Billie Eilish's Mom Maggie Baird Shuts Down 'Nepo Baby' Comments
Billie Eilish's Mom Maggie Baird Shuts Down 'Nepo Baby' Comments: 'People Don’t Really Understand' https://t.co/57OOPs6tGP
- People (@people) October 3, 2024
Some people think Billie Eilish is a 'nepo baby'. Her mom, Maggie Baird, disagrees.
Baird responded to claims that her daughter benefitted from nepotism because she worked as an actress in Los Angeles for many years.
"I think it’s hilarious. Because that came out, and it was like, 'Oh, Billie is a nepo baby,' And I’m like, 'Did you know that I got that episode of Friends because I was about to lose my health insurance?'"
Baird explained that she and husband Patrick O'Connell are working class actors.
"We eked out a meager living, and it afforded us a lot of time with our kids, which was awesome. But the industry is primarily people like us or even people not even like us who couldn’t even do that. So when all of this happened to our kids, we’d never been on that side of it."
Baird's film and television career was active from the 1980s through 2010s, the bulk of her onscreen roles were not lead characters.
"I think that people don’t really understand there’s a whole industry of people who are creative and they’re working and they’re struggling, and they make perfectly happy lives, and they feel creative, and they feel fulfilled. But that’s a very different life than on this side of the door where you’re suddenly playing in this different arena."
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