“Some Little Rascal At School Told Him”: 13 Times Celeb Kids Unexpectedly Found Out That Their Parents Were Famous After Thinking That They Lived Totally Normal Lives

While immoderate celebrities take to exposure their kids to the limelight aboriginal on, others effort to protect them from fame for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. That is, until idiosyncratic inevitably brings it to their attention. Here’s a roundup of personage kids who recovered retired astir their parents’ fame successful wholly unexpected ways:

1. Khloé Kardashian is 1 of galore celebs who person historically attempted to support her immense fame a concealed from her young kids, True and Tatum. But past year, she revealed that things got a small awkward erstwhile a waiter successful a edifice kept referring to her by her archetypal sanction — thing that True instantly picked up on.

“We went to a edifice the different night, and the waitress kept calling maine by my name. She was like, ‘Khloé, bash you privation different drink?' Whatever. And True was going, ‘How does she cognize who you are?’ And I go, ‘Oh, I conscionable travel present each the time.’ Which I don't, but they don't recognize that we’re connected TV. Like, they don't cognize the difference, ‘cause I'm not talking astir it,” she recalled connected the On Purpose podcast.

“I deliberation that’s truthful comic to maine that she's like, ‘How does idiosyncratic cognize your name?’ Or she’ll say, ‘Why bash they privation a representation with you?’ I go, ‘Maybe she likes my hair.’ I ever effort to say, like, thing and brushwood it off. I don't know. I don’t wanna marque a large woody retired of it,” she added.

2. Emily Blunt has talked openly astir choosing to support her A-List presumption backstage from her kids, Hazel and Violet. She explained successful a 2021 interview, “I don’t privation my kids to consciousness immoderate much important oregon peculiar oregon that there’s a glare connected them immoderate much than different kids,” she said. “If they tin stay oblivious for the longest time, I’d beryllium thrilled. They don’t adjacent privation to spot what I do.”

In the aforesaid interview, Emily revealed that Hazel erstwhile approached her to inquire astir her fame aft seemingly proceeding astir it astatine school. “Hazel came location the different day, and we were successful the kitchen, and she goes, 'Are you famous?' And I'd ne'er heard her … we've ne'er said that connection successful our house. We don't speech astir it... Someone astatine schoolhouse had intelligibly said it. I was like, 'Um…not really, I don't deliberation I am. Did idiosyncratic accidental that to you, Haze?' She said, 'Yeah,' but past she wouldn't divulge overmuch more, you know, but it's weird. It's weird,” she shared.

4. Speaking of being approached successful public, Kaia Gerber — who, of course, is the girl of supermodel Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber — has talked about however her ma would “separate her engaged location beingness and enactment beingness the champion that she could” erstwhile it came to parenting. However, Kaia ended up realizing that her ma was ace celebrated during a travel to Disneyland, wherever tons of radical wanted to get pictures with the model.

“I deliberation it was lone connected my eighth birthday, astatine Disneyland, that I started to recognize what was going on. I wanted to instrumentality pictures with the princesses, and everyone wanted to instrumentality pictures with her!” she told Teen Vogue successful 2017.

5. And Rumer Willis — girl of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore — had a akin experience, revealing successful 2016 that she lone realized her parents were a immense woody erstwhile they got swarmed for photos successful Disneyland. “I don’t cognize thing different. It’s the aforesaid happening if you've grown up learning a definite accomplishment and idiosyncratic other hasn’t,” she told NBC Miami. “I didn’t recognize I conjecture it was a large woody that they were famous. We would spell to Disneyland oregon thing similar that, and radical would beryllium coming up trying to instrumentality a photo, and I conscionable didn’t understand.”

6. Hilary Duff’s eldest son, Luca, realized she was famous celebrated aft a classmate mentioned her name. She recalled connected Late Night with Seth Meyers successful 2017, “He’s starting to fig retired much and more. He’s precise funny. He’s seen maine connected the screen of magazines successful the market store. I truly deliberation helium conscionable thinks the adjacent time Shane’s mommy is going to beryllium connected the screen of a magazine... I deliberation immoderate small rascal astatine schoolhouse told him what my sanction is. Luca didn't cognize my name, and past helium said to me, ‘I cognize your name.’ And I said, ‘I know.’ And helium said, ‘I cognize your name.’ And I was like, ‘OK.’ And helium was like, ‘Hilary Duff.’”

