Billie Eilish’s Mom Says Her Daughter Isn’t a Nepo Baby Just Because of Her Friends Cameo 25 Years Ago!

Photo Credit: Billie Eilish/Instagram; Maggie Baird/InstagramBIllie Eilish is one of the biggest names in the industry today being halfway to EGOT status at the age of 22. Her rise to the top with her unconventional and irreverent style has many conspiracy theorist tongues wagging about just how she got to where she is. And recent footage of her mother Maggie Baird on Friends from 1999 hasn’t exactly calmed down the rumors. But in a new Glamour Magazine interview sitting aside other showbiz moms like Tina Knowles and Mandy Teefy, she not only denounced remarks that her daughter was a nepo baby but laughed because she said she wasn’t all that famous or even successful in Hollywood to pull off nepotism.

For context purposes, Maggie and her husband Patrick O’Connell worked as actors from the 80s to the 2000s in shows ranging from Friends to The X Files to Curb Your Enthusiasm. And she said she appeared in an episode of Friends because she was about to lose her health insurance. Now to her detractors’ point, people tend to do a lot of things when they’re about to lose their health insurance. Appearing in the most popular show in America tends to not be one of them. Still, she got the audition which is a testament to her talent.

In regards to Maggie using her alleged Hollywood connections to get her children to make it, she laughs at saying, “I think it’s hilarious. Because that came out, and it was like, ‘Oh, Billie is a nepo baby.’ And I’m like, ‘Did you know that I got that episode of Friends because I was about to lose my health insurance?’” She went on to say, “I talked to a friend who was a casting director, and he got me an audition, and I got that part, which was a small part. But Friends became the biggest show ever. So, of all the things I’ve ever done in my career, that’s what every one has seen.” Addressing life with her husband, she said they were “working class actors,” adding “We eked out a meager living, and it afforded us a lot of time with our kids, which was awesome.” And as for their “lifestyle,” she said “The industry is primarily people like us or even people not even like us who couldn’t even do that. So when all of this happened to our kids, we’d never been on that side of it.”
Read the rest of the interview at Glamour here…