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Actress and musician Lily Allen sparked an online debate after she defended “nepo babies” in Hollywood, a term for the children of famous parents.
Allen, the daughter of “Trainspotting” actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen, argued on Twitter that the road to success for “nepo babies” isn’t as simple as some may think. The industry, she said, is not “parent friendly.”
The “nepo babies” people should really be worried about, Allen intoned, are those in other industries.
“The nepo babies y’all should be worrying about are the ones working for legal firms, the ones working for banks, and the ones working in politics, if we’re talking about real world consequences and robbing people of opportunity,” Allen tweeted. “BUT that’s none of my business.”
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Seeing that she had “riled up” social media commenters, Allen offered a larger explanation.
“I do feel that nepo babies are being somewhat scapegoated here though, there is a wider, societal conversation to be had about wealth inequality, about lack of programs and funding, and I guess that was the point I was trying to make, maybe badly,” she said.
Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen sang Allen’s 2009 hit ‘F— You’ to the Supreme Court Justices’ following Roe v Wade decision
(Joseph Okpako)
“I promise you I’m not rooting for an industry full of people that had childhoods that looked like mine,” she continued. “I just really think that we can’t get to a real solution without identifying the real problem, as fun as it is to laugh at the kids of famous people. Nepo babies have feelings.”
“In childhood we crave stability and love, nurturing,” Allen also tweeted. “We don’t care about money or proximity to power yet. Many of the nepo babies are starved of these basic things in childhood as their parents are probably narcissistic.”
In closing, she admitted it’s “important to disclose what a…
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