Although Liv Tyler is widely known as the daughter of Aerosmith’s frontman, Steven Tyler, she is the product of the women who raised her: her mother, her grandmother, and her aunt. Her mother, Bebe Buell, a ’70s Playboy Playmate and famed groupie, had an eight-month tryst with the rocker that resulted in an unexpected pregnancy (per Hello!). Bebe was a struggling musician in New York City at the time and needed help raising her daughter. So, when Liv was 4 months old, she moved to the quaint countryside of Portland, Maine, to be near “Aunt Annie,” as Liv calls her (per Vanity Fair).
While her mother was off touring with her band, Liv would stay with her grandmother in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., accompanying her to board meetings and ritzy garden parties. Where Liv’s mother was the fiery, passionate artist and her aunt the source of stability, her grandmother, a professional etiquette instructor, was the doyenne of sophistication. When Liv was 12, she and her mother moved back to Manhattan, where her modeling career would soon take off (per Interview Magazine). “My mother, grandmother, and my aunt all mothered me,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in a 2012 interview. “So sometimes when we’re all together now, they try to be the parent, and I have to say, ‘Back.'”
