Nepo Baby, 21, Looks Just Like '90s TV Star Mom While Cuddling Lion in Africa

A nepo baby looked the spitting image of her 90s TV star mother as she cuddled a lion in Africa.

The conservationist and model, 21, recently took to her Instagram to share a video of herself cuddling two lions before releasing them into the wild with her father.

Resting her head on one lion, she penned: ‘My beautiful ZEMO on the day we released him in Africa. I can’t wait to see him soon.’

The 21-year-old has followed in both of her famous parents’ footsteps as she dropped out of school to pursue her interests in both the entertainment and conservation industries.

She now boasts 1.5 million followers on Instagram and regularly gives fans an insight into her daily life surrounded by animals.

But can you guess who the nepo baby and her famous parents are?

A nepo baby looked the spitting image of her 90s TV star mother as she cuddled a lion in Africa

The conservationist and model, 21, boasts 1.5 million followers on Instagram and regularly gives fans an insight into her daily life surrounded by animals – but can you guess who the nepo baby and her famous parents are?

That’s right! It’s Freya Aspinall, the daughter of English actress Donna Air and businessman Damian Aspinall.

Donna was just 21 when she met and fell in love with multimillionaire Damian, who was 40 at the time.

They were introduced at a dinner party in 2000 by mutual friend, former It Girl Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, and went on to have a seven-year relationship, before they split in July 2007.

Damian owns The Aspinall Foundation, which partners with Howletts Wild Animal Park, founded by his father John Aspinall.

The Aspinall Foundation is a British charity founded in 1984 that strives to promote wildlife conservation and return captive animals back to the wild, while also running projects abroad to protect endangered species.

It runs both Howletts and Port Lympne Park, which is set on 600 acres and houses many rare and endangered species, with the largest breeding herd of black rhinos in the UK.

Freya has inherited her father’s love of conservation and dedicates her time to caring for various animals in the sanctuary and is being lined up to one day inherit his position as chair of the Aspinall Foundation.

She has also inherited her mother’s good looks as she became the youngest model on the books of Storm, the agency discovered by Kate Moss, in 2018.

That’s right! It’s Freya Aspinall, the daughter of English actress Donna Air and businessman Damian Aspinall (pictured 2013)

But rather than spend most of her time on the runway, she spends her days in the park caring for orphaned lion cubs and gorillas.

The influencer uses her Instagram to promote the importance of conversation work, sharing heartwarming videos of her cuddling with big cats and feeding gorillas by hand in their enclosures, raking in an impressive 1.5million followers.

Freya has shown she’s not a typical ‘nepo baby’, with it being reported that when she signed her modelling contract she insisted she would use her profile to promote conservation issues.

Calling herself a ‘mini version’ of dad Damian, she has said if she ever books a magazine cover it will be as a conservationist rather than a model.

Speaking to the Financial Times, she admitted: ‘I grew up with animals and couldn’t imagine my world without them. This is in my blood – I’ve always known what I wanted to do.’

And it’s no wonder she shares such a close bond with animals, after being placed in in a gorilla enclosure at Howletts as a baby to be carried off by the female of the group.

It was a ritual Damian had carried out with his first two daughters, Tansy and Clary, from his 15-year marriage to Louise Sebag-Montefiore.

Describing his plans for Freya at the time, he told London’s Evening Standard: ‘It’s a ritual. I’ll probably give her to the dominant female who will take her off, sex her, and introduce her to the others. I did this with my other daughters, now it’s Freya’s turn.’

Donna was just 21 when she met and fell in love with multimillionaire Damian, who was 40 at the time (pictured 2006)

Damian owns The Aspinall Foundation, which partners with Howletts Wild Animal Park, founded by his father John Aspinall (pictured with his ex wife Victoria in 2020)

While Donna fully approved of the plan because she did not believe that Freya would be in any danger.

Damian added: ‘Why would I not trust them? I know them, I grew up with them. They are my friends.’

And Freya is certainly not afraid of getting up and close to exotic animals at the family wildlife park.

She has described Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent where she loves to feed the giraffes as one of her ‘favourite places to be’.

She’s often seen cuddling and feeding treats to a pair of gorillas, Silverback Kifu and Tambabi, that she has known since birth.