‘Nepo babies’ Riley Keough and Zoe Kravitz were ‘breastfed’ together
nypost.comrecently inherited her grandfather Elvis Presley’s Graceland home after the untimely death of her mother Lisa Marie Presley — was featured in the latest issue of Vanity Fair after snagging her first Emmy nom for playing a troubled drug addict musician in Prime Video’s “Daisy Jones and the Six.” Keough told the magazine that her parents, including her father Danny Keough, were friends with actress Lisa Bonet and musician Lenny Kravitz when Keough and Zoe, now 34, were just babies. “Crazy fun fact: Zoe and I’s parents were friends when we were really little, so we would hang out as nepo babies, literally.
And like, our parents breastfed us next to each other,” she confessed.The term “nepo babies” became a hot-button issue after a controversial 2022 New York Magazine cover story on Hollywood stars who have famous relatives.
Many stars reacted defensively to the “nepo babies” discussion on social media, including supermodel Kate Moss’s sister, Lottie Moss; Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson; and Ben Platt, who even cut an interview short after getting asked about the topic.
But Keough, who is Hollywood royalty several generations and counting – and was embroiled in a high profile battle over Lisa Marie Presley’s estate with her grandmother, Priscilla Presley, 78 – was casual about the benefits of being raised by famous folks.“There was a bit of upheaval, but now everything’s going to be how it was,” Keough said, regarding her relationship with her grandmother. “Anything that would suggest otherwise in the press makes me sad because, at the end of the day, all [Priscilla] wants is to love and protect Graceland and the Presley family and the legacy.”Keough is married to Australian stuntman Ben Smith-Peterson, and she recently revealed.
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