Frances Bean Cobain: 'I'm Not My Parents'

[Brian Damage]

Clay Aiken, move over. There's a new Broadway baby on the horizon.

Frances Bean Cobain, 15, the daughter of Courtney Love and late grunge legend Kurt Cobain, is headlining as the star of Evita, Grease and Beauty and the Beast – all for a fashion spread in the March issue of Harper's Bazaar.

Still, the backdrops are appropriate, says her mother. "Frances grew up on musicals. I think musicals comfort her," Love, 43, tells the magazine. "She's a gay man trapped in a woman's body, like me."

The beautiful brunette also has a head on her young shoulders, aware that most interest in her stems mainly from her lineage. "I get it, I really do," she says, "but at the same time it's creepy."

"These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything," she says. "If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents."

Without dismissing the accomplishments of her folks (her father was dead before she was 2), Cobain advises, "People need to wait until I've done something valid with my life."


Career Ambitions
As for what that will be – Broadway dreams and admiration for Dita Von Teese's style, notwithstanding – she's thought about photography and/or journalism (there may be a summer internship at Rolling Stone).

Even so, 'I'm taking my time," she says. "But I get asked what I want to do all the time because of my parents, because of the life I live."

And while she gets along with her mom, despite the occasional typical clash, Cobain sings praises of her paternal grandmother, who lives in Olympia, Washington. The teen calls her "the most constant thing I've ever had. I'm really lucky because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of, but she's probably the person I respect most out of anybody in the world."

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[Dean Winchester]

nice interview. Nice to see a child of a celebrity who doesn't feel like they're entitled simply because of who their dad was. Kimberly Stewart and Nicole Richie are two I can think of offhand. People loved your dads, not you. But Nicole at least has become likable the more she's been around.

[TJL]

It won't be long before we see her acting like an idiot in public.

I'm talking about Courtney, not her daughter.

[Ireneparalegal]

Frances Bean not being like her mother...Thank God.

[Brian Damage]

It really sounds like she has got a good head on her shoulders. I am sure she has had a tough childhood with her father committing suicide and her mom in and out of rehab.

[Janice]

Originally Posted by Brian Damage

It really sounds like she has got a good head on her shoulders. I am sure she has had a tough childhood with her father committing suicide and her mom in and out of rehab.

Frances appears to be a nice, humble person. Judging from this quote, it seems to me that her father's Mom had a hand in raising her, and was a great influence on her. I wonder how Courtney feels about that last sentence.


And while she gets along with her mom, despite the occasional typical clash, Cobain sings praises of her paternal grandmother, who lives in Olympia, Washington. The teen calls her "the most constant thing I've ever had. I'm really lucky because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of, but she's probably the person I respect most out of anybody in the world."

[coffield3]

She is beautiful, look's so much like her father its scary, considering being brought up by courtney she has turned out pretty awesome, well done courtney you got one thing right

[coffield3]

In her Daddy's clothes.

[Ireneparalegal]

Originally Posted by coffield3

She is beautiful, look's so much like her father its scary, considering being brought up by courtney she has turned out pretty awesome, well done courtney you got one thing right

She was raised more so by her grandmother, so she is the one who should be given credit for making Frances what she is today.

[coffield3]

Originally Posted by Ireneparalegal

She was raised more so by her grandmother, so she is the one who should be given credit for making Frances what she is today.

Yeah, i think it was pretty much 50/50, i'm glad she had her grandmother, i've never really been a fan of courtney because of the conspiracy theory's of Kurt's death, which is a differen't story.