Cindy Crawford's daughter Kaia Gerber weighs in on 'nepo baby' debate: 'Won’t deny the privilege that I have' - Fox News

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Cindy Crawford's girl Kaia Gerber shared her thoughts connected the "nepo baby" statement raging successful Hollywood arsenic she appeared connected the screen of Elle magazine's February issue.

The 21-year-old exemplary and actress, who the 56-year-old supermodel shares with hubby Rande Gerber, 60, opened up astir the "nepo baby" label, a precocious coined word abbreviated for "nepotism babies," during the screen shoot's accompanying interview.

"I won’t contradict the privilege that I have," Gerber told the outlet.

"Even if it’s conscionable the information that I person a truly large root of accusation and idiosyncratic to springiness maine large advice, that unsocial I consciousness precise fortunate for.

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Cindy Crawford's girl  Kaia Gerber shared her thoughts connected  the "nepo baby" label.

Cindy Crawford's girl Kaia Gerber shared her thoughts connected the "nepo baby" label. (Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)

"My ma always joked, ‘If I could telephone and publication a Chanel campaign, it would beryllium for maine and not you,’" Gerber quipped.

"But I besides person met astonishing radical done my ma whom I present get to enactment with."

Gerber began modeling astatine the property of 10 erstwhile she landed a run for the Versace children and juniors line, Young Versace. When Gerber was 16, she made her New York Fashion Week debut, walking for Calvin Klein's Spring 2018 postulation successful September 2017. 

She deed the runway for large manner houses, including Chanel, Marc Jacobs and Prada during Spring 2018 Fashion Weeks successful New York, London, Paris and Milan. 

Gerber said she "wouldn't contradict  the privilege" she has arsenic  a girl  of a supermodel.

Gerber said she "wouldn't contradict the privilege" she has arsenic a girl of a supermodel. (Pietro D'Aprano/Getty Images)

Crawford and Gerber walked unneurotic during Versace's Spring 2018 fashion amusement successful Milan. Over the past fewer years, Gerber has fronted campaigns for apical decorator labels and appeared connected galore mag covers, including Vogue's coveted "Big Four," an accomplishment she completed by property 18.

Gerber made her acting debut successful the 2016 TV movie "Sister Cities" and starred successful FX's "American Horror Stories" and "American Horror Story: Double Feature." The California native told Elle acting is present her "primary focus." She explained she besides sees a quality successful the interaction of nepotism betwixt the acting and modeling industries.

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"With acting, it’s truthful different," she said. "No creator is going to sacrifice their imaginativeness for someone’s kid. That conscionable isn’t however creation is made, and what I’m funny successful is art.

"Also, nary 1 wants to enactment with idiosyncratic who’s annoying and not casual to enactment with and not kind. Yes, nepotism is prevalent, but I deliberation if it really was what radical marque it retired to be, we’d spot adjacent much of it."

The "American Horror Stories" histrion   besides  shared vocation  proposal  that Crawford had fixed  her.

The "American Horror Stories" histrion besides shared vocation proposal that Crawford had fixed her. (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Edward Enninful)

The 2018 Fashion Awards "Model of the Year" victor besides shared immoderate vocation proposal her celebrated parent gave her.

"Be connected time," Gerber said. "Take the clip to larn people’s names, and beryllium bully to everyone. If you’re not grateful and blessed to beryllium there, there’s idiosyncratic who would be.

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"Even erstwhile I was truly bushed oregon wanted to spell location oregon felt lonely, I would punctual myself however fortunate I was. Another happening she told maine is, ‘I privation I had written much down,’ due to the fact that you deliberation you’re going to retrieve these astonishing moments forever, and 1 day, it’s hard to adjacent cognize what sprout that was, wherever it happened and when. And truthful I wrote it down; I journaled."

During her interrogation with Elle, Gerber besides reflected connected increasing up with a supermodel parent and the corporate "aftershock" erstwhile Crawford walked into a room.

"Yeah, the oversea parts," she said. "Especially erstwhile I started modeling, everyone would beryllium like, ‘Oh my God, your ma is truthful iconic,’ and I’d beryllium like, ‘She’s my mom.’ "

Ashley Hume is an amusement writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and connected Twitter: @ashleyhume

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