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Where is the Nirvana baby now?
Spencer Elden
Famous For: His appearance on the cover of Nirvana's breakthrough 1991 LP, Nevermind
When Spencer Elden's parents agreed to let their friend, photographer Kirk Weddle, snap a
whole roll of film of their infant son swimming underwater in a crystal-clear swimming pool,
they couldn't have known that, eventually, more than 9 million people would own a picture of their naked son.
"Yeah, it's kind of creepy that that many people have seen me naked," Elden said. "I feel like
I'm the world's biggest porn star." While that might be a stretch, Elden has become something
of a celebrity because of his appearance on Nevermind, and often sits for radio and camera interviews
(he gets a fee for the latter) to discuss his life as the Nirvana baby. But otherwise, now-17-year-old
Spencer is like most teens. He's about to enter his junior year at Eagle Rock High School in Eagle
Rock, California, and works a typical high-school job at a local juice shop. He has aspirations of one
day becoming an airline pilot; he surfs, snowboards and loves playing water polo.
"It's kind of cool, knowing that I've been on an album cover, but I feel pretty normal about it because growing
up, I've always known I was the Nirvana baby," he said. "It never really struck me as like, 'Oh, sh-- — that's
me on the cover.' It's always just been whatever for me. At the time, my parents didn't know who Nirvana was.
No one really knew who they were. And then all of a sudden, it took off, and I just happened to be on the album cover."
Elden said he is a true Nirvana fan but has never met any of the bandmembers. He's had a platinum record
for Nevermind hanging in his bedroom since his first birthday. But Spencer hasn't seen any royalties from the
record's sales; his parents were paid just $200 for allowing him to be photographed.
"My dad went to art school over here in Pasadena, and while he was going there, he had a good friend named
Kirk, who was, at one time, a Navy Seal and an underwater-demolition expert," Elden, who is often asked to
sign copies of the album, explained. "And so, to go to art school, he gave up diving. One day, he and my mom
were sitting at the dinner table during a party, and my mom actually came up with the idea. He was saying how
he missed scuba diving, and she said, 'Why don't you just do underwater photography?' When he graduated, the
first gig he got was the Nirvana album, and he needed a baby. So they just threw me in the pool, snapped a whole
roll of film in like a second, and that's how it happened."
Of course, being the Nirvana baby has helped him with the ladies: "I have to use stupid pickup lines like, 'You want
to see my p---s ... again.' " But being on the album's cover has led to some strange encounters as well. He was
once invited to swim in a rather wealthy woman's pool for the mere fact that he was the Nirvana baby. Another time, he
even met "Weird Al" Yankovic, who famously lampooned the cover on his 1992 disc, Off the Deep End.
"I ran into him when I was going to do a TV interview," Elden said. "He was in the hallway, and he actually signed
the back of my platinum record."
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