- Hailey Bieber was spotted in Los Angeles wearing a shirt with the phrase "Nepo Baby".
- The model and Rhode Skin founder's cropped t-shirt took aim at the debate about "nepo babies".
Hailey Bieber took the term "Nepo Baby" and turned it into a fashion statement.
The model and founder of $4, 26, was spotted out in about in Los Angeles, California on Friday wearing a cropped white T-shirt with the words "Nepo Baby" printed on the front. She wore it with a belted pair of low-rise jeans, a black handbag, and black loafers.
In the photographs taken of Bieber, who $4 in 2019 and is the daughter of actor Stephen Baldwin, the model appeared to be walking through a parking garage before meeting her friend Justine Skye.
While with Skye, Bieber appeared to change into a different white shirt without the slogan.
The words printed on the T-shirt are a not-so-subtle reference to the debate about nepo babies in the entertainment industry. The term is used to describe a famous person who may have found success due to a relative also being in showbusiness.
Interest in nepo babies jumped in December after a $4 in Hollywood went viral, prompting many other relatives of $4
But not everyone has embraced the term as much as Bieber appears to have done.
Stars like $4 and Jamie Lee Curtis, who also have famous relatives, have spoken out in several interviews about their dislike of the phrase.
$4, Curtis, who is the daughter of $4 and "Some Like It Hot" star Tony Curtis, shared her thoughts in an $4 post on December 23.
"There's not a day in my professional life that goes by without my being reminded that I am the $4," wrote Curtis, 64. "The current conversation about nepo babies is just designed to try to diminish and denigrate and hurt."
"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," Curtis added in her post $4. "I have come to learn that is simply not true."