Hailey Bieber finally reveals why she wore THAT famous 'Nepo Baby' crop top S-News

Hailey Bieber has finally revealed why she decided to wear a ‘nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦’ crop top that caused headlines back in January.

The model, 26, was named in the infamous December 2022 ‘nepo babies’ article, with the term referring to a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 of famous parents.

But unlike some of her peers, Hailey didn’t shy away from the controversial label.

The beauty brand owner – who is the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin and graphic designer Kennya Baldwin – proudly rocked a cropped ‘Nepo Baby‘ T-shirt as she stepped out in Los Angeles just weeks after the article was published.

‘The nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 T-shirt was just meant to be my little comment on the whole discourse that had been going around,’ she said in an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday.

Speaking her mind: Hailey Bieber has finally revealed why she decided to wear a ‘nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦’ crop top that caused headlines back in January

Article: Just weeks before she wore the shirt, the model, 26, was named in the infamous December 2022 ‘nepo babies’ article , with the term referring to a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 of famous parents

‘And, you know, my point to having worn the T-shirt was not to poke fun at it or be like, “Yeah, I’m a nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦” and ha ha type of thing.’

‘It was more so to be like this is what everyone is saying, and I want you to know this is my way of responding to it and my way of acknowledging it.

‘In a way that is so overly literal that it’s like, “I’m just going to call myself a nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 because I am one and I embrace that I am,” she said.

Hailey revealed she enjoyed wearing the controversial piece, since she had ‘mixed’ reactions to it.

‘I’m like, “So you’re going to sit there and call me a nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦 all day long but then I acknowledge it and then I’m not enough of a nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦?”

‘So, it’s like, there is never any winning with the internet.’

Hailey exuded confidence as she strutted through the indoor parking lot in the statement-making tee.

The term nepo babies was coined online and is used to describe celebrity offspring who land easily in the world of showbiz, cushioned by their parents’ famous names.

Famous father: Hailey is the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin (pictured 2013)

Lily-Rose Depp, Maude Apatow, and a slew of others were among those plastered on the front cover of New York Magazine’s The Year of the Nepo Baby cover.

The furore-causing article was published in December and featured other 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren of the rich and famous who lucked out in the genetic lottery.

Hailey was named early on in the article in which a conversation she had with Gwyneth Paltrow about nepotism nepotism was brought up.

‘Gwyneth Paltrow (daughter of Blythe Danner and Bruce Paltrow) commiserated about it with Hailey Bieber (daughter of Stephen Baldwin and niece of Alec) on the latter’s YouTube channel: “People are ready to pull you down and say, ‘You don’t belong there,”‘ the article stated.

Celebrity nepotism is nothing new but the insult ‘nepo 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦’ has become increasingly popular as shorthand to deride it.

During her appearance on Hailey’s Who’s In My Bathroom YouTube series over the summer, Gwyneth said she thinks celebrity 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren are not as advantaged in Hollywood as some people believe.

She said she thinks nepotism babies have to work ‘twice as hard’ once they get their foot in the door to prove themselves because people will say they ‘don’t belong’.

But Gwyneth also admitted that 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren with famous parents can ‘unfairly’ get into the industry and have access to opportunities which other people don’t have.

‘As the 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 of someone, you get access other people don’t have, so the playing field is not level in that way,’ she explained.

‘However, I really do feel that once your foot is in the door, which you unfairly got in, then you almost have to work twice as hard and be twice as good because people are ready to pull you down and say ‘You don’t belong there’ and ‘You are only there because of your dad or your mom’, or whatever the case may be.’

Giving advice to other nepotism babies, the Goop founder said the label shouldn’t ‘limit’ them and urged people not to let others have a ‘negative impact’ on their lives.

She added: ‘It shouldn’t limit you because what I believe is that nobody in the world, especially somebody who doesn’t know you, should have a negative impact on your path or the decisions that you make.’