Billie Eilish's actress mother Maggie Baird has dismissed claims her children are "nepo babies". Maggie has appeared in shows such as 'The X Files', 'Bones' and 'Six Feet Under' - while her husband Patrick O'Connell had roles in 'The West Wing' and 'Iron Man' and a clip of Maggie's role in hit sitcom 'Friends' recently sparked accusations Billie and her brother Finneas only found success in the music industry because their parents were actors. However, Maggie is adamant the suggestion is just not true.
She told Glamour magazine: "I think it’s hilarious. Because that [clip of 'Friends'] came out, and it was like, ‘Oh, Billie is a nepo baby.’ And I’m like, ‘Did you know that I got that episode of 'Friends' because I was about to lose my health insurance?'" She went on to insist the couple never made it big in the acting world, but it meant they got to spend a lot of time with their kids when they were growing up.
Maggie added: "My husband and I are working class actors. We eked out a meagre living, and it afforded us a lot of time with our kids, which was awesome. "But the industry is primarily people like us or even people not even like us who couldn’t even do that.
So when all of this happened to our kids, we’d never been on that side of it. " I think that 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.