Raising the nepo rate

Who said privilege was a bad thing? These 10 celeb kids are clapping back at their family legacies and forging ahead on their own

- Urvee Modwel

1 Navya Naveli Nanda. Granddaughter of Amitabh Bachchan, daughter of businessman Nikhil Nanda. She chose business over Bollywood, founding the gender non-profit Project Naveli, and is pursuing an MBA at IIM Ahmedabad. Here's how a professor put it: "India has been debating why elite families move out of India for higher education...

2 Vivian Jenna Wilson. Wilson and her twin brother Griffin were born to tech billionaire Elon Musk's first wife, author Justine Musk. His transgender daughter has revealed, publicly, that Musk was an absentee father, who was cruel to her when she was a child simply because she was queer and feminine. While she's largely stayed out of the public eye, Wilson, in 2022, finally cut ties with and denounced her father. Good for her.

3 Elle King. Full name: Tanner Elle Schneider. Occupation: Singer. Dad: Rob Schneider, that guy in every Adam Sandler movie. On a podcast in August, King said that growing up, Schneider had been incredibly harsh about her weight, he'd make her wear sweaters in the heat to cover her tattoos, and he sent her to fat camp. She went four or five years without speaking to him. No wonder she's not a fan.