Many mother and father worth offering a greater life for his or her youngsters than that they had rising up. Nevertheless, when these mother and father are wealthy and well-known, it may be straightforward to indulge them. Some celebs like to spoil their youngsters, whereas others completely refuse to.
Listed below are 12 celeb mother and father who seemingly spoil their youngsters:
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In 2011, Salma Hayek informed Allure, “I by no means understood the purpose of being privileged if you aren’t getting to have the privileges. Like, individuals who will not take their youngsters to an costly restaurant, or will not journey with them, or make them pay for all the pieces at a extremely younger age. I feel it is essential that youngsters have obligations and perceive the worth of issues, however I feel it is nice that my daughter [Valentina] will get to journey the world.”
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In 2018, Cardi B informed W Magazine, “I’ll be very strict [as a parent]. Like, you possibly can have no matter you need, however you possibly can’t do no matter you need.”
Cardi’s husband, Offset, purchased their daughter, Kulture, a Birkin for her second birthday. On her Instagram story, Cardi addressed criticism from followers, saying, “When celebrities purchase their youngsters jewellery and designer shit, folks be like, ‘Children do not care about that. They solely care about toys and sweet.’ Yeah, they solely care about toys and sweet, however the factor is, the children additionally go outdoors. You understand what I am saying? Children go to eating places; youngsters go to fancy locations, movie star youngsters, they go do pink carpets.”
“And if I am fly and Daddy’s fly, then so is the child. If I am sporting Cha-nay-nay, my child’s having the identical similar, you realize what I am saying? It is less than what the children like. If it was the children, they’d be outdoors in diapers. As a result of if I used to be trying like a foul bitch, costly bitch, and I’ve my child trying like a bum bum, then y’all can be speaking shit. So I am not mad that Daddy purchased child a Birkin. She’s gonna match Mommy,” she mentioned.
Nevertheless, she additionally desires her youngsters to grasp their privilege. In 2022, she informed Vogue Singapore, “They should know to by no means really feel snug. Do not ever really feel like, ‘I’ll get it as a result of I am Cardi and Offset’s child.’ They’re by no means going to know what battle looks like, so they won’t have that starvation I needed to depart the streets. Although my youngsters are well-off, I would like them to know that once you work for issues and obtain it, it is extra revered — particularly when folks see that you simply bust your ass for it.”
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On a Season 5 episode of The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian described the challenges of being a single mum or dad to 4 youngsters and the way she usually discovered it simpler to present into their calls for. She mentioned, “I do not know why I haven’t got it in me to be tremendous strict. Neither one in every of my mother and father had been strict. Khloé is lots higher at being stricter. I want I used to be extra like that, however, you realize, I am only one individual, and it is overwhelming. Simply, how do I am going about doing this all?”
Throughout a cellphone name, she mentioned, “Something within the residence, it is just a bit chaotic proper now. Oh my God, no, what I wished to say was that I had a Zoom interview on the home with all my youngsters there, banging on the door, simply screaming. And I used to be actually hiding in a rest room with the door locked as a result of I used to be identical to, ‘I am unable to imagine this.’ I imply, I can imagine it, however that is, like, my largest nightmare…I am open to something at this level as a result of I am unable to stay like this.”
In one other confessional, she mentioned, “Typically it will get just a bit intense. I wanna be extra strict like Khloé, however I do not know why I’ve a tough time simply saying, ‘No is not any.’ I feel I additionally do not wanna take care of the whining and the tears of not getting their means. They know when to con me and when to throw the little, you realize, begin with the tears in order that I am like, ‘Cease, cease! Positive, take an iPad! You understand, simply cease.’ I simply need to be like, ‘I do not care when you’re gonna throw a tantrum in entrance of everybody proper now. The answer is no.’ I will at all times be there for my youngsters, and I’ll experience out something with them. However, to say that it doesn’t take an emotional toll typically can be mendacity…Managing 4 youngsters and a family after they’re not getting alongside, and so they all need various things, and I am just one individual.”
