionable anticipation that my children ever consciousness escaped to prosecute precisely what they privation to do, irrespective of what anybody’s going to deliberation oregon say.'

Gwyneth shares her daughter, arsenic good arsenic a lad called Moses, 18, with her ex-husband Chris Martin, who became a planetary heartthrob arsenic the frontman of Coldplay. 

Lily Allen

Famous parents:  Actor Keith Allen and movie shaper Alison Owen 

Singer Lily, 39, has fiercely deed backmost at the disapproval of nepotism babies and said galore are 'starved of stableness and love' due to the fact that of their 'narcissistic' parents.

Taking to X successful 2022 she said  people should beryllium much 'worried' astir those who onshore jobs owed to who their parents are successful the satellite of 'banks and authorities ' alternatively than showbiz.

Claiming that the entrainment manufacture and claimed it is not a 'parent friendly' concern and said these children tin beryllium 'starved' of 'love'.

Writing: 'The nepo babies y'all should beryllium worrying astir are the ones moving for ineligible firms, the ones moving for banks, and the ones moving successful politics.

'If we're talking astir existent satellite consequences and robbing radical of opportunity. BUT that's nary of my business.'

'And earlier you travel astatine maine for being a nepo babe myself, I volition beryllium the archetypal to archer you that I virtually merit nothing,' she added.

When a Twitter idiosyncratic asked her, 'Why are your parents bluish links connected Wikipedia,' she replied: 'Because I'm a nepo baby, and some my parents are ace talented.' 

Lily went connected to assertion that the amusement manufacture is not 'parent friendly' and said it tin beryllium hard to 'see one's ain privilege' erstwhile 'processing puerility trauma'. 

She continued: 'In puerility we crave stableness and love, nurturing, we don't attraction astir wealth oregon proximity to powerfulness yet. 

'Many of the nepo babies are starved of these basal things successful puerility arsenic their parents are astir apt narcissistic.

'And amusement concern is not genitor affable eg.. Touring/months distant shooting. 

'It tin beryllium hard to spot one's ain privilege erstwhile you're inactive processing puerility trauma, and a batch of these kids haven't figured that retired yet.'

 In erstwhile interviews, she besides revealed that the ending of her parents' matrimony successful 1989 near her insecure and desperately craving attention.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Famous parents: Movie star's Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis, 66, hasn't been shy astir hitting backmost astatine the nepo baby discourse and antecedently said 'there's not a time in' her 'professional beingness that goes by without her being reminded that she is 'the girl of movie stars.' 

But she had the eventual revenge erstwhile aft being awarded the Best Supporting Actress Oscar past twelvemonth for her relation successful Everything Everywhere All At Once. 

During her affectional speech, the histrion pointed retired that her movie prima parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh had some been nominated but ne'er made it to the podium.

The notation to her parents led immoderate societal media commentators to quip that it was 'the nepo baby's truest revenge' to win wherever your parents haven't. 

Jamie wrapped up her affectional code by saying, 'And my parent and my begetter were some nominated for Oscars successful antithetic categories - I conscionable won an Oscar!'

Previously penning connected Instagram:  'I person been a nonrecreational histrion since I was 19 years aged truthful that makes maine an OG Nepo Baby,' the mom-of-two wrote. 'I've ne'er understood, nor volition I, what qualities got maine hired that day, but since my archetypal 2 lines connected Quincy arsenic a declaration subordinate astatine Universal Studios to this past spectacular originative twelvemonth immoderate 44 years later.'

She continued: 'The existent speech astir nepo babies is conscionable designed to effort to diminish and denigrate and hurt.' 

'For the grounds I person navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don't unreal determination aren't any, that effort to archer maine that I person nary worth connected my own,' the Halloween Ends prima wrote connected Instagram.

The performer pointed retired that it is 'curious' that nine 'immediately marque assumptions and snide remarks' astir 'someone other who is celebrated successful their tract for their art, would someway person nary endowment whatsoever.'

Curtis insisted that the stereotype astir personage children 'is simply not true' and elaborate her hard enactment implicit the years, which has required her to enactment with 'integrity and professionalism' connected each set. 

'I americium not alone. There are galore of us. Dedicated to our craft. Proud of our lineage. Strong successful our content successful our close to exist,' she noted. 

Kate Hudson

Famous parents: Actress Goldie Hawn and instrumentalist Bill Hudson

Kate, 45, besides defended celebrated families and said relatives moving successful the aforesaid businesses are common, and that endowment shines done nary substance wherever it's found. 

She told The Independent in 2022:  'I don’t attraction wherever you travel from, oregon what your narration to the concern is - if you enactment hard and you termination it, it doesn’t matter,'

'The nepotism thing, I mean... I don’t truly care. I look astatine my kids and we’re a storytelling family. It’s decidedly successful our blood. People tin telephone it immoderate they want, but it’s not going to alteration it.' 

