Home » Latest » Celebrity » 10 Celebrity Kids ALL GROWN UP

10 Celebrity Kids ALL GROWN UP

2

InfoSearched 36 0 Celebrity

8.2

SaveSavedRemoved 1

The children who grew up under paparazzi flashbulbs are now old enough to build their own résumés.

For most of the last two decades, the kids of A-list actors, musicians and supermodels were background characters in someone else’s tabloid story — a hand being held on a red carpet, a face in a stroller outside a premiere. That’s changed fast. A wave of famous offspring, several now in their late teens, are stepping in front of the camera on their own terms, and TheThings’ rundown of “10 Celebrity Kids ALL GROWN UP” tracks exactly how they’re doing it.

• Brooklyn Beckham, 18, released his debut photography book “What I See” in mid-2017 and is preparing to enroll at a university in New York.
• Jaden Smith, who broke through as a child actor in “The Karate Kid,” has since moved into experimental music, fashion design and a role on Netflix’s “The Get Down.”
• Lily-Rose Depp, 18, became a Chanel brand ambassador under Karl Lagerfeld and has already appeared in Kevin Smith’s “Tusk” and the film “The Dancer.”

Brooklyn Beckham Puts Down the Soccer Ball and Picks Up a Camera

David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son spent his childhood as tabloid shorthand for “famous baby,” but he’s spent the last two years building an actual portfolio. Brooklyn signed with Burberry as a teenage model and then pivoted toward photography, publishing “What I See” through Random House this summer — a collection built from his own shoots rather than a ghostwritten memoir. The timing lines up with his next move: enrolling at a university in New York this fall, putting an ocean between him and the London tabloids that have tracked him since birth.

“What I See,” out since June 2017, is Brooklyn’s first professional credit under his own name — not his parents’.

Jaden Smith Turns Childhood Stardom Into a Genre-Bending Career

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s son made his name at age 10 in the 2010 remake of “The Karate Kid,” but he’s spent his teens refusing to stay in one lane. Jaden has released his own music under the MSFTSrep label, walked runways in gender-fluid fashion lines, and landed a recurring role on Baz Luhrmann’s Netflix series “The Get Down.” Where a lot of former child actors fade after the roles that made them famous, Jaden’s approach has been to keep adding disciplines rather than repeating the one that worked.

Lily-Rose Depp Becomes the Face of Chanel

Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis’s daughter made her acting debut at 15 and hasn’t slowed down since. She’s now a Chanel brand ambassador under the late Karl Lagerfeld — a designer-level endorsement that most models spend a decade chasing — and has already built an acting résumé that includes Kevin Smith’s horror-comedy “Tusk” and the biographical drama “The Dancer.” At 18, she’s positioned herself as both a runway fixture and a working actress, not just a famous name attached to a magazine cover. Her modeling ascent runs parallel to what a lot of aspiring models are chasing on shows like America’s Next Top Model, minus the competition format.

The Rest of the Second-Generation Class

Lily-Rose, Jaden and Brooklyn aren’t the only ones making this leap. Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon has moved from staying largely out of the press toward fashion and modeling work of her own. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas’s kids, Dylan and Carys Douglas, and Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, all fall into the same bracket — famous surname, separate identity being built in real time. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s eldest, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, rounds out the group, and his younger sister’s own possible move into modeling has drawn comparable attention — the kind covered in Is Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Ready To Delve Into The Modeling Industry?

What ties all of them together isn’t the surname — it’s that none of them are coasting on it. Brooklyn’s got a book on shelves and a dorm room waiting in New York; Lily-Rose has a Chanel contract most 18-year-olds would sell a limb for; and Jaden’s still out there making records nobody asked for and somehow making it work anyway.