While a guest on fellow celebrity baby Hailey Bieber's YouTube show "Who's in My Bathroom" in July 2022, actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow spoke out about growing up in a Hollywood family.
The daughter of actor Blythe Danner and producer-director Bruce Paltrow said, "I had a lot of success really young. As the child of someone, you get access other people don't have, so the playing field is not level in that way. However, I really do feel that once your foot is in the door, which you unfairly got in, then you almost have to work twice as hard and be twice as good."
Paltrow shared more of her feelings about the term "nepo baby" in an Oct. 18 interview with Bustle. Speaking about her daughter Apple Martin, she revealed that she truly dislikes the term.
"Now there's this whole nepo baby culture, and judgment that exists around kids of famous people," Paltrow said. "She's really just a student, and she's been very . . . She just wants to be a kid and be at school and learn. But there's nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents do. Nobody rips on a kid who's like 'I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad.'"
She continued: "The truth is if you grow up in a house with a lot of artists and people making art and music, that's what you know, the same way that if you grow up in a house with law, the discussions around the table are about the nuances of whatever particular law the parents practice. I think it's kind of an ugly moniker. I just hope that my children always feel free to pursue exactly what they want to do, irrespective of what anybody's going to think or say."
