Hailey Bieber addresses 'nepo baby' T-shirt controversy, says there's 'never any winning with the internet'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Hailey Bieber, daughter of Stephen Baldwin and the niece of Alec Baldwin, has claimed she is not running away from her heritage in response to the "nepo baby" T-shirt controversy. Bieber, 26, discussed how people reacted to her when she wore her well-known white t-shirt with the words "nepo baby" written across the front in an interview with Bloomberg's 'The Circuit'. The model told host Emily Chang that she wasn't attempting to make an admission with the blouse; rather, she merely wanted to recognize the famous heritage of her family.
The supermodel entered the online discussion about Hollywood nepotism when she was spotted in Los Angeles in Jan wearing a white cropped shirt with the words "nepo baby" on it. Several internet users at the time thought she was making fun of the disputation. Now Hailey cleared the air on her fashion decision, saying she wasn't attempting to raise eyebrows with the eye-catching top.
“I’m just going to call myself a nepo baby — because I am one! And I embrace that I am.”
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Hailey Bieber tells @emilychangtv the story behind her “nepo baby” T-shirt.
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'I'm just going to call myself a nepo baby'
"My point to having worn the T-shirt was not to poke fun at it or be like, 'Yeah I’m a nepo baby haha,' type of a thing," the supermodel said. "It was more so to be like, 'This is what everyone is saying and I want you to know that this is my way of responding to it.'" She continued, "I'm just going to call myself a nepo baby, because I am one, and I embrace that I am."
'There is never any winning with the internet'
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Hailey claimed that the attention-grabbing clothing unintentionally led to criticism of her being "not really a nepo baby that much." "What was funny about that to me, the way the internet is, it's like nothing's ever enough," she stated. "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? There is never any winning with the internet, and that's what I've always—time and time again—realized."