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In a 2022 Instagram story publish, Kylie Jenner took her daughter, Stormi, to Harrods, the place they checked out the Kylie Cosmetics and Kylie Pores and skin show then shopped in a specifically curated room that had been arrange for Stormi to buy. It featured toys, garments, purses, footwear, and equipment. Within the video, Kylie mentioned, “Look what Harrods did for Stormi to buy groceries. Is that this not the craziest? You’re a spoiled, spoiled woman.”
A 12 months prior, Stormi’s dad, Travis Scott, rented a traditional faculty bus to make her desires come true. Sharing photos on her Instagram story, Kylie mentioned, “All Stormi has been speaking about is using in an enormous yellow bus. Daddy shocked her.”
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In 2012, just a few months after his and Beyoncé’s oldest daughter, Blue Ivy, was born, Jay-Z informed Oprah’s Master Class: Special Edition, “Nicely, I imply, everybody imagines they’re going to be an ideal dad. Till they’re youngsters saying, ‘Get away from me, Dad. You are embarrassing me!’ Proper? Everybody imagines that, proper? I think about I will take issues I realized from my mother and issues I’ve realized from elevating my nephews and apply that. Then on the finish of the day, I simply know I will most likely have the worst, spoiled little child ever.”
Based on Hello! Magazine, Blue Ivy reportedly obtained a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll encrusted with diamonds and value an estimated $80,000 as a primary birthday current from her mother and father.
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Based on grandpa Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katherine Schwarzenegger and Chris Pratt’s youngsters are “somewhat spoiled.” In 2024, he informed The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, “They arrive over to the home at the least, I feel, as soon as every week, after which I play with the animals with them…We’ve got actually an ideal, nice time. The one factor is that they’re somewhat spoiled, as a result of once I took them to the stall and requested them to assist me, you realize, shovel the manure, they mentioned no. Chris, instantly, mentioned, ‘No no, they aren’t introduced up to do this.'”
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In a 2021 stand-up efficiency on Comedy Central, Kevin Hart mentioned, “This pandemic truly gave me an opportunity to spend so much of time with my youngsters — plenty of fucking time with my youngsters. For the primary time, I noticed my youngsters are somewhat spoiled. They’re somewhat spoiled, but it surely’s not about selection; it is about circumstances. I’ve good youngsters. My youngsters are nice fucking youngsters. I gotta be sincere, man. I received very fortunate. I received nice youngsters, however due to their circumstances, they’re somewhat spoiled. For instance, my youngsters have been flying personal since they have been born. They did not ask for that. They had been born into that. They solely journey with me.”
He continued, “The primary time they traveled outdoors of me was throughout this pandemic with my ex-wife. Went again to Philadelphia with their mother to go see their grandmom. My youngsters known as me from the airport. You’ll’ve thought my youngsters had been in Baghdad. I’ve by no means seen the next degree of panic in my fucking life. Name me from the airport, ‘Dad!’ ‘What’s taking place?’ My daughter was like, ‘They’re taking my lotions and my toothpaste. What am I speculated to do? They’re making me stroll via metallic.’ My son snatched the cellphone, ‘What the fuck is occurring, Dad? They will not let me take my baggage on the aircraft. They mentioned I am unable to take my backpacks and my pulleys and my duffies, saying I gotta put my video games beneath. Nicely, how am I gonna play them, Dad?'”
“I informed each, ‘Chill out, cease it. Cease, each of you. It is known as safety. It is known as TSA, okay. That is known as life along with your mom, alright? There is a distinction. It is a drop-off. It is alright. Issues change. It is okay. You may each be high-quality.’ I ignored among the issues that I do as a result of I by no means thought twice about them,” he mentioned.
