Celebrities' Kids Who Resented Parents' Fame

by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffAs a staff writer at BuzzFeed, I write about all things celeb and pop culture.

Plenty of celebrities' children are famous in their own right, but growing up, many of them wished they could be anywhere but the spotlight.

Here are 15 kids of celebrities who low-key resented their parents' fame:

1.

In 2026, Dan Levy, the son of Eugene Levy and Deborah Divine, told Q with Tom Power that he "hated" having a famous dad growing up. He said, "I hated it. It caused some pain in my relationship with my dad. When you are a closeted person who is repressing parts of yourself and is feeling incredibly insecure about who you are and the space you take up in the world, the last thing you want is for people to be staring. The attention that we would get every time we left the house was incredibly uncomfortable for me. I started to distance myself from being with him in public."

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Thankfully, Dan and his dad had a heart-to-heart about why he felt the need to distance himself. He said, "I saw it as a necessity to keep myself feeling comfortable in the world as someone who was not comfortable in the world. And we had that conversation, and it was important for us to have that clarity. I think it was really important for him to understand why I acted the way I did for so long. ... I think I was too young to even explain that it made me uncomfortable. I just didn't want to do things. Baseball games? Absolutely not. Way too many eyes. Restaurants, a lot of eyes. So I would opt out of that. And somehow I still had a desire to perform."

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Aimée Osbourne, the oldest child of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, famously did not appear on her famous family's '00s reality show, The Osbournes. In 2020, she told Q1043 New York, "For me, I had grown up around having a pretty well-known dad anyway, and...I always really valued my privacy within that family. And for me personally, and for who I am, you know, as far as morally and also just to give myself a chance to actually develop into a human being as opposed to just being remembered for being a teenager, it didn't really line up with what I saw my future as. It definitely worked great for the rest of my family, but for me, and who I am, I just knew it was never something that I would have been able to consider realistically."

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Aimée was so serious about her decision that she moved out of her parents' house at 16 to avoid the cameras. On a 2018 episode of The Talk, Sharon said, "I know that my eldest girl, Aimée, left home at 16, and she couldn't live in our house because we were filming, and it drove her insane. She felt, too, that she didn't want to grow up on camera. She hated the idea — it was appalling to her. And so she left at 16, and I regret every day that she did. She was happy, but it broke my heart when she moved."

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In 2017, Willow Smith, the then-17-year-old daughter of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, told Girlgaze, "To be completely and utterly honest, [growing up famous is] absolutely terrible. ... Growing up and trying to figure out your life…while people feel like they have some sort of entitlement to know what's going on, is absolutely, excruciatingly terrible — and the only way to get over it, is to go into it."

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She continued, "You can't change your face. You can't change your parents. You can't change any of those things. So I feel like most kids like me end up going down a spiral of depression, and the world is sitting there looking at them through their phones, laughing and making jokes and making memes at the crippling effect that this lifestyle has on the psyche. When you're born into it, there are two choices that you have; I'm either going to try to go into it completely and help from the inside, or…I'm really going to take myself completely out of the eye of society. There's really no in-between."

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In 2026, amid rumors of a family feud, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham called out his parents, Victoria and David Beckham, on his Instagram stories. In a series of posts, he said, "I have been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed. I do not want to reconcile with my family. I'm not being controlled, I'm standing up for myself for the first time in my life."

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He continued, "For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family. The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born in