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Guest Essay

By Molly Jong-Fast

Ms. Jong-Fast is an Opinion contributing writer.

Nobody really pities the celebrity nepo baby, much less the billionaire heiress, but when someone airs petty resentments about their famous families, it’s hard to look away. It can be stressful to be born on second or third base, always knowing that you’ll probably never quite equal your highly accomplished, likely somewhat megalomaniac mother or father (or both). And so we have Brooklyn Beckham, who this week went off about his celeb parents, specifically his mother, the Spice Girl turned fashion designer Victoria Beckham, for ruining his life.

Mr. Beckham wrote a series of posts on Instagram, beginning with: “I have been silent for years and have made every attempt to keep these matters........

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