Stella McCartney reveals she felt 'angry' over her Beatles legend father's fame as a teenager as she reflects on the 'privileges' of growing up in the spotlight

Published: 06:10 EDT, 3 November 2026 | Updated: 06:17 EDT, 3 November 2026 Touring with a pop superstar would have been a dream for most teenagers, but not so for Sir Paul McCartney's daughter Stella.The fashion designer, 55, has revealed she felt 'angry' over her Beatles legend father's fame as a teenager as she reflected on the 'privileges' of growing up in the spotlight. She explained: 'I was kind of angry when I was 18 because I was building friendships and getting into the swing of my own thing.''I was like: "What, really? We have to go on a world tour?"' Stella, whose mother Linda died in 1998, recalls the contrast between the family's quiet farm life in Scotland and her parents' extraordinary fame.'Mum was cooking, dad was shearing sheep and writing songs,' she says. Stella McCartney has revealed she felt 'angry' over her Beatles legend father's fame as a teenager as she reflected on the 'privileges' of growing up in the spotlight (pictured in March)'And then we were on tour with, like, 200,000 people screaming at your parents... it was trippy and weird and surreal.'She now insists, however, that travelling the world was 'one of the biggest privileges' of her upbringing, adding: 'Everything that my mum and dad did came from a place of love.'Stella previously opened up on how she worries about her children being brought up surrounded by 'crazy famous people'.But she concluded that as she turned out 'okay-ish' despite the people she mixed with while on tour with her Beatle father, she hopes her children will too.Speaking 10 years ago she told Porter magazine: 'I lived on a farm, but I went on tour and I knew crazy famous people, like crazy.'And for my children, it's not dissimilar, they go to the farm and they're in the field getting muddy and falling over, and then they come here and they're surrounded by crazy famous people.'I worry about that. But I think I turned out okay-ish, and I hope that they will be okay.'She explained: 'I was kind of angry when I was 18 because I was building friendships and getting into the swing of my own thing' (pictured aged two in 1973 with her parents)The mother-of-four also talked about the 'great relationship' her children have with their 'GrandDude' Sir Paul.'I love seeing them with Grandpa, or GrandDude, as they call him, they're really proud of him and they get excited by it (Sir Paul McCartney's music). They have a great relationship with him,' she said.She added: 'I did have quite a different upbringing to a lot of my peers.''We all have a sort of code that we get, especially as Beatles kids. It's an unspoken sort of word of understanding. But I'm comfortable around a lot of different types of people.'