Suki Waterhouse says she won’t stand in her daughter’s way if the two-year-old eventually wants a career in entertainment — connections and all.
Asked in a new Nylon interview whether she’d encourage her child with fiancé Robert Pattinson to follow her parents into show business, Waterhouse didn’t hedge. She said she’d have no reason to discourage it, then added, with a laugh, that she’d be nepo-babying her daughter without shame. She caught herself a beat later, joking that she probably should have kept that thought to herself.
The couple, engaged since December 2023, welcomed their daughter in March 2024 and have guarded nearly every detail about her, including her name, from public view since. Waterhouse’s comment marks one of the more candid glimpses she’s offered into how she thinks about the child’s future.
Both parents bring substantial industry weight to any future the girl might choose. Waterhouse built her career first as a model before moving into acting, with credits including “Love, Rosie” and “Daisy Jones & the Six,” and has more recently focused on music; her third album, “Loveland,” arrived this year. Pattinson has been a marquee name since playing Cedric Diggory in the “Harry Potter” franchise and Edward Cullen in “Twilight,” and now anchors major studio films including “The Batman” and “Mickey 17.” His latest role, as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen in “Primetime,” opens in theaters September 25 following its Venice Film Festival premiere, where Waterhouse joined him on the red carpet.
Elsewhere in the interview, Waterhouse reflected on the stretch of weeks following her daughter’s birth, describing the pace of returning to public life as intense. In short order she appeared on a British Vogue cover, headlined Coachella’s Gobi stage and opened for Taylor Swift, all while adjusting to new motherhood.
The “nepo baby” label Waterhouse invoked has become a fixture of entertainment commentary in recent years, typically applied to children of famous parents who land industry opportunities more easily than outsiders. Her remark reframes the term with self-aware humor rather than defensiveness, suggesting she sees the advantage as simply part of the reality her daughter would inherit rather than something to disguise.
