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The Irish Sun
06-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Nepo baby with VERY famous Hollywood A-list mum launches new YouTube career – can you guess who she is?
She first started out acting alongside her Hollywood mum in 2002 new direction Nepo baby with VERY famous Hollywood A-list mum launches new YouTube career – can you guess who she is? A NEPO baby whose mum is an A-list Hollywood star is branching out to launch her very own YouTube career. The daughter of the movie superstar is keen to make a bigger name for herself but has admitted in a new interview she has made peace with being known thanks to her parents. 5 This nepo-baby has landed a brand new YouTube series Credit: Getty - Contributor 5 But do you know her seriously famous mother? Credit: Getty But can you work out who her very famous mother is? Eva Amurri initially followed in her mother's footsteps to be an actress but she has now shifted her focus to a YouTube show, Happily Eva After, following her house renovation plans in Westport, Connecticut. But Eva has always lived a life in front of the camera thanks to being the daughter of the legendary Susan Sarandon. Susan and director Franco Amurri welcomed Eva in 1985 and she has long faced backlash due to her nepo baby status when she tried to break into the acting world. Now a mother-of-three, Eva spends most of her time working as a content creator and an interior designer and has pulled her two passions together for her new series. In a new interview with People magazine, Eva confessed that she's aware people have always pre-judged her for being Susan's daughter but revealed she no longer feels the need to correct any of their assumptions. The nepo-baby told the publication: "People just have all different kind of perceptions of it. And to be honest, I'm like a 40-year-old mom, three kids, married for the second time. "I really have no interest in correcting them. So I just don't, you know what I mean? I don't really care." Eva's private life has been the subject of much discussion, including her highly publicised divorce from soccer star Kyle Martino. The divorce became final just a month and a half before Eva gave birth to the pair's third child together. Eva Amurri stars as a seductive schoolteacher in That's My Boy Last year, she got married once more to tech entrepreneur, Ian Hock. Her acting career began when she co-starred alongside her mother in The Banger Sisters in 2002. She then acted alongside her mother once more as a guest star in the sitcom Friends. Eva's last major role was when she appeared in the 2015 series, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. 5 She is the daughter of Susan Sarandon Credit: Getty 5 She was one of Hollywood's first nepo-babies Credit: AFP
Scottish Sun
06-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Nepo baby with VERY famous Hollywood A-list mum launches new YouTube career – can you guess who she is?
She first started out acting alongside her Hollywood mum in 2002 new direction Nepo baby with VERY famous Hollywood A-list mum launches new YouTube career – can you guess who she is? Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A NEPO baby whose mum is an A-list Hollywood star is branching out to launch her very own YouTube career. The daughter of the movie superstar is keen to make a bigger name for herself but has admitted in a new interview she has made peace with being known thanks to her parents. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 5 This nepo-baby has landed a brand new YouTube series Credit: Getty - Contributor 5 But do you know her seriously famous mother? Credit: Getty But can you work out who her very famous mother is? Eva Amurri initially followed in her mother's footsteps to be an actress but she has now shifted her focus to a YouTube show, Happily Eva After, following her house renovation plans in Westport, Connecticut. But Eva has always lived a life in front of the camera thanks to being the daughter of the legendary Susan Sarandon. Susan and director Franco Amurri welcomed Eva in 1985 and she has long faced backlash due to her nepo baby status when she tried to break into the acting world. Now a mother-of-three, Eva spends most of her time working as a content creator and an interior designer and has pulled her two passions together for her new series. In a new interview with People magazine, Eva confessed that she's aware people have always pre-judged her for being Susan's daughter but revealed she no longer feels the need to correct any of their assumptions. The nepo-baby told the publication: "People just have all different kind of perceptions of it. And to be honest, I'm like a 40-year-old mom, three kids, married for the second time. "I really have no interest in correcting them. So I just don't, you know what I mean? I don't really care." Eva's private life has been the subject of much discussion, including her highly publicised divorce from soccer star Kyle Martino. The divorce became final just a month and a half before Eva gave birth to the pair's third child together. Eva Amurri stars as a seductive schoolteacher in That's My Boy Last year, she got married once more to tech entrepreneur, Ian Hock. Her acting career began when she co-starred alongside her mother in The Banger Sisters in 2002. She then acted alongside her mother once more as a guest star in the sitcom Friends. Eva's last major role was when she appeared in the 2015 series, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. 5 She is the daughter of Susan Sarandon Credit: Getty 5 She was one of Hollywood's first nepo-babies Credit: AFP
The Sun
06-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Nepo baby with VERY famous Hollywood A-list mum launches new YouTube career – can you guess who she is?
