Many mother and father worth offering a greater life for his or her children than they’d rising up. Nonetheless, when these mother and father are wealthy and well-known, it may be straightforward to indulge them. Some celebs like to spoil their children, whereas others completely refuse to.
Listed below are 12 celeb mother and father who seemingly spoil their children:
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In 2011, Salma Hayek informed Attract, “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 children to an costly restaurant, or will not journey with them, or make them pay for every part at a extremely younger age. I believe it is necessary that youngsters have duties and perceive the worth of issues, however I believe it is nice that my daughter [Valentina] will get to journey the world.”
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 children jewellery and designer shit, folks be like, ‘Youngsters 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 exterior. You already know what I am saying? Youngsters go to eating places; children go to fancy locations, celeb children, they go do crimson 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, what I am saying? It is less than what the children like. If it was the children, they’d be exterior in diapers. As a result of if I used to be wanting like a foul bitch, costly bitch, and I’ve my child wanting 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 stated.
Nonetheless, she additionally needs her kids to know their privilege. In 2022, she informed Vogue Singapore, “They should know to by no means really feel comfy. 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 wrestle looks like, so they may not have that starvation I needed to depart the streets. Regardless that my children are well-off, I need 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 kids and the way she typically discovered it simpler to provide into their calls for. She stated, “I do not know why I haven’t got it in me to be tremendous strict. Neither one in all my mother and father have been strict. Khloé is lots higher at being stricter. I want I used to be extra like that, however, , I am only one particular person, and it is overwhelming. Simply, how do I am going about doing this all?”
Throughout a cellphone name, she stated, “Something within the house, it is just a bit chaotic proper now. Oh my God, no, what I needed to say was that I had a Zoom interview on the home with all my children 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 similar to, ‘I can not consider this.’ I imply, I can consider it, however that is, like, my greatest nightmare…I am open to something at this level as a result of I can not reside like this.”
In one other confessional, she stated, “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 isn’t any.’ I believe I additionally do not wanna cope with the whining and the tears of not getting their approach. They know when to con me and when to throw the little, , begin with the tears in order that I am like, ‘Cease, cease! Positive, take an iPad! You already know, simply cease.’ I simply should be like, ‘I do not care for those who’re gonna throw a tantrum in entrance of everybody proper now. The answer is no.’ I will at all times be there for my children, and I’ll journey out something with them. However, to say that it doesn’t take an emotional toll typically can be mendacity…Managing 4 children and a family once they’re not getting alongside, and so they all need various things, and I am just one particular person.”
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In a 2022 Instagram story put up, 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, sneakers, and equipment. Within the video, Kylie stated, “Look what Harrods did for Stormi to buy groceries. Is that this not the craziest? You’re a spoiled, spoiled woman.”
A yr prior, Stormi’s dad, Travis Scott, rented a traditional faculty bus to make her goals come true. Sharing photos on her Instagram story, Kylie stated, “All Stormi has been speaking about is using in a giant yellow bus. Daddy stunned her.”
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In 2012, a couple of months after his and Beyoncé’s oldest daughter, Blue Ivy, was born, Jay-Z informed Oprah’s Grasp Class: Particular Version, “Properly, I imply, everybody imagines they will be an amazing 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 in all probability have the worst, spoiled little child ever.”
In accordance with Hey! Journal, Blue Ivy reportedly obtained a one-of-a-kind Barbie doll encrusted with diamonds and price an estimated $80,000 as a primary birthday current from her mother and father.
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In accordance with grandpa Arnold Schwarzenegger, Katherine Schwarzenegger and Chris Pratt’s children are “a bit of spoiled.” In 2024, he informed The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, “They arrive over to the home no less than, I believe, as soon as every week, after which I play with the animals with them…Now we have actually an amazing, nice time. The one factor is that they’re a bit of spoiled, as a result of once I took them to the stall and requested them to assist me, , shovel the manure, they stated no. Chris, straight away, stated, ‘No no, they aren’t introduced up to try this.'”
