We are living in a world in which Sofia Coppola is 51 years old and she has a 16-year-old daughter. Sofia actually has two daughters: Romy Mars, 16, and Cosima Mars, 12. Their father is Thomas Mars, the French musician, and Thomas and Sofia have been married since 2011. I have no idea where they live or how they raise their girls, but Romy has decided to shed some light on how she’s grown up. Keep in mind, Romy and Cosima are second-generation nepo babies. Sofia was arguably the Gen X poster girl for nepo babies, especially since she made a “name” for herself when her father, Francis Ford Coppola, cast her in The Godfather Part III. Anyway, second-gen nepo baby Romy is on TikTok and she made a hilarious video wherein she spoke about being grounded – for using her dad’s credit card to try to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland to have lunch with a “camp friend” – and then tried to make pasta and there’s something about a “fiascA” because of Women’s History Month. This is possibly the greatest directing project ever attached to the name “Coppola.”
this tiktok of sofia coppola’s daughter… this means so much to me pic.twitter.com/6AQtWNhAgG
— savannah ~* (@savbrads) March 21, 2023
What’s your favorite part? Where she doesn’t know the difference between onions and garlic so she slices up some shallots? Or when she claims her parents are “never home” so her babysitter and babysitter’s boyfriend are her “replacement parents”? Here’s the thing – I’ll buy that Sofia and Thomas are self-involved, but also… Romy seems like a completely normal (out-of-touch) kid. Sofia and Thomas cared enough to ground her, you know? But she’s from an Italian family and she doesn’t know the difference between shallots, onions and garlic? Mamma mia, mannaggia! (I absolutely guarantee that Francis Ford Coppola dotes on his granddaughters but he really needs to teach them how to cook.)
Sofia Coppola and Thomas Mars’s daughter holding up her father’s Grammy for fun on TikTok is actually something very special. pic.twitter.com/jtA2oAiO90
— Ryan (@boysforpeles) March 21, 2023
Photos courtesy of Getty, TikTok.
Teens gonna teen.
She’s cute and peppy and not yachting topless so Sofia is doing something right there.
I laughed. She’s adorable and I love that she doesn’t have her mother’s irritating “I’m just so above you” drawl. I love Sofia and have lived through all of her iterations from nepo actress to wanna be fashion designer to very talented writer/director but the way she speaks has always irritated me.
My favorite part is the perfectly off the shoulder shirt from a Caribbean sailing school.
This video is perfection, and I’m going to be so disappointed if someone unearths a bunch of old videos of her where she’s being super racist or something.
+1
I don’t know why but I found it dumb and highly annoying (and phony? She googled onions and garlic and comes back with neither? A shallot doesn’t even look like either one!). And her line that she’ll never get famous on TikTok, yeah, sure girl. You’ll get famous for being born to the right parent(s) just like all the other white, thin, talentless nepo children before you. That Gerber one probably lives in your building.
Oh good, thought it was just me. Not at all understanding what all the praise is about. I just see an incredibly spoiled, privileged girl who’s supremely out of touch with the rest of the planet. I’m not mad at her, the video is harmless, but I don’t get why people are going nuts about how amazing it is. She’s not doing anything of value.
I am right there with you. She sounds like a spoiled teen to me. Nothing cute about any of her behavior at all.
Yeah, she seems very spoiled and bratty. I knew a few girls like her in high school. I’ve seen the whole “I’m grounded for stealing my dad’s credit card to buy something obscenely expensive that we can obviously afford but now I’m complaining about it so you know how wealthy we are” with the eye roll schtick. Pass.
Some of us are moms of teen girls and let me tell you: they suffer like I never did.
We are in the “school vacation in Paris” strata (due to my putting myself through law, school and clawing my way to the top of the income scale which I don’t think I’m supposed to apologize for)
Mental health isn’t based on how much money you have although it’s a lot more damaging to live in poverty girls like Sofia’s daughter are not immune. The boys they know are still watching violent porn, Parents are getting divorced, “society” is calling them, sluts and stupid for posting bathing suit pics. It sucks and this kid seems to be ok.
I don’t understand or agree with all of the praise and attention, either. Sure, she’s a cute girl, born exceedingly privileged, who lives a pretty life, and how wonderful for her. But, over time, it’s gotten much harder for me to regard the self-promotion of the overprivileged as cute and funny.
