by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m an Old, so it’s weirdly amusing that the Youngs have made the issue of “Nepo Babies” such a big deal. Is it really that big a deal that famous and powerful children often become famous and powerful, too? Well, have I got news for you, Youngs — this, just like sex, is not a new invention.
There were Nepo Babies before the Romans walked the earth. The Nepo Baby I’ve noticed of late is Heidi Klum’s 18-year-old daughter Leni Pose. The two of them posed in a lingerie ad recently which, of course, was really a “coming out” of sorts for Ms. Pose — who is demonstrably a babe, if not as tall as her mom.
Though, of course, the whole exercise is a bit cringe if you ask me. But a mom’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do. I suppose in Ms. Klum’s mind doing a lingerie ad photoshoot with her daughter is a way of passing the baton of the family business to the next generation.
I think the growing notoriety of Nepo Babies says more about the growing sense among younger people that the system is rigged against them, which, of course, it is.
But unless we have some sort of French-style revolution in the United States, I fear Nepo Babies are here to stay. It’s just human nature for Nepo Babies to exist, it’s just because of how fucked up America’s economic system is at the moment — combined with the vagaries of Tik=Tok — people are so aware of their presence these days.