A NEPO baby whose mum is an A-list Hollywood star is branching out to launch her very own YouTube career. The daughter of the movie superstar is keen to make a bigger name for herself but has admitted in a new interview she has made peace with being known thanks to her parents. 5 5 But can you work out who her very famous mother is? Eva Amurri initially followed in her mother's footsteps to be an actress but she has now shifted her focus to a YouTube show, Happily Eva After, following her house renovation plans in Westport, Connecticut. But Eva has always lived a life in front of the camera thanks to being the daughter of the legendary Susan Sarandon. Susan and director Franco Amurri welcomed Eva in 1985 and she has long faced backlash due to her nepo baby status when she tried to break into the acting world. Now a mother-of-three, Eva spends most of her time working as a content creator and an interior designer and has pulled her two passions together for her new series. In a new interview with People magazine, Eva confessed that she's aware people have always pre-judged her for being Susan's daughter but revealed she no longer feels the need to correct any of their assumptions. The nepo-baby told the publication: "People just have all different kind of perceptions of it. And to be honest, I'm like a 40-year-old mom, three kids, married for the second time. "I really have no interest in correcting them. So I just don't, you know what I mean? I don't really care." Eva's private life has been the subject of much discussion, including her highly publicised divorce from soccer star Kyle Martino. The divorce became final just a month and a half before Eva gave birth to the pair's third child together. Eva Amurri stars as a seductive schoolteacher in That's My Boy Last year, she got married once more to tech entrepreneur, Ian Hock. Her acting career began when she co-starred alongside her mother in The Banger Sisters in 2002. She then acted alongside her mother once more as a guest star in the sitcom Friends. Eva's last major role was when she appeared in the 2015 series, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. 5 5 5
Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eva Amurri on Being Susan Sarandon's Daughter + Why She Quit Acting (EXCL)
Eva Amurri may have started out following in the footsteps of her mom, Susan Sarandon, as an actress, but since 2015, she's been primarily devoted to her lifestyle blog, Happily Eva After, and has won over a loyal audience for her honest takes on home design, fashion, beauty, relationships and motherhood. In her latest project, Amurri is taking her passion for design to the next level as she documents her process of renovating a Connecticut home from the ground up in a new online series. With The Westport Project now streaming on YouTube, the multitalented actress-turned-influencer sat down with Woman's World to discuss her foray into home renovation, finding work-life balance as a busy mom of three and the ways her famous mom has inspired her. Eva Amurri: I've had my brand, Happily Eva After, for a decade now, which is wild. Through the process of creating this online world, I realized a lot of what I've been doing in terms of marketing could be applied to real estate, because there's so much competition and a lot of what sells homes is actually about lifestyle. My business partner, Chris O'Dell, is the contractor who renovated my last home for two years, so that's definitely a make-it-or-break-it experience. You either come out of that hating each other or loving each other. We found all these ways that our values aligned, and he always had this dream to build an innovative home in Westport, which is a beautiful beach town. We purchased this property that's a complete teardown, but it gave us the opportunity to create a spec home and test out a lot of things and bring our different areas of expertise together. It's been really freeing in a lot of ways, because designing your own home, you can almost get too caught up in it. Being in the entertainment industry for so long, I've been around the luxury price point and had experience with designers, but what I want to do is mix that elevated style with the practicality that families need, and I want to do that all under the umbrella of a net-zero wellness-focused home. I think that the family that moves in is going to be very lucky, and to be honest, I'm envious! Our web series has something for everyone. It's not just for home renovation buffs. There's a reality show component that's like Fixer Upper meets Southern Charm, and you can get to know us. You can see the building of the house, but you can also see the Westport lifestyle and me interacting with my family. EA: I was acting for 15 years, but I was very unfulfilled. I actually felt like the industry was slowly killing me. It's not an easy place to be a woman. When I had my daughter, I suddenly realized that it would be really disingenuous for me to tell her to find fulfillment and do what makes her happy and respect herself but then not be that