@ Sue E Generis, I’m with you in that boat as well. Romy apparently seems determined to challenge her boundaries as much as possible.
I went to a Phoenix concert at radio city music hall some months ago and ended up sitting right next to Sophia, Romy, Cosima and what seemed like a whole bunch of UES private school friends and parents gathering. They were all (moms and kids alike) super thin, super pretty and had a very wealthy vibe. Like they live in a whole different, albeit harmless, bubble. Good for them I guess?? I definitely felt -and probaby was- like the only fat person around. Which is probably just me projecting, but it was definitely a thought in my mind how wealth and thinness is definitely correlated or at least expected.
It’s very much expected. It’s like high school, super competitive and you have to be the best at everything, including staying thin. God forbid your kid isn’t model-thin. If you look at any of the society pages you will not see a woman, even an older woman, over 130 lbs.
I saw this on twitter yesterday and was totally charmed by her! What a cutie
I’m 46 and learned what a shallot was, like, last year? Even at the grocery store, people were trying to tell me that green onions were shallots! I like shallots, not quite as oniony as an onion.
They’re good if you like a little onion flavor but not full on onions but you also want to use a real vegetable as opposed to powder
I agree. Shallots are a good compromise between onion and garlic. I didn’t know what a shallot was as a teenager. And I love shallots now in my middle age.
She’s cute and seems like an average kid her age, albeit a rich one, although she didn’t get away with the helicopter charter and apparently doesn’t have her own credit card so she stole her dad’s.
What gets me is the extreme conservative like Ben Shapiro are all over this for some reason. It’s creepy. They’re creepy. Leave Romy alone, guys.
She’s pretty adorable
So many great moments in that video — it’s a tie between the cameo from the babysitter’s shlubby boyfriend and her saying that her mom didn’t want her to become a nepo baby (as if her mom isn’t a nepo baby)
I thought the guy was her babysitter and she was referring to the dog as his boyfriend / the two of them as her replacement parents hahaha
Whilst not the first nepo (is that Jamie Lee?) but the worst ever and a young nepo was that spelling woman. A terrible actress turned anything for dosh tori
I think Isabella Rossellini is older than Jamie Lee Curtis no?
Carrie Fisher too. And let’s not forget Ed Begley Jr.
Oh, and Michael Douglas. And the Fonda kids – Jane and Peter.
I believe the first Hollywood nepo baby was Douglas Fairbanks Jr in the 1920’s, despite his father vehemently being against him entering movies and wanting him to go to college instead (but then, Fairbanks Jr in his autobiography says he really only did it because his mother, Fairbanks Sr’s ex who had remarried, was poor with money).
Don’t forget Angelica Houston and Ron Howard, and Desi Arnaz Jr.
So many! Lol and George clooney too.
Jane & Peter Fonda
Rob Reiner
Keith and David Carradine
John, Lionel & Ethel Barrymore
Nepo Babies all
And all of them had children who went on to be nepo babies too
I am just thankful I had sons.. lol I could not have kept up with a daughter in her teens. Being grounded for chartering a helicopter on her fathers credit card is a new one to me and I have seen a lot of wealthy clueless teenage girls. She will probably be grounded next for being on SM and this video since she states she isn’t allowed to have SM accounts.🤦🏻♀️ I truthfully found it funny and I was extremely grateful my children are well beyond their teenage years, fb was strictly for university email addresses when my oldest went off to university.
Sure she’s privileged but I found this unexpectedly funny and charming and genuine. It was apparently deleted from TikTok fairly rapidly and went viral when someone saved it and posted it to Twitter. She’s double grounded now.
The bar is so low for Nepos. I saw absolutely nothing special about this.
What I learned from this is Sophia and Thomas are absent parents who didn’t teach their daughters to cook. My daughter was 10 when she learned how to make a pasta sauce from scratch with whatever we had on hand. It’s all about cooking the onions and garlic first.
I TOTALLY agree that the bar is absurdly low for nepo kids. if they’re not GIGANTIC assholes, people fawn all over them like they’re the most charming kids EVER. If they’re SORT of good looking, they get modeling contracts. (imo, if Bela Hadid and Kaia Gerber were not the kids of celebrities, they might still be models, but theyd be nowhere near the level they’re at) If they can figure out how to use a camera AND their father is David Beckham, they get a photographer gig at Gucci straight out of high school. No wonder society is going to hell. we’re damn near turning into an aristocracy, and we can see how well that went for the UK…
“It’s not like I’ll be famous on Twitter” she says.
