How to Use nepo baby in a Sentence
nepo baby
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But don't call them nepo babies.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
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Is there any better kind of nepo baby?
—Victoria Herman, Air Mail, 8 Nov. 2025
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This nepo baby doth protest a little too much.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026
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This here is a nepo baby failing to live up to his surname.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2025
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Lamas also is a bit of a nepo baby who was born into show business.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
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That stuff has currency in this most nepo baby-friendly of fields.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
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This nepo baby’s sense of entitlement to a seat at the table knows no bounds.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
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She co-stars with a fellow nepo baby in Vanishing Tour.
—Hannah Malach, InStyle, 23 June 2026
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The nepo baby has surely taken singing and piano lessons since childhood and has always been praised for her talent.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
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Sylvie does, in fact, discover the hats and deputizes Emily to fire the nepo baby.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
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In some dynasties, the lineage is clear—the Trumps and the Kennedys are a long line of nesting nepo babies.
—Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 16 Jan. 2026
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Being a nepo baby can also mean quietly swiping the goods from your parents' closets.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
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Elsewhere in his interview, Nivola weighed in on another hot topic — nepo babies.
—Michelle Lee, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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From short-term flings to longstanding love stories, nepo babies have a way of gravitating toward one another.
—Ayana Herndon, InStyle, 25 July 2026
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King has spoken on multiple occasions about not being close to her father growing up and evading the nepo baby label.
—Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
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As the nepo baby of the group, Alani already has what many of them desire, which allows her ambition to manifest as a need to be wanted.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
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The progressive Democrat, who has now taken up her father's mantle, doesn't like being branded as a nepo baby.
—Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
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The nepo baby discussion has been a big one in the entertainment industry as multiple celebrity kids have been popping up on screens, left and right.
—Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Aug. 2026
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Kai also posed with fellow nepo baby Sailor Brinkley-Cook and her mom Christie Brinkley at the event.
—Lara Walsh, InStyle, 22 Aug. 2026
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There’s a whole generation of nepo babies that existed before the phrase was (recently) created.
—Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
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As the daughter of one of the most iconic supermodels of all time, Kaia has also openly acknowledged her nepo baby status.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 29 July 2026
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In an era driven by Hollywood nepo babies, Dave Franco doesn’t totally agree that the label applies to him.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 31 Oct. 2025
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Early, as the family’s dented nepo baby, is a peculiar fount of profane insight, twisted but touchingly damaged.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
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But Cage is far from the only big name to have been born with a different one, and sometimes celebs choose new aliases for reasons a bit more intriguing than simply being a nepo baby.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
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But the nepo baby trend may extend beyond Hollywood, touching the lives of everyday Americans.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 27 May 2026
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His adult daughter, Rickie (Perry Mattfeld), is fighting to prove herself on staff despite being both a nepo baby and a woman.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
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The lies begin as soon as Max encounters Guillermo, an arrogant nepo baby who blamed him for Ane’s death but now pretends to accept his apology.
—Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
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These are essentially the nepo babies of the PA crowd — people who have been employed primarily because of family or friend connections.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
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Several nepo babies run in the same social circles such as Black-ish costars Tracee Ellis Ross and Rashida Jones, who have been friends for years.
—Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026
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Maia has help from her friends Charlie (Jordan Firstman), a pop star stylist and Alani (True Whitaker), an aimless movie biz nepo baby.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
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