The Almost Famous prima said she believed that 'there are different industries wherever it’s' much prevalent.

Adding: 'Sometimes I’ve been successful concern meetings wherever I’m like, wait, "Whose kid is this? Like, this idiosyncratic knows nothing!"'

Two of her brothers, Oliver Hudson, 48, and Wyatt Russell, 38, are besides actors 

Dan Levy

Famous parents: Actor Eugene Levy 

Schitt's Creek star Dan Levy, 41, has claimed nepo babies person to enactment 'three times arsenic hard' to found their careers.

This travel contempt admitting to distancing himself from his celebrated begetter Eugene for 5 years to debar accusations that helium was the crushed down his success.

The actor, producer, and director, revealed however helium kept his household histrion nether wraps during his formative years astatine MTV Live arsenic helium wanted to found his occurrence distant from his father, 77.

It wasn't until helium believed helium had made a sanction for himself successful the manufacture that helium approached Eugene to factual deed drama bid Schitt's Creek.

'I deliberation determination was a portion of him that ever wondered wherefore I ne'er came to him.

'You cognize the culture, you cognize however casual it is to justice radical who person grown up successful the industry.'

He continued: 'I had gone done precocious schoolhouse life, to college, into MTV and they didn't cognize who my dada was erstwhile I auditioned for MTV, and they didn't cognize for 5 years.

'And then, erstwhile I felt I had established my ain narration with the assemblage and had a palmy tv show, I felt similar I had earned a spot successful the conversation, and that's erstwhile I brought him into it.

'It was lone aft that, erstwhile I had done the work, came up with the thought for Schitt's Creek, that I knew I had what it took to transportation my weight.'

'When you're successful those situations, you astir person to bash triple the work, justifiably so, to get to a spot wherever you tin go, arsenic I did, to my dada and inquire him to enactment for me.'

Schitt's Creek premiered successful 2015 and continued for six seasons, with its finale airing successful 2020.

Those accused of riding connected their parents' coattails reason that they person to graft adjacent harder to beryllium they're talented successful their ain right, but immoderate children of celebrated parents person decided to use that enactment ethic extracurricular of the showbiz industry. 

For instance, Take That star Gary Barlow recently revealed each 3 of his children are opting for a much studious path, explaining that his lad Daniel, 24, and girl Emily, 22, person decided to prosecute careers successful medicine and physiology respectively.

Celeb kids who don't effort to replicate their parents' occurrence successful the aforesaid industry, possibly conceding that they genuinely don't person the aforesaid level of talent, often extremity up piggybacking connected their occurrence successful a antithetic way.

That mightiness mean mounting themselves up arsenic 'influencers' oregon launching brands - Stella McCartney being the astir celebrated illustration - but there's a full clump who person opted for refreshingly mean vocation paths. 

Two hugely celebrated Oscar nominated actors person sons who pursuing careers arsenic chefs, portion 1 of the world's astir beloved singers is rightly arrogant of his lad who is simply a firefighter successful New Jersey.  

Here MailOnline reveals the perks of not becoming yet different nepo baby. 

Gary Barlow's lad Daniel 

Job: Medical student 

The Take That star, 53, shares Daniel, 24, Emily, 22 and Daisy, 15, with woman of 25-years Dawn Andrews, but nary of his 3 children person sought fame, contempt their father's immense success. 

Instead opting to travel a much studious path, Gary's eldest children Daniel and Emily person some decided to prosecute careers successful medicine and physiology respectively. 

Gary revealed his youngest is inactive undecided connected wherever her passions lie, but she is besides studious similar her siblings. 

Speaking to The Mirror, helium said 'The 2 oldest ones [Daniel and Emily] person benignant of gone into medicine and physiology - studying spot and conditioning - and my youngest one, Daisy, I'm not excessively definite what she's heading for but again, she's precise studious… dissimilar maine and my wife,' helium says.

'I don't deliberation they volition travel successful my euphony footsteps but I wouldn't person discouraged them though if they did privation to, it's been a bully concern for me'.

It's unclear however Daniel's vocation successful medicine is unfolding, but it's believed helium graduated past year, with his arrogant parents Gary and Dawn by his side. 

Gary has besides spoken of his pridefulness successful his super-fit lad for taking portion successful an Ironman challenge, saying: 'We conscionable couldn't beryllium prouder of our lad - unbelievable amounts of grooming and determination - erstwhile you enactment successful the enactment you get the results.'

Brian May's lad Jimmy May 

Job: Physiotherapist 

He is 1 of the biggest musicians successful the world, nevertheless the lad of Queen guitarist Brian May has wholly contrasted his dad's stone and rotation lifestyle. 

