Elle King on Avoiding the Nepo Baby Label with Dad Rob Schneider
Elle King on Avoiding the Nepo Baby Label with Dad Rob Schneider: 'I Do Work Really Hard' https://t.co/UvbZE49mX7
- People (@people) August 6, 2024
Elle King, 35, is getting candid about the “nepo baby” label.
She is the daughter of actor Rob Schneider, 60, and former model London King.
“I do work really hard. I don't think I ever really got scooted into the ‘nepo baby’ thing.”
If her father’s career in Hollywood had an influence over the career or 'direction' she chose in life. She and her father weren’t super close when she first got signed to her music label.
“It was more of like a deterrent. We really weren't even speaking… I was a lot closer with my mom's family in Ohio, and so I just have always gone by my mom's last name.”
It's easy to judge her from an outside perspective, since if anyone Googled her, his name usually was the first thing that popped up - but it couldn’t have been further from the truth.
“I was born in California, and nobody knows that I really grew up in Ohio, and [I] didn't even move to New York until I was a teenager. So, I feel like it's just so unfair. And, yeah, of course, there can be any situation in the world and be like, ‘OK. It's so much easier to just look surface level and not think that there could be any layers to anything ever,’”
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