Trendsetting celebrity kids the latest pop-culture obsession

ALLIE HAGAN, creator of Suri’s Burn Book, a satirical blog that skewers our obsession with the offspring of celebrities, commented on the massive shift that has occurred in celebrity culture in the last 20 years in an interview with The Hairpin.

“The pop culture obsession with celebrity children is a very new phenomenon,” she says. “The example I like to give is that Michael J Fox was one of the biggest celebrities in America in the ’90s. He has four kids and I don’t even know their names. People just didn’t care that much.”

It’s a very different landscape today, Hagan believes, saying that, “...then the internet came, People and US got websites and TMZ came into existence and there was suddenly a 24-hour news cycle for celebrity news. There are so many movie stars, so they needed someone to write about, and the natural extension of that was celebrity children.”