Stella McCartney on Madonna's daughter Lourdes, growing up famous and why she's 'limited' with her crying
As the daughter of a Beatle, Stella McCartney grew up around “crazy famous people”. Now her own children are doing the same - and the designer says she is worried about how it will affect them.
But McCartney, daughter of Sir Paul and his first wife, the late photographer Linda, told PORTER magazine that she turned out “okay-ish” - despite her unconventional childhood.
The fashion designer, 44, has four children with her husband, Hunter creative director Alasdhair Willis - girls Bailey, 9, and Reiley, 5, and boys Miller, 11, and Beckett, 8. She said: “I lived on a farm, but I went on tour and I knew crazy famous people, like crazy. And for my children, it’s not dissimilar, they go to the farm and they’re in the field getting muddy and falling over, and then they come here and they’re surrounded by crazy famous people. I worry about that. But I think I turned out okay-ish, and I hope that they will be okay.”
Some of McCartney’s famous friends, including actress Selma Blair, composer Quincy Jones and socialite Nicole Richie, feature alongside her in the PORTER photoshoot.
On having well-known friends, the designer said: “I did have quite a different upbringing to a lot of my peers. We all have a sort of code that we get, especially as Beatles kids, we’re kind of ... it’s an unspoken sort of word of understanding, you know?
By: Lizzie Edmonds
Source: Evening Standard
