RFK Jr Has 6 Kids Who Grew Up To Be Stunning
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn't the only member of his family who's still making headlines. He also has six children who have grown up to be stunning and fascinating individuals.
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00:00Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn't the only member of his family who is still making headlines.
00:05He also has six children who have grown up to be stunning — and fascinating — individuals.
00:11Born in 1994, Connor Kennedy has mostly kept a low profile over the years,
00:15but he did have one short-lived romance that was anything but under the radar.
00:20As reported by Us Weekly back in 2011, Taylor Swift became infatuated with the Kennedy family
00:26after watching the miniseries about them that aired that year. The pop star then began doing
00:30extensive research on Kennedy history. Word about Swift's interest made its way to Rory Kennedy,
00:35a documentary filmmaker and youngest sister of RFK Jr. Rory then reached out to see if she could
00:41get her hands on some concert tickets. And she and Swift became quick friends, with Rory even
00:46inviting the singer to spend the Fourth of July at the Kennedy Compound, which is where she met
00:50Connor. By July 2012, Swift and Connor were photographed together in Hyannisport, Massachusetts.
00:56They were frequently spotted in town throughout the rest of that month and even showed off some
01:00public displays of affection. According to Us Weekly, they were officially dating by August,
01:05after which Swift purchased a home near the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport.
01:09Ultimately, though, Swift and Connor's romance fizzled out by the fall.
01:13But there seems to be at least one song that was inspired by their time together,
01:17as many fans believe that Swift's Begin Again, off her 2012 album Red,
01:22is about moving on with Connor in the wake of her split from Jake Gyllenhaal.
01:26I don't talk about my personal life in that great detail. I write about it all in my songs."
01:32In 2013, Connor Kennedy was arrested during a protest outside of the White House in opposition
01:37to the Keystone Pipeline. He was joined on the front lines by his father, as well as actor
01:42Daryl Hanna, and other environmental activists. The protest was reportedly organized as an effort
01:48to make others aware that the pipeline could increase carbon pollution and greenhouse gas
01:52emissions by leading to growth in the tar sands industry in Canada. Connor and his father were
01:57arrested together and driven to a police station in handcuffs. They then paid a fine and were free
02:03to go. Connor's efforts to make the world a better place continued in 2022, when he revealed that he
02:08had fought in Ukraine's International Legion. As he explained on Instagram,
02:13"...like many people, I was deeply moved by what I saw happening in Ukraine over the past year.
02:18I wanted to help. When I heard about Ukraine's International Legion, I knew I was going,
02:23and I went to the embassy to enlist the next day."
02:26While Connor didn't have any previous military experience when he enlisted,
02:30he believed that his physical strength and fearlessness would be significant assets.
02:35Born in 1984, Robert F. Bobby Kennedy III has generally stayed out of the limelight for most
02:41of his life. However, he did make headlines in 2018 when it was announced that he was set to
02:46marry former CIA spy Amaryllis Fox. A friend of the couple told Page Six,
02:51"...they met in the desert through mutual friends four years ago.
02:55They share a commitment to social justice."
02:57Meanwhile, Bobby's father gushed to Town & Country about how he and everyone in the
03:01family adored Fox. In January 2019, Fox and Bobby welcomed their first child,
03:07a daughter also named Bobby. As the newborn's mom wrote on Instagram,
03:11"...baby Bobby arrived safe and snug on January 7th at 6.27 p.m. She's named for her father,
03:18grandfather, and great-grandfather, carrying their legacy into a future where women stand
03:23shoulder to shoulder with their fathers, brothers, and sons to do the work of love in the world.
03:28May she hold in her heart their fathomless commitment to human dignity,
03:32peace among nations, and protection of our natural world."
03:36In 2021, Fox gave birth to the couple's second child, a son named Cassius Watts Thoreau.
03:42As Fox noted on Instagram, he was named after boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
03:47"...I'm gonna show you how great I am."
03:50Before he got married, Bobby Kennedy III wore a number of different hats,
03:54which included graduating from Brown University and working briefly in politics.
03:58He eventually pivoted to the arts, as he wrote and starred in a film that took place in Italy.
04:03He then tried his hand at writing a stage musical with a one-act comedy about rock-jazz pianist
04:08Eric Lewis that debuted in 2011. Interestingly enough, the musical featured puppets,
04:13and as Bobby explained to HuffPost,
04:15"...it's a story about immortals, people that attain immortality through going through
04:20various universes and defeating your alternate selves. It's kind of hard to pin it down."
04:25Bobby also felt that this was the perfect time to explain why he had
04:28no interest in following his family's political footsteps. As he revealed,
04:32"...people that, I feel at least, get into politics too early before they've had a
04:36chance to express themselves and kind of be free and do what they want to do,
04:40end up being the most corrupt politicians. I don't really care for American politics,
04:45as they're currently playing out. Campaign finance is basically legalized bribery."
04:50"'It's like thanks, but no thanks.'"
04:52Aidan Cuevan Vieques Kennedy is definitely one of the more private members of his family.
04:58But we do know that he's the youngest child to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his late ex-wife,
05:02Mary Richardson. Aidan was born in 2001 while his father was incarcerated in Vieques Island,
05:07Puerto Rico, for trespassing and protesting against bombing by the United States Navy.
05:12After Aidan was born, his mother told the Tampa Bay Times,
05:16"...I think that when he is older, the child will understand why he has the name of Vieques
05:20and how important it is. And he'll be proud to be a part of that history."