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In a 2021 stand-up efficiency on Comedy Central, Kevin Hart stated, “This pandemic really gave me an opportunity to spend so much of time with my children — a number of fucking time with my children. For the primary time, I spotted my children are a bit of spoiled. They’re a bit of spoiled, nevertheless it’s not about alternative; it is about circumstances. I’ve good children. My children are nice fucking children. I gotta be sincere, man. I received very fortunate. I received nice children, however due to their circumstances, they’re a bit of spoiled. For instance, my children have been flying personal since they have been born. They did not ask for that. They have been born into that. They solely journey with me.”
He continued, “The primary time they traveled exterior of me was throughout this pandemic with my ex-wife. Went again to Philadelphia with their mother to go see their grandmom. My children known as me from the airport. You’ll’ve thought my children have been in Baghdad. I’ve by no means seen the next stage of panic in my fucking life. Name me from the airport, ‘Dad!’ ‘What’s occurring?’ My daughter was like, ‘They’re taking my lotions and my toothpaste. What am I purported to do? They’re making me stroll by way of steel.’ My son snatched the cellphone, ‘What the fuck is occurring, Dad? They will not let me take my baggage on the airplane. They stated I can not take my backpacks and my pulleys and my duffies, saying I gotta put my video games beneath. Properly, how am I gonna play them, Dad?'”
“I informed each, ‘Calm down, cease it. Cease, each of you. It is known as safety. It is known as TSA, okay. That is known as life together with your mom, alright? There is a distinction. It is a drop-off. It is alright. Issues change. It is okay. You will each be effective.’ I neglected a number of the issues that I do as a result of I by no means thought twice about them,” he stated.
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In a joint 2013 interview together with his then-14-year-old son Jaden, Will Smith informed New York Journal, “It’s humorous. Willow and Trey went in utterly the wrong way. Like, Willow solely outlets at Goal. Jaden is admittedly the one one in all my children that has a bit of little bit of a style for, uh…[Cartier]…Sure, he has a bit of little bit of a style. However he connects his accountability to working and creating to the enjoyable that he enjoys with the finer issues.” Jaden stated, “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 at this time. I have not 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 Information Digital, “For Christmas this yr, it is simply going to be a number of meals. I like meals. We spoil the children. Gwen [Stefani] actually spoils the children, and hopefully, we will spend as a lot trip within the nation in Oklahoma as attainable.”
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In 2024, Jason Derulo informed Us Weekly that the way in which he grew up makes it “onerous” for him to not spoil his son, Jason King. He stated, “For me rising up, all of my struggles have been precise struggles. And for him, the struggles should be form of created, , which I am joyful to do, and I believe we’re simply taking it at some point at a time … [and] pray for the very best.”
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In 2017, Tyga informed E! Information that his son Cairo “likes every part that [Tyga] like: automobiles, girls, jewellery.” He stated, “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 purported to have all of that, so I’ve to form of educate him that I work onerous to get every part. 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 educate him different issues and that you have to work for that stuff.”
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And in 2011, Components One Group founder Bernie Ecclestone informed the Guardian, “The children have had entry to the cash. The thought was that they’d purchase super-quality property, property that may be long run, for his or her children and every part else. Did not occur. They have not executed 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 marriage ceremony.
And now, listed here are 15 well-known mother and father who refuse to spoil their children:
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In 2017, Viola Davis informed Folks that, on the subject of her and Julius Tennon’s daughter, her “primary worry” is “entitlement.” She stated, “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 perhaps, if I am feeling actually good, Nordstrom Rack.”
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In 2023, Shaquille O’Neal informed Enterprise Insider, “I am not simply gonna give [my kids] cash for a celebration.” As an alternative, he practices “respectable nepotism,” the place his six children 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 children’ training. In 2022, he informed Dawn, “As a way to get my cheese, you must current me with two levels…I simply preserve 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 may help you get there, however I would reasonably see a physician, dentist, hedge fund man, a veterinarian, or a world traveler.'”
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In a 2025 TikTok video with Received Sole, Ben Affleck went sneaker purchasing 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 stated, “You want these ‘trigger they’re costly.” He would not purchase them. After studying the worth, he informed his son, “That is a number of lawns you gotta mow there!”