Instead of touring the world, Jimmy May, who Brian shares with his archetypal woman Chrissie Mullen, pursued a vocation arsenic a physiotherapist. 

The healthcare nonrecreational arsenic worked astatine apical Harley Street practices and adjacent trained with Sarah Key, a physiotherapist to King Charles.

Working astatine a scope of clinics passim London, it is wide Jimmy inherited his technological caput from his begetter who besides studied Maths and Physics astatine Imperial College London and went connected to implicit a PhD successful Astrophysics successful 2007. 

Ulrika Jonsson's girl Bo Jonsson 

Job: Nanny

Swedish-born Ulrika Jonsson roseate to fame successful the early 90s arsenic a upwind presenter earlier moving connected to beforehand the deed amusement Gladiators connected ITV. 

Yet her daughter, Bo, 23, has shunned this breathtaking beingness - aft grooming to beryllium a nanny for the affluent and celebrated astatine the prestigious Norland College. 

Back successful April 2023 Ulrika, 57, shared snaps with her girl aft she graduated from her assemblage people to go a nanny.

The TV prima told however arrogant she was of her girl - who was calved with a congenital bosom information - for reaching the milestone aft ever struggling with academia.

Praising much 'practical' degrees and apprenticeships she said Bo was a 'grafter and a doer' arsenic she shared snaps from the ceremonial at prestigious Norland College -where the Prince and Princess of Wales's childminder learned her craft.

Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo - who looks aft Prince William and Kate's 3 young children, George, Charlotte and Louis - is besides a postgraduate of the prestigious Bath nanny school. 

The grooming costs £36,000 successful full and includes martial arts grooming and stunt driving to its program to cater for modern clients - galore of whom are celebrities and the super-rich.

Bruce Springsteen's lad Sam 

Job: Firefighter

Legendary instrumentalist Bruce Springsteen has released 21 workplace albums passim his six-decade agelong career. 

Yet euphony didn't entreaty to his lad Sam who became a firefighter successful Jersey City successful 2020. 

Previously speaking to the New York Times about his son's profession Bruce, 75, said: 'It was a agelong road.

'He was precise dedicated for rather a fewer years and we are conscionable excited for him today.'

Sam graduated from the Monmouth County Fire Academy successful 2014, and past went connected to enactment arsenic a unpaid firefighter successful Colts Neck, the country of New Jersey wherever helium grew up.

His parents had front-row seats arsenic helium accepted his duties arsenic a firefighter for the district.

He told ABC News astatine the time: 'This is my son’s day, truthful I’m staying retired of it.'

While Sam keeps his beingness private, Bruce's woman Patti previously revealed that Sam had welcomed his archetypal kid successful July 2022, Lily Harper Springsteen.

Harrison Ford's lad Ben  

Job: Chef 

Harrison Ford regarded arsenic a cinematic taste icon with his films grossing much than $9.3 cardinal worldwide. 

However contempt his father's immense success, his lad Ben wasn't tempted into a beingness successful the spotlight and instead works arsenic a cook successful a low-key restaurant.

He founded Ford's Filling Station successful LAX airdrome successful Los Angeles - which has a 3.5 prima standing connected Trip Advisor. 

And helium is besides the laminitis of California Southland Doorstep Market, which promotes locally-grown products and hand-crafted goods.

Ben has antecedently spoken of however his dada helped animate his passionateness for cooking. 

He told the Mail: 'My begetter was decidedly astir erstwhile I was increasing up, and helium likes to navigator too.'

And helium added: 'Seeing however meticulous helium was astatine his trade has stayed with maine arsenic a chef.' 

Roger Taylor's girl Rory

Job: Doctor 

Brian May's lad isn't the lone offspring of Queen to participate the wellness assemblage aft Roger Taylor's girl Rory pursued a vocation arsenic a doctor. 

Unlike Roger's lad Rufus who has followed successful his father's footsteps arsenic a drummer, Rory works for the NHS arsenic a westbound London GP. 

Rory has a Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and actively encourages radical to cheque their boobs truthful they tin beryllium proactive astir aboriginal signs of crab done her enactment with CoppaFeel. 

She's 1 of the bosom crab charity's Medical Advisory Group members and has complteted a 60 mile, five-day trek crossed the Sahara to rise funds successful November past year. 

'The astir challenging portion was trying to find the clip to deterioration successful my hiking boots successful betwixt enactment and beingness arsenic a engaged caller mum, truthful I resorted to wearing them astir the location and connected nursery drop-offs,' she said. 

During the Covid pandemic, she was regularly featured connected Channel Four news, wherever she spoke astir restrictions and the information manus sanitiser had been going missing. 

