Eva Jinek thinks you could say that Noa Vahle, Linda de Mol’s daughter, is ‘the ultimate Dutch fake baby’. “What nepobaby is about is that they are coveted places.”
Now that equality of opportunity is an increasingly important theme, people in the United States are wondering how fair the success of so-called ‘fake babies’ really is. Fake babies are children of successful people who, thanks to their background or surname, also end up in important positions. It mainly focuses on celebrities.
Nepo Noa
The discussion about fake babies has now also crossed over to our country. Both Shownieuws and AD paid attention to it; in the first medium of course without mentioning the name of Noa Vahle. The AD did. After all, Noa, the daughter of Linda de Mol, is the most talked about fake baby at the moment.
Eva Jinek also decided to mention her name last night during an item about fake babies. “In this context, Noa Vahle is also mentioned, the daughter of Linda de Mol and Sander Vahle. So she is a sports reporter at SBS, her uncle’s company. You could say, and people say that: the ultimate Dutch fake baby.”
Lecture room
It is significant that Antoinnette Scheulderman, Linda de Mol’s confidant, is sitting at the table to discuss this. “Well, Noa is lucky that she is called Vahle from her last name, after her father. It’s funny. I spoke to her last year for the LINDA. (starts to laugh, ed.) a platform of her mother.”
She defends Noa. “She does something completely different from her mother, because she doesn’t come down the show stairs, she does sports, she does live TV. Coincidentally, I’ve known her since she was young. She’s a super sports freak, she knows all about it. She also said in that interview: ‘Of course I got my first job in the sports editorial from my family.’”
coveted places
Linda is in front of the camera and Noa is now too. Well, very different indeed. Eva: “That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it? The chance to get in.”
Antoinette: “Yes, but after that you have to be able to do it.”
A kularargument in this discussion. Eva: “It is, but what nepobaby is about is that they are coveted places, difficult to get into, closed bastions and if you have a parent who is in there, it is a completely different world.”
Very good
That fake babies can also be talented is the biggest non-argument in this discussion. Antoinnette, however, uses it eagerly: “The example of Noa Vahle: she was doing a live conversation like this every time during the World Cup in Qatar and she did it fantastic. It didn’t matter who her family is, she just did really well.”
Very handy that the De Mol family has sent another footman to the front, but the discussion is of course not about whether Noa is talented or not. It’s about fake babies like her having an edge over equally talented or perhaps more talented people, purely because of her background and last name.
According to a professor at the UvA, where Noa studied for the form, that is a ‘extremely big problem‘.
Johnny and Noa celebrate the inequality of opportunity:
