--- title: Gwyneth Paltrow Comments on Nepo Babies description: Gwyneth Paltrow called the term nepo baby an "ugly moniker" canonical: https://time.com/6325713/gwyneth-paltrow-nepo-baby-comments/ author: Moises Mendez article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-10-18T21:44:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T16:33:32.397Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Gwyneth Paltrow Comments on Nepo Babies og:description: Gwyneth Paltrow called the term nepo baby an "ugly moniker" og:url: https://time.com/6325713/gwyneth-paltrow-nepo-baby-comments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt338d408ec9a5e77d/698a415b4ee26255fd31bd69/GettyImages-1147433618.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Gwyneth Paltrow og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gwyneth Paltrow Comments on Nepo Babies twitter:description: Gwyneth Paltrow called the term nepo baby an "ugly moniker" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt338d408ec9a5e77d/698a415b4ee26255fd31bd69/GettyImages-1147433618.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Gwyneth Paltrow Calls the Term Nepo Baby an 'Ugly Moniker' ## Video: Parasocial Relationships: How Admiring a Celeb Might Be Healthy [Watch (HLS stream): Parasocial Relationships: How Admiring a Celeb Might Be Healthy](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/YQnKt3Qu.m3u8) (5:52)  _Published 2023-07-13. There’s a good chance that you—yes, even you—have had a parasocial experience. Ever yell at the football player on your TV who just fumbled the ball, even though you knew he couldn’t hear you? That’s an example of a parasocial interaction, which can progress into a parasocial relationship—typically defined as a one-sided social and emotional connection developed with fictional characters or celebrities._  by [Moises Mendez](/author/moises-mendez-ii/)  ## Moises Mendez Oct 18, 2023 9:44 PM CUT  Gwyneth Paltrow attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gwyneth Paltrow attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art.Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage  by [Moises Mendez](/author/moises-mendez-ii/)  ## Moises Mendez Oct 18, 2023 9:44 PM CUT The discourse surrounding nepotism, specifically the role of nepo babies in Hollywood, is never-ending, fueled by the celebrities who wade into it. Gwyneth Paltrow, famously a nepo baby herself, is the latest to do so: in an interview[ with _Bustle_](https://www.bustle.com/beauty/gwyneth-paltrow-good-clean-goop-interview "undefined") published Wednesday, the 51-year-old actor and Goop founder called the term nepo baby “an ugly moniker.” Speaking about her 19-year-old daughter Apple Martin, Paltrow said the “whole nepo baby culture” has created a “judgment that exists around kids of famous people.” “She just wants to be a kid and be at school and learn,” she said. “But there’s nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents do.” ### More From TIME Paltrow continued: “Nobody rips on a kid who’s like, ‘I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad.’ 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." The term nepo baby has been a contentious one in Hollywood for years and was brought to a fever pitch by [_New York Magazine_’s 2022 story](https://nymag.com/press/2022/12/extremely-overanalyzing-hollywoods-nepo-baby-boom.html "undefined") tracking the well-connected children of stars. In March, Sofia Coppola’s teenage daughter, Romy Mars, stirred the ongoing conversation when she [uploaded a TikTok](https://time.com/6265320/sofia-coppola-daughter-tiktok/ "undefined") about being grounded because she tried to charter a helicopter to get dinner with a friend on her dad’s credit card—and sharing she actually wasn't allowed to have social media because her parents "don’t want me to be a nepotism kid." Many celebrity nepo babies have espoused Paltrow’s point of view over the years, from [Zoe Kravitz](https://www.gq.com/story/zoe-kravitz-men-of-the-year-cover-2022 "undefined") to [Drew Barrymore](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mhoodwilson/nepo-baby-celebrity-responses "undefined"). Kate Hudson, the daughter of Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, made a similar argument to [_The Independent_](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/kate-hudson-interview-glass-onion-knives-out-b2250000.html "undefined") in a 2022 interview. “I look at my kids and we’re a storytelling family. It’s definitely in our blood," she said. "I don’t care where you come from, or what your relationship to the business is—if you work hard and you kill it, it doesn’t matter.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/6325713/gwyneth-paltrow-nepo-baby-comments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/6325713/gwyneth-paltrow-nepo-baby-comments/"},"headline":"Gwyneth Paltrow Calls the Term Nepo Baby an 'Ugly Moniker'","datePublished":"2023-10-18T21:44:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T16:33:32.397Z","description":"Gwyneth Paltrow called the term nepo baby an \"ugly moniker\"","url":"https://time.com/6325713/gwyneth-paltrow-nepo-baby-comments/","keywords":["celebrities","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt338d408ec9a5e77d/698a415b4ee26255fd31bd69/GettyImages-1147433618.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Moises Mendez","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/moises-mendez-ii/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt338d408ec9a5e77d/698a415b4ee26255fd31bd69/GettyImages-1147433618.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gwyneth Paltrow","caption":"Gwyneth Paltrow at the Met Gala","creditText":"Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/6325713/gwyneth-paltrow-nepo-baby-comments/","name":"Gwyneth Paltrow Calls the Term Nepo Baby an 'Ugly Moniker'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Parasocial Relationships: How Admiring a Celeb Might Be Healthy","description":"There’s a good chance that you—yes, even you—have had a parasocial experience. 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