Fortunately, an anonymous user on Quora has already answered the question as to what it’s like to be a celebrity’s child. As a child of a writer father, daughter of a famous talk show host, and niece of a famous actress, she described the many pros and many cons of being a celebrity’s child. Some of the pros included being surrounded by creative people and being able to learn a lot. She met a lot of famous people and it became the norm, and even had teachers who were mean and authoritarian towards the kids become much less mean when they learned who her father was.
People, in general, tried to help her more and be nicer to her, but she also felt like some people would try to avoid her to stay out of trouble as well as to not be perceived as manipulative. However, the Quora user would try to give a balanced tone as to the pros and cons but spoke a lot more to the cons. She would say that in some ways, it became like a prison, especially when her father became an alcoholic after her grandmother died. Sometimes, her father would be aggressive and get drunk a couple of days a week, but never when he had an interview. Nobody outside the family and circle of friends knew. No one could talk about it either because they didn’t want to disappoint other people’s perception of her father.
