Billie Eilish 's mom knows the singer was made to achieve great things. But Maggie Baird — who also shares son Finneas with husband Patrick O'Connell —doesn't buy that her children became famous because of nepotism. In fact, the actress denies Billie and Finneas are "nepo babies" simply because she and Patrick are both in the entertainment industry, which the internet brought up when a clip of Maggie on a season six episode of Friends recently made the rounds.
"That came out, and it was like, ‘Oh, Billie is a nepo baby,'" Maggie told Glamour in an interview published Oct. 3. "And I'm like, ‘Did you know that I got that episode of Friends because I was about to lose my health insurance?'" According to Maggie, she and her husband —who has appeared in Iron Man and The West Wing — were both "working class actors.
" "We eked out a meager living," she continued, "and it afforded us a lot of time with our kids, which was awesome." As Maggie explained, she and Patrick had never experienced the level of fame that Billie, 22, and Finneas, 27, found as teenagers, adding that there are plenty of people working in Hollywood and the entertainment industry who don't experience it either. "People don't really understand there's a whole industry of people who are creative and they're working and they're struggling, and they make perfectly happy lives, and they feel creative, and they feel fulfilled," she added.
"But that's a very different life than on this side of the door where y.