Aside from death and taxes, one thing is certain: Lenny Kravitz will always be the epitome of quintessential cool. A career that spans decades, a music style uniquely his own and a symbol of artistic authenticity that just feels effortlessly cool. Unless you ask his daughter Zoe Kravitz , that is.
During a speech for Kravitz’s induction to the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year, Zoe joked that her father’s predilection for shirtless looks might have earned him points as a global sex symbol, but it made for a deeply awkward school pick-up experience. Even Kim Kardashian has been deemed embarrassing by her four kids. Credit: AP “According to my dad, if it doesn’t expose your nipples, it’s not a shirt.
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it used to embarrass me,” she said. While I appreciate her embarrassment (parents wearing shirts in public is always a good idea), it does pose an important question. If Lenny Kravitz wasn’t considered “cool” by his child, what does a cool parent actually look like? The short answer is that it doesn’t look like anything.
And that’s because the “cool parent” myth is just that; it doesn’t exist. At least not in our children’s eyes. Loading Take Kim Kardashian.
With a self-made net worth of $US1.7 billion ($2.5 billion), a reality television and business empire, and over 360 million followers on Instagram alone, like Kravitz, Kardashian is considered the epitome of cool by millions of people around the world.
She can – and often does – provide .