For much of her life, the star has pushed back against being defined solely by the two rock legends whose names made hers famous. Now, one quietly significant moment is giving people a fresh reason to look at the woman she has become, and the reactions reveal exactly what caught their attention.For someone who has spent much of her adult life deliberately outside the spotlight, Frances Bean Cobain knows how to make an entrance without saying very much at all. After years away from the red carpet, one recent evening had people looking twice.The daughter of late Nirvana Frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole Singer Courtney Love has lived with public curiosity surrounding her almost from birth. Yet Frances, now 34, has repeatedly made it clear that fame for fame’s sake was never something she particularly understood.Frances sometimes accompanied her musician parents to red-carpet events when she was still an infant. As she grew older, however, she forged a much more private path.

That relationship with fame was something she addressed candidly as far back as 2008. “I get it, I really do, but at the same time, it’s creepy,” Frances told Harper’s Bazaar. “It’s creepy to see fan sites about me.””These people are fascinated by me, but I haven’t done anything,” she continued. “I’m famous by default. I came out of the womb and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.””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. People need to wait until I’ve done something valid with my life.”