maybe you're born a nepo baby.
maybe it's maybelline
Nepo baby (short for nepotism baby): a famous person who has at least one parent (or another close family member) who is a celebrity
I am not a nepo baby—unless the family trait that we’re talking about is “good at studying for and taking standardized tests”—but I spend a shocking amount of time trying to become one.
No, I don’t mean angling myself for adult adoption by a celeb or marrying into a famous clan. I mean playing catch-up in my own life when it comes to connections and opportunities. Because what really makes a nepo baby a nepo baby isn’t their relation to a famous person—it’s having access to a network that your parents (and maybe their parents and their parents) built up; it’s growing up subconsciously internalizing the invisible rules of Hollywood, or the art world, or whatever sphere you aspire towards. The best thing about being a nepo baby isn’t growing up fabulously wealthy beyond most people’s wildest dreams (although that part seems pret…