From Kaia Gerber to Lily-Rose Depp, celebrity offspring are making a mockery of meritocracy
on the children given a leg-up by their famous parents, have been attracting a level of opprobrium they are finding both unnecessary and unfair. After all, they saythey might get a foot in the door, but then they have to work twice as hard and be twice as good or at least prove themselves equal to the task. Kaia Gerber, the model daughter of Cindy Crawford, was last week the, which has been repeated so many times by nepo babies down the decades that it has become a sort of proverb.
Then, too, they are protected from many of the nasty obstacles their peers may have to deal with. No one sane bullies or harasses a nepo baby or drives them from an industry for all but the most heinous of crimes. These lucky children can afford to stray confidently outside the usual parameters of behaviour, which is a risk but in the arts can be an advantage.
OK, but who cares if a few sons and daughters get to have better careers, so long as they meet required standards? Does it really affect anything if it is Gwyneth Paltrow’s daughter, Apple Martin, rather than another equally pretty girl, who gets the job? Why are we so exercised about nepo babies? Isn’t it natural that parents want to help their children? Yes, and that’s the problem. Nepotism is hard to root out, as you are fighting against one of the strongest human instincts: parents devote lives and fortunes to giving their sprogs even the tiniest of head starts. (The actor Felicity Huffman risked – and got – jail to give hercalling in favours to get their son to casting.
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