Lourdes Leon says she was raised to be 'smarter' than a nepotism baby: 'Nepotism babies are pretty awful usually, and my mom and my father raised me to be so much smarter than that.”
, 26, who goes by Lola, opened up about forging her own path despite the fact that some people might consider her a “nepotism baby” — slang for the child of a celebrity who succeeds thanks to their parent’s fame.interview with The Cut
. “And, yes, there’s undeniable privilege that I’d be stupid to not realize. Nepotism babies are pretty awful usually, and my mom and my father raised me to be so much smarter than that.”Chris Harding / Getty Images Leon, who recently released her first EP, “Go,” is Madonna’s oldest daughter. Her father is actor and celebrity personal trainer Carlos Leon.“I have such a high standard for visuals, audio, character, humor, style — everything — because that’s what I’ve been exposed to my whole life,” she said.“People that are doing well are not worried about other people,” she said.
While Leon acknowledged her privileged upbringing, she emphasized that she is financially independent, noting that she lives in a shared rental apartment with a friend in New York. She also told The Cut that she studied dance at SUNY Purchase, a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York, “in part because it was ‘way less expensive’ than other schools.”
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