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In a joint 2013 interview together with his then-14-year-old son Jaden, Will Smith informed New York Magazine, “It’s humorous. Willow and Trey went in fully the other way. Like, Willow solely retailers at Goal. Jaden is admittedly the one one in every of my youngsters that has somewhat little bit of a style for, uh…[Cartier]…Sure, he has somewhat little bit of a style. However he connects his duty to working and creating to the enjoyable that he enjoys with the finer issues.” Jaden mentioned, “There was a time in my life once I’d go to Cartier, like, each weekend for like a month. However, now I am …I’ve 4 rings I am not sporting in the present day. I have never purchased something that costly in a extremely very long time. The one factor I purchase is, like, meals and skateboards.”
Then Will identified that Jaden’s spending habits modified when he began making personal cash, including, “As soon as he began approving his personal financial institution statements and bank cards and all, yeah, he modified.”
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In 2022, Blake Shelton informed Fox News Digital, “For Christmas this 12 months, it is simply going to be plenty of meals. I like meals. We spoil the children. Gwen [Stefani] actually spoils the children, and hopefully, we are able to spend as a lot day out within the nation in Oklahoma as doable.”
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In 2024, Jason Derulo informed Us Weekly that the best way he grew up makes it “onerous” for him to not spoil his son, Jason King. He mentioned, “For me rising up, all of my struggles had been precise struggles. And for him, the struggles need to be form of created, you realize, which I am glad to do, and I feel we’re simply taking it someday at a time … [and] pray for one of the best.”
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In 2017, Tyga informed E! News that his son Cairo “likes all the pieces that [Tyga] like: vehicles, ladies, jewellery.” He mentioned, “I am making an attempt to chop again with him on the presents as a result of he will get very, very spoiled. He’s very spoiled. He thinks he’s speculated to have all of that, so I’ve to form of train him that I work onerous to get all the pieces. He is form of like, ‘Decide me up from faculty within the Bentley in my Bentley automobile seat.’ He is form of like — not that he is spoiled — however that is all he is aware of. You have to form of train him different issues and that you have to work for that stuff.”
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And in 2011, Formulation One Group founder Bernie Ecclestone informed the Guardian, “The children have had entry to the cash. The concept was that they’d purchase super-quality property, property that might be long run, for his or her youngsters and all the pieces else. Did not occur. They have not finished that. So that they’ve had entry to cash which they’ve spent.” For instance, his youngest daughter, Petra, reportedly did not inform him she was spending $12 million on her wedding ceremony.
And now, listed below are 15 well-known mother and father who refuse to spoil their youngsters:
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In 2017, Viola Davis informed People that, in terms of her and Julius Tennon’s daughter, her “primary worry” is “entitlement.” She mentioned, “I by no means had a home; Genesis has a home. I do store at Goal; I purchase all her garments at Goal or H&M. And possibly, if I am feeling actually good, Nordstrom Rack.”
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In 2023, Shaquille O’Neal informed Business Insider, “I am not simply gonna give [my kids] cash for a celebration.” As an alternative, he practices “respectable nepotism,” the place his six youngsters are required to do their “due diligence” and create a “marketing strategy” earlier than asking him for cash. He added, “Because you need me to be the financial institution, I am gonna do precisely what the financial institution goes to do to you.”
He additionally prioritizes his youngsters’ training. In 2022, he informed Sunrise, “In an effort to get my cheese, you need to current me with two levels…I simply maintain them motivated. I am all about generational wealth proper now. I inform them on a regular basis, ‘ We do not want one other NBA participant in the home. If you wish to play, I can assist you get there, however I would moderately see a health care provider, dentist, hedge fund man, a veterinarian, or a world traveler.'”
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In a 2025 TikTok video with Got Sole, Ben Affleck went sneaker procuring together with his 13-year-old son, Sam. When Sam eyed a pair of Dior Air Jordan 1s — which retail for over $6,000 — Ben mentioned, “You want these ‘trigger they’re costly.” He would not purchase them. After studying the worth, he informed his son, “That is plenty of lawns you gotta mow there!”
