While the nepo baby panic rages on with no end in sight, everyone tip-toes around that rather obvious pile of class anxieties 🤔 So join us and special guest Emily Alford this week in search of an answer to the ancient question: What's up with rich and famous people?! Featuring cameous from our favorite friends and enemies, like Allison Williams, Lena Dunham, Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt, Edith Wharton, and so much more.

Links:

• We're Making Nepo-Baby Merch for Actual Babies, Jan. 18 2023 [The Strategist]
• All the Nepo Babies Who Are Melting Down Over That New York Mag Exposé [Daily Beast]
• Lottie Moss Tweets [Twitter]
• Eve Hewson, the daughter of U2 frontman Bono [Twitter]
• Jamie Lee Curtis [Instagram]
• O'Shea Jackson Jr., son of Ice Cube [Twitter]
• Lily Allen, daughter of Keith Allen: [Twitter]
• Hailey Bieber pap shot [Instagram]
• What Is a 'Nepotism Baby'? [New York Times]
• Ben Stiller Asserts Hollywood Is Meritocratic, Rejects Claims Of Hollywood Nepotism In Twitter Debate With Black List Founder Franklin Leonard [Deadline]
• Billie Eilish brother Finneas Assures Critics That His Parents 'Knew No One In The Record Industry' [MTV]
• Elizabeth Olsen said that she is 'very aware' of nepotism and its impact on her career [Grazia]
• 17 Nepotism Babies from Least to Most Popular Based on Instagram Followers [Gizmodo]
• Lily-Rose Depp Is An Idol Rising [Talks of nepotism in the article) [Elle]
• 'Nepo babies' in Hollywood: What do famous families say about industry equity? [USA Today]
• Nepo Babies know what you think of them. They have some thoughts. [The Washington Post]
• Stop Blaming Lena Dunham's Success On "Nepotism", Oct 4, 2012 [Buzzfeed]
• The Big Upside of Hollywood Nepotism, JUNE 26, 2013 [The Atlantic]
• Emma Roberts: Talk of Nepotism Is "So Ridiculous", June 16, 2011 [Us Weekly]
• 'We have to work twice as hard': Robin Williams's actress daughter Zelda hits back at claims of nepotism in blog post, 7th March 2012 [Daily Mail]

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