If one thing is getting us all through the slow-moving holiday news cycle, it's the nepo baby discourse. While we've already heard takes from bonafide affluent background havers such as Bono's daughter and Lily Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis has just thrown her hat into the ring.
In a lengthy Instagram caption, Curtis lamented the online discussion surrounding famous people with famous parents brought on by a Vulture article published earlier this week. The caption lives under two photos of her and her parents — actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh — and goes into detail about the early aspects of her career.
"I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby," the actor wrote. After talking a bit about how often she's reminded of her famous parents, she said the nepo baby conversation "is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt."
She then goes on to acknowledge her privilege in having the upbringing she did, but still hammered home how unfair she thinks assumptions about nepo babies can be: "It's curious how we immediately make assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art, would somehow have no talent whatsoever," she wrote.
Now we're left wondering, does this also make Lindsay Lohan's character in Freaky Friday a nepo baby? Read Curtis' full Instagram statement below.
I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby.
I've never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on Quincy as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there's not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars. The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.
For the record I have navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don't pretend there aren't any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own. It's curious how we immediately make assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art, would somehow have no talent whatsoever. I have come to learn that is simply not true.
I have suited up and shown up for all different kinds of work with thousands of thousands of people and every day I've tried to bring integrity and professionalism and love and community and art to my work. I am not alone. There are many of us. Dedicated to our craft. Proud of our lineage. Strong in our belief in our right to exist.
So, in these difficult days of so much rage in the world can we just try to find that quiet voice that the brilliant movie, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE reminds us and as my friend @robreynoldsstudio reminds us,
NOTE TO SELF:
BE KIND,
BE KIND;
BE KIND:
In a lengthy Instagram caption, Curtis lamented the online discussion surrounding famous people with famous parents brought on by a Vulture article published earlier this week. The caption lives under two photos of her and her parents — actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh — and goes into detail about the early aspects of her career.
"I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby," the actor wrote. After talking a bit about how often she's reminded of her famous parents, she said the nepo baby conversation "is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt."
She then goes on to acknowledge her privilege in having the upbringing she did, but still hammered home how unfair she thinks assumptions about nepo babies can be: "It's curious how we immediately make assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art, would somehow have no talent whatsoever," she wrote.
Now we're left wondering, does this also make Lindsay Lohan's character in Freaky Friday a nepo baby? Read Curtis' full Instagram statement below.
I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby.
I've never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on Quincy as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there's not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars. The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt.
For the record I have navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don't pretend there aren't any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own. It's curious how we immediately make assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art, would somehow have no talent whatsoever. I have come to learn that is simply not true.
I have suited up and shown up for all different kinds of work with thousands of thousands of people and every day I've tried to bring integrity and professionalism and love and community and art to my work. I am not alone. There are many of us. Dedicated to our craft. Proud of our lineage. Strong in our belief in our right to exist.
So, in these difficult days of so much rage in the world can we just try to find that quiet voice that the brilliant movie, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE reminds us and as my friend @robreynoldsstudio reminds us,
NOTE TO SELF:
BE KIND,
BE KIND;
BE KIND:
