Frances Bean Cobain couldn't help being iconic upon arrival. "I get it, I really do, but at the same time, it's creepy," the only child of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love told Harper's Bazaar in early 2008. "It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
" And not just because the now 32-year-old artist—and mom to 2-week-old son Ronin Walker Cobain Hawk with husband Riley Hawk —was only 15 at the time. Rather, she didn't feel as though she'd earned her thousands of online mentions just yet. "These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything," Frances said.
"I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents. If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.
People need to wait until I've done something valid with my life." Foreseeing the nepo baby tag even then, she noted, "I'm lucky enough to have a life where a lot of doors are going to be opened for me, so I'm taking my time. But I get asked what I want to do all the time because of my parents, because of the life I live.
" Still, the self-described "attention whore" did enjoy performing. At 15 she already had nearly two dozen musical theater productions under her belt after getting over the initial so-I-guess-I'm-a-singer-like-my-parents trepidation, and she'd done some modeling. Roughly 13 years after her debut photo shoot at 5 weeks old, tucked in her dad's arms in September 1992 for a Spi.