Celebrities Who Babysat for Other Celebrities

Celebrity babysitters' club! A-listers including Jennifer Garner, Selena Gomez and Michael Bolton all earned some extra spending money by watching stars' kids (or the stars themselves!)

Celebrity babysitters' club! A-listers including Jennifer Garner, Selena Gomez and Michael Bolton all earned some extra spending money by watching stars' kids (or the stars themselves!) See which celebrities were babysitters or nannies for future famous people — and find out what their charges were like.

Jennifer Garner

While she didn't technically look after a future celeb, Garner did babysit for an already established star: Stephen Colbert. After meeting Garner on the set of Spin City in 1996, the late-night talk show host shared he and his wife were looking for someone to help with their daughter; Garner agreed to take on the role in between auditions.

"She was such a peanut," she recalled of Colbert's daughter during an appearance on the host's show. "She was really smart. She was very verbal and she was precocious and adorable. And I remember the two of us, like, going into your drawers and trying on your clothes."

On an episode of the Strike Force Five podcast in 2023, Colbert reminisced about finding out his family's former sitter had made it big when he saw her in her Alias catsuit on a building-high billboard. He bought a copy of TV Guide to show his wife, who, he recalled, gasped and said "Oh, Jen! But she wasn't hot!"

"Yes she was," he responded.

"But you never said anything!" she said.

"What would you expect me to say?" he joked. " 'Have you noticed how incredibly hot the babysitter is?' "

Selena Gomez

In July 2022, Jessica Simpson appeared in an Instagram Live with American Express Business where she revealed that daughter Maxwell Drew had a very cool first babysitter.

"I was sad when Maxwell got to go to her first concert ... Olivia Rodrigo she went to," Simpson said, sharing that her chaperone was someone pretty well known.

"Selena Gomez was her babysitter ... She met a really good friend of Selena's little sister, so Max got to go to her first concert," she shared.

Though Simpson said she had hoped Maxwell's first show might be one that Simpson herself performed, she knew the invitation was too good to turn down: "But she's 10 years old, she's got to see a live show. So thank you Olivia Rodrigo for that show. And thank you Selena for being a great babysitter."

Alexis Haines

While growing up in the Los Angeles suburb of Oak Park, Doja Cat and her brother were often looked after by family friend Haines — of Pretty Wild and, eventually, Bling Ring fame. In fact, the singer/rapper would use their time together to post her music on Haines' MySpace page.

"We were a little bit more of the latchkey kids," Haines said in a December 2021 Rolling Stone profile of Doja Cat. "We had these hippie moms and were given probably more freedom than kids should have been."

Tia & Tamera Mowry

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's parents enlisted another famous pair of twin sisters during the Olsens' turn on Full House: Tia and Tamera Mowry of Sister, Sister fame, Tia revealed on The Meredith Vieira Show.

"My brother, he played Teddy [on Full House], and so we would always go and visit the set," Tia said. "We would actually babysit the Olsen twins ... The producers that would hang around on the set, they're like, 'These girls, they're so adorable.' We even did a guest spot on Full House. It's kind of like where we got our first start."

Katie Lowes

While Lowes' stint as Connie Britton's son Eyob's babysitter was short-lived (she ended up landing her role in Scandal!), the former Nashville star continues to hold the actress in high regard.

"I wanted her to be my nanny so badly and my assistant," Britton revealed to Page Six. "She's just such a phenomenal human and I remember having those conversations. She was helping me with my son, who was then just a baby, and then she said, 'I got cast in this show called Scandal.' "

Bethenny Frankel

Long before launching her Skinnygirl empire, Frankel served as Kathy Hilton's personal assistant, which called for the Real Housewives of New York star to look after Hilton's kids, including Paris and Nicky.

Cher

In his memoir, Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis shared that his extremely famous babysitter, Cher, was part of a memorable experience in his teenage years.

"I was in bed and Cher got up to go to the bathroom and get ready for bed. I watched her take off her clothes," Kiedis wrote, noting he was 13 years old when the legendary performer babysat him. "There was a woman's naked body. I remember thinking, 'This is not bad, lying next to this beautiful lady.' " (He also talked about it on his band's 2016 Carpool Karaoke stint.)

Kiefer Sutherland

Before Sutherland became Jack Bauer, the actor was spending some time looking after a preteen Gwyneth Paltrow. "I was working in a theater with her mother in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and I believe on a couple of occasions I was asked to look after her for an hour or two," he said in a 2009 interview. "I think it was very funny because it's unbelievable how fast someone goes from 13 to 18, and obviously they look so different that when Gwyneth started to work, I thought, 'Well, that must be another girl because I always remember her as being 11 or 12 years old.' "

Chloë Sevigny

While living in Darien, Connecticut, Sevigny reportedly looked after Topher Grace. "She was the cool babysitter," the That '70s Show actor revealed. "I had such a crush on her."

Michael Bolton

Fun fact: Bolton would sing a 7-year-old Paula Abdul to sleep back when the singer served as the American Idol alum's babysitter. Years later, Bolton would ask Abdul to choreograph his tour — which she did. As for how Bolton was as the singer-dancer's babysitter? Abdul told Jimmy Kimmel: "He'd never want to help me with my homework. He would only just want to jam with the rest of the musicians in the building that I lived in."

D'Arcy Carden

Before starring alongside Hader on Barry, Carden looked after his two oldest daughters Hannah and Harper (he shares them, along with daughter Hayley, with his ex-wife, director Maggie Carey), starting sometime around 2012.

"I was his nanny for their oldest two daughters — that was my full time job. I was with them every day, and I still am very close with them," Carden told host Seth Meyers on an episode of Late Night in 2018. "The oldest one in particular I hung out with every day, we were like best friends … we would just talk like friends would talk, I think she maybe took after me too much," she joked.

Alice Cooper

Working with Keanu Reeves' mother — a costume designer — at the height of his fame, Cooper was occasionally asked to look after the future actor and his friend. And having the rock star as a babysitter is exactly as you'd imagine it to be: "I remember once, Keanu and I trying to take on Alice Cooper," Reeves's childhood friend, Evan Williams, told PEOPLE. "He tied us up like a human knot."

Zac Posen

Lena Dunham was one lucky kid! Not only did the Girls creator grow up with artistic parents, but the native New Yorker was also treated to free makeovers, courtesy of Posen, who was her babysitter at the time. "You were the best babysitter," Dunham tweeted. "You did my hair 'like a newscaster' and made me a frayed leather skirt."

Tamala Jones

Actress Tamala Jones recalled on the Tamron Hall Show that in the early days of her career, she wanted to take acting lessons, and was referred to an acting school and management company run by Blake Lively's parents, Elaine and Ernie. But because money was tight, they allowed her to pay for the classes by babysitting their daughter Blake.

"I would get Blake and babysit her, and sometimes my mom would bake for them, all so I could go to this school," she said. "If it weren't for Blake Lively's parents, I probably wouldn't be here today."

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