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Elton John and David Furnish ensure that their children perceive their privilege and study to worth issues. In 2016, Elton informed the Guardian, “Properly, they’re solely 5 and three. I will fear about it when it comes. I am their dad; I am well-known. They reside a rare life. David and I speak about it on a regular basis; we’re totally conscious of the pitfalls that may occur. They’re spoilt in the way in which they reside and the way they’re residing, however they don’t seem to be spoilt on the subject of the principles they should reside 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 should work for it – assist in the kitchen, assist in the backyard.
“They have to study the worth of doing one thing and incomes one thing for themselves. They reside a really native life in Outdated Windsor. They go spherical their mates’ homes. It is not a showbiz life as such. They don’t seem to be caught behind the gates of a mansion. Saturdays once I’m house, 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 college run,” he stated.
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Jessica Alba and Money Warren’s three kids 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 a number of, like, sharing and buying and selling with these forms of issues, like garments or different house 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 believe their lives shall be simpler than most different folks’s on the planet, and to develop a superb character, it is necessary to at all times be going by way of one thing. I like the truth that they must work out the way to share a bed room, work out the way to share your closet, work out the way to share your area. If that is the worst factor about your life, that you must share a bed room together 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 Present 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 believed, ‘You already know, 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 a couple of hours and will get his personal pocket cash.”
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On a 2020 episode of The Speak, Marie Osmond stated, “I am not leaving any cash to my kids. Congratulations, children. My husband and I made a decision that you simply do an amazing disservice to your kids to only hand them a fortune since you take away the one most necessary reward you may give your kids, and that is the flexibility to work. You see it lots in wealthy households the place the children do not know what to do, so that they get in hassle. 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 listing.” He stated, “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 strains have been so lengthy. And Gelila [Bekele, Tyler’s ex-girlfriend] and I have been speaking. She known as up. She’s like, ‘We’re not flying in your airplane anymore.’ Like, okay, effective. 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 study that lesson. He isn’t gonna be a kind of ridiculous, spoiled wealthy children. I can not stand that. No, he ain’t received no cash.”
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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. need their children to to study accountability. In 2017, Sarah informed At the moment, “I do a number of cooking with the children. I am massive on little one labor. The children have to assist with the mashed potatoes. You need them to know what the method is. Every part does not come from a field in your own home…I don’t love the concept of giving them cash to do chores that they need to do anyway.”
Sarah additionally taught her children to not be wasteful. She stated, “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 might 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 Desk for Two podcast that he will not financially help his and Emilie Livingston’s children once they’re grown. He tells them, “Hey, , you’ve received to row your personal boat.” He continued, “It is an necessary factor to show children. 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 the way to discover out what’s needed and wanted and the place that intersects together with your love and fervour and what you are able to do. And even when it does not, you might need to try this anyway.”
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Showing on the Morning Assembly podcast in 2021, Anderson Cooper stated he deliberate to comply with the lead of his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, and never depart his and Benjamin Maisani’s sons an inheritance. He stated, “I do not know what I will have. I am not that interested by cash, however I do not intend to have some kind of pot of gold for my son. I will go along with what my mother and father stated…’School shall be paid for, and you then 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 the way to get round that.”
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Madonna raised her kids in another way than different celeb mother and father raised theirs. In 2023, her daughter, Lourdes Leon, informed Interview Journal, “We do not get any handouts in my household. Clearly, I grew up with excessive privilege. There isn’t any denying that. However I believe my mother noticed all these different children of well-known folks, and he or she was like, ‘My children aren’t 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 utterly impartial from her as quickly as I graduated highschool.”
Lourdes continued, “She stated one thing to me just lately that has actually caught with me. I have been so involved with making a good residing and desirous to reside 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 concerning 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 every part.”
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And eventually, in 2017, Gordon Ramsay informed the Telegraph, “I’ve by no means been actually turned on concerning the cash. That is not my primary goal, and that is mirrored in the way in which the children are introduced up. Final time we went to Royal Hospital Street [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 wherever close to onerous sufficient to afford that. At that age, at that measurement, 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 wherever close to us. I wish to sleep on this airplane.’ I labored my fucking arse off to take a seat that near the pilot, and also you respect 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 totally completely 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 don’t seem to be spoilt.”