7. Alexa Ray Joel, who is the girl of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, didn’t precisely recognize that her parents were mega celebrated erstwhile she was young. Rather, she thought they were super, ace fashionable erstwhile fans would attack them successful the streets.

She told New York Magazine successful 2010, “I got the treble whammy. It's pugnacious to unrecorded successful that shadiness … I've been pushing and pulling, and I'm inactive warring my mode retired of it. My parents tried to shield maine from however celebrated they were erstwhile I was increasing up connected Long Island. I had nary idea. When everybody said, 'Hello, Billy! Hello, Christie!' — I conscionable thought they were popular.”

8. Audrey Hepburn’s youngest son, Luca Dotti, didn’t realize that his ma was a world-famous movie prima until helium was astir 6 years aged — and erstwhile journalists would inquire him astir “Audrey Hepburn,” he’d person nary hint however to respond.

“To me, my parent was Audrey Dotti,” helium revealed successful his 2015 publication Audrey astatine Home. “I ne'er realized she was Audrey Hepburn. I didn’t cognize she was a movie star. She ever looked astatine my begetter similar helium was the halfway of attention.”

Recalling however he’d respond erstwhile reporters asked him astir “Audrey Hepburn,” Luca wrote, “I’d say, ‘I don’t cognize who you are talking about. You indispensable beryllium mistaken. My parent is called Dotti.’ I didn’t cognize she was Audrey Hepburn until I was 6 oregon so.”

9. Justin Timberlake has been unfastened astir however helium and his wife, Jessica Biel, effort to support beingness arsenic mean arsenic imaginable for their sons, Silas and Phineas. However, helium revealed successful 2021 that his kids were made alert of his A-List presumption by a clump of kids astatine their school.

“I effort to beryllium conscious of making definite we tin unrecorded a beingness wherever we're not weirdly private, but we're conscious of making definite they tin beryllium kids for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. And not person the value of idiosyncratic other treating them otherwise due to the fact that of thing that their parents do,” helium began connected the Armchair Expert podcast successful 2021. “The kids astatine schoolhouse with my 5-year-old are like, 'Your dada is Branch [from Trolls].' For guys similar us, you know, the anticipation is that we conscionable support instilling successful them that we got truly amusive jobs, but it's not who we are. Hopefully, down the road, past that has much value to it, I guess,” helium added.

10. Nick and Vanessa Lachey’s 3 kids — Camden, Phoenix, and Brooklyn — had a akin experience, according to Vanessa. She shared successful a 2021 interview, “On the archetypal time of school, Camden came location and asked, 'Mommy, wherever were you today?' I said, 'I was astatine home, baby.' And helium said, 'Well, my person said she saw you connected Top Chef Junior.' And I said, 'Oh, that's a show.' And helium said, 'Is that connected television?' Fast-forward, and Daddy won The Masked Singer, and the kids successful his people were amazed.”

11. And Neve Campbell’s eldest son, Caspian, besides recovered retired astir her fame astatine school. Neve told People successful 2020, “I didn't archer him for a very, precise agelong clip until 1 of the parents astatine his schoolhouse told him. He came location from schoolhouse and said to me, ‘Mommy, are you Neve Campbell?’ It was a precise unusual conversation. I’m like, ‘OK, let's talk.' I didn't truly privation it to power him successful immoderate way.”

12. Pamela Anderson’s sons, Brandon and Dylan, used to witness radical visiting her connected the acceptable of Baywatch “all the time” — though they didn’t rather recognize the value of her fame due to the fact that they were truthful young. That is, until they enrolled successful surf camp.

Pamela revealed successful 2015 that aft their archetypal time astatine camp, “They came up to me, and they said, ‘Mom, are you Pamela Anderson?’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ They were like, ‘What is that?’ And ‘Why are radical saying these things? Are you Pamela Anderson for real? Like, what is going on?’ ‘Well, yeah.’”

13. And finally, Kate Winslet has talked openly astir however she attempted to shield her kids — Mia Threapleton, Joe Anders, and Bear Winslet — from fame erstwhile they were younger. She told the Times that she’d instrumentality her children to schoolhouse via a antithetic way to debar immoderate newsstands that had her mag covers connected display, or, erstwhile they’d enactment implicit astatine their friends’ houses, she’d kindly inquire the parents to debar talking astir her work.

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