31.5 million views later…
She’s not as grating as I expected and I honestly laughed at the shallot being “like the insides of a ballsac” line. But man… Between the helicopter charter and sending her babysitter’s boyfriend out to RUN ERRANDS FOR HER (catch that? He’s getting the groceries she forgot for the stupid pasta)… Isn’t this the same nepo rich privilege shit we see in the Murdaugh case? Sure she’s not murdery. But you think she’ll see jail if she does?
As for how well she’s being parented. Jesus the bar is so fucking low for wealthy white famous rich people. Y’all crediting her parents for grounding her … SHE TRIED TO CHARTER A HELICOPTER FOR LUNCH.
How spoiled rich and privileged is her milleue that she couldn’t even THINK to do that?
We need to increase inheritance tax NOW
I bet she tags along to her mom’s chartered flights all the time, probably just to have lunch with some designer or actor. Alternate universe, but very likely not a huge leap for her to think it’s okay.
That said, the attempted flight chartering, this tik tok, attempting to cook, and holding a kitchen knife are probably the most rebellious things she’s ever done in her young life. I think that’s why people are like, “Awww, the innocence.” Make no mistake, her parents are horrified; nothing so lowbrow as tik tok when you’re an artistes like Sophia and Thomas (Toe-Mah).
Of course the babysitter’s boyfriend had to go out and get the groceries. She’s not supposed to leave the house ’cause she’s grounded.
At LEAST she’s semi-obedient — not counting TikTok as a social media account? LOL
It’s really bizarre that this has gotten so much attention. Why do adults love pretty rich IT girls so much? People were obsessed with Apple Paltrow during that fashion show and she didn’t even speak lol. This video is like a normal teen girls video. I don’t want her to get hate, but she shouldn’t be getting love or adoration from grown adults either. It’s weird and makes me so uncomfortable.
C’mon, I can’t believe that some of you are taking this video seriously! Do you really think that the granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola, a noted gourmand and restauranteur, doesn’t know the difference between an onion and a shallot? Or, that Ari was going out to buy her a bottle of vodka for her pasta recipe? I thought it was a cute and very funny take on nepo babies and privileged, air-head, private school teens. You go, Romy!
💯 this!
Seriously. Sofia is also a foodie if not as expert as her dad and asked her father to teach her to cook, I’m sure she’s taught her children.
Yeah, she was in on the joke, I’m sure. Though I believe her that she isn’t allowed to have public social media and her parents probably made her take it down once they caught wind of it.
I can’t believe so many of you are taking this seriously or literally. It’s obviously a joke! All of it!
Please, a half French kid with Italian family will always know what garlic, onion or shallots are.
She’s very cute and I think it was funny.
This. My god, the French have mirepoix in their veins! She knows what an onion is.
That’s how I interpreted it! One giant joke and poking fun at actual nepo babies trying to have cooking shows and such. I thought it was cute.
Yes this. Of course she knows even if she doesn’t cook herself. It was a joke!
Agreed! She 100% knows what a shallot is, and also fully knew that she’d get in more trouble for posting on TikTok. I found it quite funny.
It stills grates me, though, that people can be that rich and privileged. If you’ve read the IPCC report on the climate crisis that came out on Monday, and consider the ecological footprint of the richest people, combined with our interest in those people (oh yeah, I’m an avid gossip reader, too!) , people whose lives and lifestyle are also pushed upon us by mainstream media every day, that’s just heartbreaking (or infuriating). As someone wrote earlier, please tax the ultra-rich. And please stop the fossile fuel lobbyists. Because otherwise neither Romy nor my own, preteen daughter or all of your kids will have a happy future.
She obviously loves her daughter and has great hopes for her. And why not?
I found it completely cringey.
—unless it was completely satirical.
this is just how a nepo baby should act
admit you are a nepo baby and just being out of touch
I rather see this type of nepo baby than i-work-hard-to-be-here nepo baby
I can’t believe this many people are blind to her bratty snobish up-her-behind attitude that is just pouring out of her facial expressions and way of talking.
Eye-rolling so hard, I wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out with her if she was in my high school… The only friends she has are bought since people obvs want to be around her for the clout
She went after her dad’s card and not her mom’s?? How rich is her dad?