Billie Eilish ’s mother Maggie Baird has shut down claims that her daughter was a “nepo baby” after a resurfaced clip of Baird in a Friends episode did the rounds on social media . In an interview with Glamour magazine that focused on the mothers of some of pop culture ’s biggest stars, Baird dismissed the idea that her children musicians Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell became famous because both she and husband Patrick O’Connell were actors. “I think it’s hilarious.
Because that 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?’” Baird said , referring to the clip that was posted on X in July, where she played a casting director for Matt LeBlanc’s character Joey Tribbiani in an episode on season six. “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,” she said.
Baird explained that neither she nor O’Connell had ever reached the kind of fame or success their children had managed to achieve, but they were “happy” and “fulfilled” with their work. “I think that people don’t really understand there’s a whole industry of people who are creat.