example for her. I wanted to live those words of advice, so I knew something had to change. I had to make a list of things that I enjoyed to figure out what my next steps would be. My now ex-husband looked at the list and said it looked like a lifestyle blog. At the time, I wasn't an expert at anything online. I had no idea how to code or blog or anything like that. I had this new baby at home, and I'd always loved writing, entertaining, design, crafting and cooking. My ex was like, 'You already do all these things. Why don't you start writing them down?' So I did, and it was a wildly uphill journey. I'd be trying to use Photoshop and doing YouTube tutorials until 2 a.m. and then press one button and everything I'd been working on would disappear, so I'd be sobbing in front of my computer and then my daughter would wake up early in the morning. It was definitely not glamorous in the beginning. I kept sharing, and I was consistent with it, and then I started writing longform pieces on topics that were a bit more taboo at the time. When I started, it was still the world of perfect little squares on Instagram. I started talking a lot about the hard parts of parenting and marriage and being a woman and mom guilt and sex after giving birth. Then I had a miscarriage, and I wrote about it publicly. That was when I noticed that my voice in this space was unique, and I've stayed true to myself throughout these 10 years. After a couple years blogging, the monetization and brand growth came and I signed with an agency, and the influencer boom happened. All throughout that process, I kept thinking that I wanted to create something concrete, so from there, I had an in-house lifestyle line for a while, and I launched my couch collection with Benchmade Modern last year. I've been looking for a way to meld my past life as an actress and my current life as a creator into one, so it's been really fun to do that through my new show. EA: Anyone who says that work-life balance is possible is lying. It's not entirely possible. I recently heard a quote about how we have all these balls in the air all the time, but some of them are glass and some of them are plastic, so you need to identify which of those you can't drop, and which of those you can afford to drop. That really resonated with me. I try to be gentle with myself and know that it's not going to be perfect all the time. There will be some months that lean more towards work and some that lean away from that. I'm a perfectionist. I'm the oldest daughter of seven kids, so you can imagine how type-A I am. I'm working on letting go, because there's no perfect mother and there's no perfect family, and all of us are just doing the best we can. I think now that my kids are getting older they've internalized that a lot more as well, and I'm proud that they see me working and doing what I love while also being their mom. EA: I've gotten back into playing tennis regularly. I played as a teenager and let it go, but recently, I've been playing weekly with a group of women for an hour and a half. It's been so fun to have that social aspect, and I just turned 40, so I'm trying to be consistent with exercise. I'm very independent. Having a big family, my concern has been maintaining the alone time that recharges me. My husband is great about helping me find those pockets of time where I can get away for a walk or grab a coffee or go to the beach. I love reading and I almost never have time to read recreationally. Having an hour on a Saturday morning while my husband plays with the kids in the yard and I sit in bed with a cup of tea and my book is unreal. That's my idea of self-care. EA: A lot of the stereotypes around that exist for a reason, but there's a spectrum within the experience of living in the public eye. It can be quite humbling, and if you use it as an opportunity to keep great people close to you and see who your true friends are, it can be a way to grow and keep a safe community for yourself. In a lot of ways, I'm lucky to be doing this job now, because I'm so comfortable in front of the camera. If anything, being in the public eye has shown me, and is now showing my kids, that nobody really knows everything about you. People have the lens that they see you through, and there isn't much you can do to change that. It's all about knowing your truth and experience and knowing that people's perceptions of you will come and go, but nobody really has your number the way that they think you do. EA: She always showed me that it's possible to be a mom and do what you're passionate about and work outside of home. I feel fortunate that I was able to see my mom have this big career while also having such a close relationship with her kids, and I think that gave me the confidence to do that same thing. Obviously my mom and I are in very different businesses now, but having her as an example has really made me a lot less hard on myself, because I've seen another woman go through the trials and tribulations of being a busy working mom. One thing that I really admire about my