05:24RFK Jr. reflected upon missing his son's birthday in an essay for Outside magazine. As he revealed,
05:31"...my wife said she thought I was a hero. But if she could see me,
05:34she'd peg me as a slacker. She's the only real hero in this,
05:38having cared for our five children and produced our sixth in my absence."
05:42The younger of RFK Jr.'s two daughters, Keira Kennedy, was born in 1995.
05:47After her mother, Mary Richardson, died in 2012, she was reportedly so overcome by grief
05:52that her father sent her off to live with the woman who would become her stepmother,
05:56Cheryl Hines. As a source divulged to Radar,
06:00"...Keira took the news of her mother's death very, very hard. She started going off the rails a bit,
06:04and the family was concerned over what she would do, how it would all play out."
06:08The last thing the Kennedys wanted was another embarrassing scandal,
06:12so Robert decided the best move was to pack her off to live with Cheryl in L.A.,
06:16away from her friends and any bad influences. Despite this firm decision, Keira continued
06:22to make controversial headlines in the years to come. For example, Page Six reported in 2015
06:27that after she was denied entry to a club in New York for being underage and using a fake ID,
06:33she lashed out at security by screaming,
06:35"...I am a Kennedy. Google me. If you don't let me in, the governor will be calling."
06:40After that dust-up, Keira and her friends took to Instagram to share photos of themselves partying.
06:46While Keira Kennedy has enjoyed using social media to show off her partying lifestyle,
06:50she may have gone a little too far with it on one particular occasion.
06:54It all went down when Allie Jones of The Cut wrote a short blog post about Keira and her
06:59friends in response to a 2016 New York Times article called,
07:02"...move over, rat pack and brat pack. Here comes the snap pack."
07:07Alas, Keira was not exactly a fan of this coverage. In a since-deleted series of comments
07:12left on Jones' Instagram, Keira wrote things like,
07:14"...I can play games too b---- and clearly taking your insecurities out on others."
07:19Then Jones published another essay called,
07:21"...I'm being cyberbullied on Instagram by a Kennedy."
07:24When Keira's father found what she was up to, he didn't take it lightly.
07:28As a rep for RFK Jr. told Page Six,
07:31Mr. Kennedy has spoken to Keira and informed his daughter that their family does not
07:36bully people. He has instructed her to shut down all of her social media accounts immediately.
07:41Keira was ultimately banned for more than three years before she was finally allowed
07:45to begin posting again in 2019. She started off with some simple family photos and selfies,
07:50but by 2023, she was posting about how she was attending events for big-name designers
07:56like Louis Vuitton and Giorgio Armani.
07:58Born in 1988, Kathleen Kick Alexandra Kennedy is the older of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s two daughters.
08:06She graduated from Stanford with a degree in history and pursued theater after college.
08:11She shares her father's passion for activism, particularly when it comes to clean water.
08:15In 2010, she hiked Mount Kilimanjaro with fellow activists Emile Hirsch
08:20and Jessica Biel in an effort to bring awareness to water shortage.
08:23As she told Town & Country in 2012,
08:25I like to say life is just a collection of experiences, some good, some bad,
08:30and the more you have the better. Saying yes has just kind of worked for me so far."
08:35In addition to her activism, Kick has a deep passion for acting,
08:39as she's appeared on TV shows like The Newsroom and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
08:43It's not fair. It's not a chat and cut.
08:45Kick also worked alongside her brother Bobby for his 2021 film Fear and Loathing in Aspen.
08:50While fame often comes with acting, that's not what Kick is after.
08:54As she told Town & Country,
08:56I see all my actor friends really going for it in that way,
08:59because it's such a big part of the job. But it kind of turns me off. I'm frightened of it.
09:04Or at least uninterested. Unamused.
09:07In April 2018, Kick Kennedy's boyfriend, billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon,
09:12died of a heart attack before he was set to check into a rehab facility in Cancun, Mexico.
09:17Kick and Mellon had been dating for about four months at the time of his passing.
09:21Her manager, Christine Schott, told People magazine,
09:24She is heartbroken. Shocked. She didn't see this coming.
09:27She is devastated and will not be making comment."
09:30Schott also revealed,
09:32He was sober, and they were enjoying life. Then all of a sudden, he apparently fell off the wagon.
09:37In the wake of Mellon's death, Kick shared a tribute to him on Instagram.
09:40Alongside a black-and-white video of the two of them dancing and smiling, she wrote,
09:45Most who knew Matthew knew he had an incredible way of manifesting
09:49wildly unpredictable miracles that shocked and awed us all, over and over again. Simply,
09:55he was magical. She also made sure to note that he loved his three children. As she wrote,
10:00They will inherit his charm, his wisdom, and a spectacularly bizarre wardrobe.
10:06William Finbar Finn Kennedy is another one of RFK Jr.'s kids who generally steers clear of
10:12the public eye. His middle name comes from St. Finbar, a 6th-century bishop and abbot of a
10:18monastery in County Wexford, Ireland, the ancestral homestead of the Kennedys.
10:23What we know about Finn mainly comes from his accomplishments listed on his since-deleted
10:27LinkedIn account. He received his bachelor's degree with high honors from Brown University,
10:32where he studied history. In 2017, he completed an internship at Morgan Stanley,
10:37and then went on to complete an apprenticeship in 2018 at lending company Bailey Capital,
10:42where he was later hired as an analyst. And that's about all the publicly available
10:46information about Finn. While he's rarely photographed out and about,
10:50he does sometimes pop up on his siblings' Instagrams.