Every Celeb Who Has Commented on the 'Nepo Baby' Debate, Including Several Children of Big Stars

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

“I have been a professional actress since I was 19 years old so that makes me an OG Nepo Baby,” Jamie wrote on Instagram along with two photos of herself with her famous parents. “I’ve never understood, nor will I, what qualities got me hired that day, but since my first two lines on Quincy as a contract player at Universal Studios to this last spectacular creative year some 44 years later, there’s not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the daughter of movie stars.”

She continued, “The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt. For the record I have navigated 44 years with the advantages my associated and reflected fame brought me, I don’t pretend there aren’t any, that try to tell me that I have no value on my own. It’s curious how we immediately make assumptions and snide remarks that someone related to someone else who is famous in their field for their art, would somehow have no talent whatsoever.”

“I have come to learn that is simply not true,” Jamie added. “I have suited up and shown up for all different kinds of work with thousands of thousands of people and every day I’ve tried to bring integrity and professionalism and love and community and art to my work. I am not alone. There are many of us. Dedicated to our craft. Proud of our lineage. Strong in our belief in our right to exist.”

Jamie concluded, “So, in these difficult days of so much rage in the world can we just try to find that quiet voice that the brilliant movie, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE reminds us and as my friend @robreynoldsstudio reminds us, NOTE TO SELF: BE KIND, BE KIND; BE KIND.”

Find out what Jamie previously said about being a “nepo baby.”