20 Surreal Stories From Nepo Babies About Casually Growing Up Around Stars

“Nepo babies” have become a popular topic these days. So many of today’s superstars—actors and singers we grew up watching—are now parents. Their families, by virtue of their fame, have enjoyed the perks of wealth and celebrity. It’s fascinating to imagine the culture nepo babies experienced as they grew up surrounded by such privilege. Predictably, the internet has provided an outlet for our curiosity after some interesting replies poured in when someone online asked, “Can a nepo baby with famous parents tell me something about their childhood that was normal for you but would be a culture shock to the average person?”

#1

My cousin is Keanu Reeves idk if that counts for something he paid for my prep school tuition and college

#2

Bon Jovi slept in our guest room pretty regularly when he first started coming to Nashville. ☺️

#3

Pool parties at adam levine’s house as a child ahahaha

#4

Leonardo DiCaprio used to come over for dinner and study my dad’s mannerisms because he was playing him in a movie about Wall Street.

#5

My dad told us his new hire had a daughter that wanted to be famous and wanted to take us to a small event with backstage passes and the whole 9. The small event??? A Sabrina carpenter concert. My dads new hire was Sabrina carpenters dad

#6

My grandma rejected Steven Tyler from Aerosmith after he asked her out in high school. She said he look like a rat lmao

#7

I’m related to Benito (bad bunny) and last time I visited Puerto Rico my uncle hosted a noche buena (christmas eve) and he was just there casually playing dominos😭✌️

#8

My cousin is Miley Cyrus and I would hang out on the Hannah Montana set sometimes. Jake Ryan would “babysit” me when he wasn’t filming

#9

Growing up my dad was a body guard for a famous artist so in 2nd grade I sent him my flat Stanley and he sent it back with pictures with Usher, at the Grammy’s and a bunch of other celebrities

#10

My older brother is a celebrity tattoo artist. He’d call mom and be like, “I won’t be home for Thanksgiving until tomorrow because I’m tattooing Wiz Khalifa right now.” And that was just a normal conversation to have lol

#11

As a kid i thought getting invited to f1 races were normal and people didn’t have to pay to watch at the paddock club

#12

no nepo baby but My Grandma was bestfriends with Ice Cube’s mom for yearsss. He came to my grandmas 70th birthday with his mom ofc they were both really sweet unfortunately my grandma and his mom have now passed on🥹

#13

Jason Biggs is my uncle and sat on me at a wedding and I cried and will never forget it

#14

Nicole Richie was dancing with me at my parents‘s wedding. I was 5 and had no clue who she was.

#15

Not a nepo baby but similar caliber, my dad is an animal trainer for movies and tv so a bunch of my pets are famous and i’ve met a bunch of celebrities. my dog seven was dog on the walking dead so i’ve met norman reedus and i have cool photos of me when i was younger on twd set 😋

#16

Not a nepo baby but my grandmom used to take me to writers conventions and I ended up playing on a play ground with Will Smith and his kids.

#17

Not a nepo baby but my dad is an entertainment journalist and he used to take me to movie sets when he couldn’t get a babysitter so I’d just be chilling at craft services while he interviewed ppl lmao. Anyways here’s a photo of me and my brother on the set of Harry Potter in 2008

#18

this isn’t nepotism but my dad worked at naughty dog for 28 years and my family/baby photos were put into the last of us game

#19

my mom owned a papa murphys so i got free pizza my whole childhood, usher was probably there too somehow

#20

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but my great grandma used to babysit Michael jackson but that was before I was alive so that’s all I know 😭😭😭

Shanilou Perera

Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.