childhood was that my mom would always make every single holiday and experience so special. She went all out and was always there, even if she was filming on nights and weekends. Our house was always the place where everything happened. It was so magical, and I cherish all those memories. I've recreated that with my own family. I love hosting, and a large part of my lifestyle brand was born out of that experience and the joy of gathering people and the beautiful memories that it creates. I come from a blended family, and now I have a blended family of my own. Having people come together in a mishmash modern family way was always happening when I was growing up, and now that's very much the case in my own family. Ever since my ex-husband and I split up, we've continued to spend holidays together with the kids, and now his girlfriend comes along, and my siblings from both sides with my mom and my dad come together to visit. I think it shows my kids that love is what makes a family, and that it's important to stay flexible. EA: I would tell myself to take more risks. I was always so worried about trying things that I didn't know I was going to be successful at. I wish that I had pushed myself outside of the box more. I was concerned about being financially independent from a young age, and then I became a mom before I was even 30, so everything suddenly felt much heavier and more important. I wish that I had left the acting industry sooner and had the courage to stop doing something that wasn't fulfilling me. When I was younger, I saw myself as needing to have a more stable world. Looking back from 40, I can see that I really didn't, and I wish that I had given myself the grace of making a few more mistakes. Read on for more exclusive celebrity interviews! Jenna Johnson Chmerkovskiy Reveals Mental Health Journey and Fitness Secrets (EXCLUSIVE) Queen Latifah on Happiness, Health and Rediscovering Life at 55: 'This Is Just the Beginning' (EXCLUSIVE) Carnie Wilson's Guilty Pleasures: 'My Favorite Thing is Getting That Bra off and in My Jammies' (EXCL)
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eva Amurri Builds the 'Smart Home' of Her 'Dreams' in Home Renovation Web Series 'The Westport Project' (Exclusive)
Eva Amurri is launching her new webseries The Westport Project, and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the latest teaser ahead of the premiere on June 26 The show follows Amurri and design-build expert Chris O'Dell as they construct a state-of-the-art smart home in Westport, Conn. The space will center around wellness, tech and a net-zero focus "I knew that I wanted our audiences to have a front row seat to the joy, humor, style and quality that this project would exemplify," the Happily Eva After content creator tells PEOPLEEva Amurri is taking her fans along for the journey as she embarks on a home-building project in an idyllic coastal Connecticut town. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the latest teaser for Amurri's new web series The Westport Project, which premieres on Thursday, June 26 at 12 p.m. ET. In the show, the lifestyle influencer — whose mother is Susan Sarandon — partners with Chris O'Dell of The O'Dell Group to construct a smart home living space with a net zero focus. "We knew homes today should be doing more for us, especially in a luxury price point," Amurri, 40, explained in the trailer. "This project is a labor of love, a true example of top-tier design, and all taking place in a town that has a pretty big personality of its own." Speaking to PEOPLE, the Happily Eva After creator shares her excitement about the "complex, fun and challenging undertaking" she'll be documenting online. "When partnering with Chris and his team ... on this design-build, I knew that I wanted our audiences to have a front row seat to the joy, humor, style and quality that this project would exemplify," she says. "Westport, Conn. is such a special town, and an incredible place to raise a family. I'm taking the job of making the perfect home for its next residents very seriously!" She adds that the first episode, as glimpsed in the sneak peek, captures the essence of the project, which sees them knocking down a house, excavating the site and building "the Smart Home of our dreams." "As the Creative Director of this project, I've already enjoyed lots of laughs and so many special moments with our crew so far, but what stands out the most is how much enthusiasm every single member of the team brings to the project," says Amurri. In addition to their sophisticated build and tech aspirations, the home will center around wellness, a natural fit for the location by the beach in the desirable local. The show will pull back the curtain on the construction process and the behind-the-scenes decisions that accompany such an ambitious project. "Chris says it best in our first episode: 'This will be a house of the 21st Century,'" she tells PEOPLE. "We look forward to releasing new episodes every two weeks until this house is finished!" Read the original article on People