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Elton John and David Furnish make certain their youngsters perceive their privilege and be taught to worth issues. In 2016, Elton informed the Guardian, “Nicely, they’re solely 5 and three. I will fear about it when it comes. I am their dad; I am well-known. They stay a unprecedented life. David and I speak about it on a regular basis; we’re absolutely conscious of the pitfalls which may occur. They’re spoilt in the best way they stay and the way they’re residing, however they don’t seem to be spoilt in terms of the foundations they need to stay by. They get £3 pocket cash, however £1 is for charity, £1 is for saving, and £1 is for spending. They get three cash and put them in separate jars. They usually need to work for it – assist in the kitchen, assist in the backyard.
“They have to be taught the worth of doing one thing and incomes one thing for themselves. They stay a really native life in Outdated Windsor. They go spherical their mates’ homes. It is not a showbiz life as such. They are not caught behind the gates of a mansion. Saturdays once I’m residence, we go to Pizza Hut with them, we go to Waterstones, we go to the cinema. I’ve by no means been a recluse; I’ve by no means hidden away. I am on the varsity run,” he mentioned.
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Jessica Alba and Money Warren’s three youngsters put on hand-me-downs. In 2023, she informed SheKnows, “Honor grows out of garments, after which it will get handed all the way down to Haven as an alternative of Haven shopping for brand-new stuff each time. And Hayes even inherited a few of Honor and Haven’s garments. I do plenty of, like, sharing and buying and selling with these sorts of issues, like garments or different residence objects. We attempt to not make something simply go to waste.”
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard do not let their daughters have their very own rooms. In 2020, Kristen informed Self, “It is crucial to me that they share a bed room. I feel their lives shall be simpler than most different folks’s on the planet, and to develop an excellent character, it is essential to at all times be going via one thing. I like the truth that they should work out easy methods to share a bed room, work out easy methods to share your closet, work out easy methods to share your area. If that is the worst factor about your life, that you need to share a bed room along with your sister, you are going to be okay.”
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David and Victoria Beckham made their oldest son get a part-time job. In 2015, David informed The Late Late Show with James Corden, “[Kids] need new sneakers; they need new soccer boots. It got here to the purpose the place [Brooklyn] turned 14, 14½, and I assumed, ‘You understand, if you’d like one thing, then go and work, and you have got your personal cash.’ So, a lot to his dismay, we packed him off to the French café, and he works there each Saturday and Sunday for just a few hours and will get his personal pocket cash.”
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On a 2020 episode of The Talk, Marie Osmond mentioned, “I am not leaving any cash to my youngsters. Congratulations, youngsters. My husband and I made a decision that you simply do an ideal disservice to your youngsters to simply hand them a fortune since you take away the one most essential reward you may give your youngsters, and that is the power to work. You see it lots in wealthy households the place the children do not know what to do, in order that they get in bother. So I simply allow them to be pleased with what they make, and I’ll give mine to my charity.”
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In 2024, Tyler Perry informed Sherri that his son, Aman, “do not get no Christmas checklist.” He mentioned, “He will get two issues: books and Legos…He haven’t got a job! What else is he going to get?”
Tyler continued, “He was complaining as soon as — this was about 5 years in the past. He was complaining about flying industrial ‘trigger the traces had been so lengthy. And Gelila [Bekele, Tyler’s ex-girlfriend] and I had been speaking. She known as up. She’s like, ‘We’re not flying in your aircraft anymore.’ Like, okay, high-quality. So that they have been going coach for years…in order that he understands I labored. He didn’t. So when he works, he can be taught that lesson. He isn’t gonna be a kind of ridiculous, spoiled wealthy youngsters. I am unable to stand that. No, he ain’t received no cash.”
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. need their youngsters to to be taught duty. In 2017, Sarah informed Today, “I do plenty of cooking with the children. I am massive on youngster labor. The children have to assist with the mashed potatoes. You need them to grasp what the method is. The whole lot does not come from a field in your own home…I don’t love the thought of giving them cash to do chores that they need to do anyway.”