Anna Wintour's lad Charles Shaffer: 

Job: Doctor   

Charles Shaffer could person capitalized connected the personage kudos that comes with being the lad of manner icon and long-time Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

But Charles, 39, has shied distant from the limelight and alternatively opted to go a doc - pursuing successful the footsteps of his begetter who was a longtime prof of kid psychiatry.

Charles got his undergraduate grade successful Modern History astatine Oxford University, England, earlier returning to New York to implicit his aesculapian grade astatine Columbia University.

Having worked successful hospitals crossed the US, helium holds the presumption of Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Attending Psychiatrist astatine Weill Cornell. 

Speaking successful 2020, Anna gave a uncommon penetration into her idiosyncratic beingness arsenic she revealed that Charles had go 'very ill' portion treating Covid patients during the pandemic.

Sharing the quality successful a video posted connected the Vogue Instagram relationship astatine the time, she said: 'My lad is simply a doctor. He is presently rather sick and aforesaid quarantining astatine location but erstwhile helium is able, helium volition instrumentality to the ICU astatine his hospital.

'I americium truthful arrogant of him and truthful grateful to each the wellness workers, archetypal responders, nurses and doctors who are warring to trim the dispersed of the microorganism and to prevention lives.'  

Bill Murray's lad Homer

Job: Chef  

Ghostbusters' histrion Bill Murray's lad Homer strayed from the acting way arsenic helium besides headed to the room to prosecute his career. 

Homer Murray initially worked arsenic a photograph adjunct and had the accidental to question extensively, sampling a full big of cuisines, which is however helium discovered the emotion of cooking. 

Upon his instrumentality to the US, he opened his ain edifice successful the Greenpoint vicinity of Brooklyn successful 2012.

Now called 21 Greenpoint, and having received a Michelin star, it serves a scope of dishes including fried calamari, pork collar and the Spaghetti Meg Ryan. 

When the edifice archetypal opened, the actor, 74, was seen tending the barroom and pouring shots for guests.

The Lost In Translation histrion reportedly told the rowdy revellers: 'I americium truthful happy... that helium has not continued successful the household business.'

Speaking to the New York Post astatine the time, Homer said: '[My dad] has been precise supporting of me. 

'He didn't bash this due to the fact that I asked him to. He didn't bash this due to the fact that helium thought it would drum up business. He did this due to the fact that helium wanted to. That's the quality of it.' 

On the restaurant's website, Homer has a photograph alongside his celebrated begetter with a punctuation from the histrion that reads: 'Homer has taken the joyousness of the household to person a drink, person a meal, and person friends unneurotic successful 1 place, and made it his life's work.' 

Robert De Niro's lad Raphael 

Job: Real Estate Broker

Raphael De Niro, 46, is the eldest lad of acting fable Robert - but helium has proved to beryllium incredibly palmy successful his ain right.

Growing up, helium showed large entrepreneurial spirit, moving various summer jobs including astatine a Persian rug store, arsenic a doorman, and arsenic a busboy astatine his father's Nobu restaurant.

Raphael, whose parents divorced erstwhile helium was conscionable a pre-teen, later attended New York University but did not extremity up graduating.

Early signs suggested helium would travel successful his father's acting footsteps aft making a fistful of on-screen appearances but helium eventually decided to interruption distant from the household tradition.

Instead, he found his feet arsenic a existent property broker successful New York and worked his mode up successful the spot industry.

Raphael eventually founded his ain squad nether the Douglas Elliman existent property umbrella successful 2004.

The De Niro radical soon became the company's apical earning team, bringing successful an mean of much than $250million successful income to the institution annually.

And Raphael counts celebrated faces specified arsenic Renee Zellweger and Kelly Ripa among his lawsuit base. 

Willem Dafoe's lad Jack 

Job: Environmentalist

Willem Dafoe, 67, has had a legendary Hollywood career, having won respective Academy Awards and BAFTAS. 

Yet contempt his celebrated dada and his manager parent Elizabeth LeCompte, Jack has focussed connected a antithetic way - utilizing ineligible skills to person prevention the environment. 

He antecedently worked successful nationalist argumentation arsenic a Senior Policy and Research Associate astatine the New York City Apollo Alliance, which seeks to catalyse a cleanable vigor gyration that volition enactment millions of Americans backmost to work.

He present works arsenic Assistant Attorney General successful the Natural Resources Division successful Maine, New England.  

According to thethings.com, helium earns astir $600,000 from his enactment - a hefty wage packet but not arsenic overmuch arsenic his dad's. 

Perhaps his emotion of the earthy satellite comes from his father, who has said helium avoids eating nutrient due to the fact that of the harm it does to the planet.  

He told Foodiamo in 2018: 'I don’t devour meat. I respect vegans, but I’m lone a vegetarian. 

'I similar to devour food erstwhile successful while, but I don’t devour nutrient anymore due to the fact that carnal farms are 1 of the main causes of the demolition of the planet.'  ​