Sarah additionally taught her youngsters to not be wasteful. She mentioned, “My daughter was doing this factor recently the place she was asking me for a cup of milk and never ingesting it. So I informed her that each time she’d ask me for a cup of milk and never drink it, I’d take 1 / 4 out of her piggy financial institution. Somebody has to pay for that milk.”
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In 2024, Jeff Goldblum informed the Table for Two podcast that he will not financially assist his and Emilie Livingston’s youngsters after they’re grown. He tells them, “Hey, you realize, you’ve received to row your personal boat.” He continued, “It is an essential factor to show youngsters. I am not going to do it for you. And you are not going to need me to do it for you. You have to work out easy methods to discover out what’s wished and wanted and the place that intersects along with your love and fervour and what you are able to do. And even when it does not, you may need to do this anyway.”
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Showing on the Morning Meeting podcast in 2021, Anderson Cooper mentioned he deliberate to comply with the lead of his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, and never depart his and Benjamin Maisani’s sons an inheritance. He mentioned, “I do not know what I will have. I am not that inquisitive about cash, however I do not intend to have some type of pot of gold for my son. I will go along with what my mother and father mentioned…’School shall be paid for, and then you definately gotta get on it.'”
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s son does not get brand-new garments. In 2016, she informed The Edit, “I’ll solely purchase secondhand garments for my son, James Wilkie. The documentary The True Price actually modified me. The one space I’ve had a tough time with is pants, however I purchase used T-shirts and sweaters for him. Observe pants are onerous — boys rip them; I do not know easy methods to get round that.”
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Madonna raised her youngsters in a different way than different movie star mother and father raised theirs. In 2023, her daughter, Lourdes Leon, informed Interview Magazine, “We do not get any handouts in my household. Clearly, I grew up with excessive privilege. There is no denying that. However I feel my mother noticed all these different youngsters of well-known folks, and he or she was like, ‘My youngsters are usually not going to be like this.’ Additionally, I really feel like in case your mother and father pay for issues, then it offers them leverage over you. My mother is such a management freak, and he or she has managed me my complete life. I wanted to be fully impartial from her as quickly as I graduated highschool.”
Lourdes continued, “She mentioned one thing to me not too long ago that has actually caught with me. I have been so involved with making an honest residing and desirous to stay extra luxuriously than I used to be once I first graduated and wasn’t incomes some huge cash. She was like, ‘Keep in mind, this shit just isn’t actual. It is not in regards to the cash or your face or how scorching you look. It is about what you’re bringing into the world and what you’re going to go away behind.’ That at all times shakes me awake once I get too caught up in all the pieces.”
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And at last, in 2017, Gordon Ramsay informed the Telegraph, “I’ve by no means been actually turned on in regards to the cash. That is not my primary goal, and that is mirrored in the best way the children are introduced up. Final time we went to Royal Hospital Highway [his three Michelin starred flagship restaurant] was for Megan’s sixteenth birthday, and that was the primary time we have ever eaten there with the children. They’ve served the Chelsea pensioners there for Christmas lunch, however not eaten there.”
He continued, “They do not sit with us in firstclass. They have not labored anyplace close to onerous sufficient to afford that. At that age, at that dimension, you are telling me they should sit in firstclass? No, they don’t. We’re actually strict on that. I flip left with Tana, and so they flip proper, and I say to the chief stewardess, ‘Be sure these little fuckers do not come anyplace close to us. I wish to sleep on this aircraft.’ I labored my fucking arse off to take a seat that near the pilot, and also you admire it extra once you’ve grafted for it…Tana got here from a brilliant set-up, and I am simply ‘educated tough’ from a council property. So we meet within the center, and the children bounce off each of us. They’ve a very totally different life than I did rising up. I labored my arse off to get out of the shit mess that I grew up in, and so they’re grateful. They are not spoilt.”
