Celebrity Parents Who Homeschool Their Kids

The best-known Celebrity Parents Who Homeschool Their Kids are Kim Kardashian, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Angelina Jolie, Mayim Bialik and Erykah Badu. Each has said on the record that their children were taught at home for some or all of their schooling. Kardashian is the most recent. She said on January 21, 2026, that her daughter North West, 12, is homeschooled.

Some famous names turn up on lists like this one without belonging on them. Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard taught at home only during the 2020 lockdown. Kourtney Kardashian has praised the idea without saying her children are enrolled that way. This page keeps those groups apart, as of November 15, 2026.

Celebrity Parents Who Homeschool Their Kids at a Glance

“Past years” means the statement describes that period. It does not tell you how the children are schooled today, and several of them are now adults.

Kim Kardashian and North West

Kardashian spoke about it on her sister’s podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land, on January 21, 2026. “She is homeschooled, and a lot of it is me helping her do a lot of the teachings,” she said of North, who was 12, as Us Weekly and People reported.

The lessons are built around North’s interests. Kardashian described a brand-building class that grew out of North’s idea of making hats and jewelry, math taught through budgets, and full fashion courses. North goes to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and to fashion camp in the summers, and at home she does eight-hour music studio sessions.

“It’s a full-time job, even for me and her teacher,” Kardashian said. She added, “I took the last six months off to be able to really do that and do her courses.”

It applies to North only, as far as anyone has reported. BuzzFeed noted that her other children appear to still attend a regular school. See Kim Kardashian kids school and lifestyle for more on the family.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

The Smiths taught Jaden and Willow at home. The sources disagree on when it began. Business Insider says 2001, and SheKnows says around 2003.

Jada Pinkett Smith gave her reasons to Essence in 2005. “The school system in this country, public and private, is designed for the industrial age. We’re in a technological age,” she said. “We don’t want our kids to memorize. We want them to learn.”

Will Smith put it more bluntly in a 2006 Reader’s Digest interview. “Jada and I homeschool our children, because the date of the Boston Tea Party does not matter,” he said.

Angelina Jolie

Jolie said in 2011 that she preferred tutors to conventional schools for her six children, who were then between 2 and 9. They followed the French Lycée programme, taught by nannies and specialist teachers, in cities including New York, Prague and Venice, The Independent reported on June 3, 2011.

“I do think we live in a different age and the education system hasn’t caught up with our children and our way of life,” she said. She added that she would rather they “go to a museum and learn to play guitar and read and pick a book they love.”

Mayim Bialik and Erykah Badu

Bialik said in 2012, “We are a happily holistic homeschooling family.” She described the family as unschoolers. Her sons were 6 and 3 at the time, ABC News reported in March 2012.

Badu taught her son Seven at home through kindergarten and first grade, she told People in 2009.

Parents Who Only Did It During Lockdown

Schools closed across the United States in 2020, and almost every parent became a teacher for a while. That is a different thing from choosing to homeschool.

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are the usual example. They taught their two daughters at home that year, People and TODAY reported. Shepard told PureWow, “I was terrible at it.”

Talk Is Not the Same as Enrollment

Kourtney Kardashian questioned traditional school in May 2025. She asked why children go to school at all and called the system “so dated,” People reported on May 21, 2025. She said her children send her videos of successful people whose kids never went to school, and her reaction is, “You want to do homeschool? Let’s do it!”

Khloé Kardashian agreed. “Oh, I’m such a homeschool person,” she said.

Neither statement confirms that their children are homeschooled, and we found no report that says so. The wider family picture is in Kardashian family kids education choices.

What These Families Have in Common

The reasons fall into three groups in the parents’ own words.

• Travel and work. Jolie’s children studied with tutors while their parents filmed around the world, and Jada Pinkett Smith also cited the family’s travel schedule.
• Doubts about traditional school. The Smiths and Jolie both said the system had not kept up with how children live now.
• A child’s own interests. Kardashian built North’s lessons around fashion, music and business.

All of them had the money for private teachers, which most families do not. For another parenting choice that divides famous families, see celebrity parents banning phones for kids.

Sources

• People, Kim Kardashian says daughter North, 12, is homeschooled, January 2026
• Us Weekly, Kim Kardashian reveals North is homeschooled, January 2026
• BuzzFeed, January 23, 2026, and Complex, January 22, 2026, on the same podcast episode
• Business Insider, celebrities who have chosen to homeschool their kids, March 2020
• The Independent, on Angelina Jolie, June 3, 2011
• People, on Kourtney Kardashian, May 21, 2025
• Essence, 2005, as quoted by Business Insider. Reader’s Digest, 2006, as quoted by SheKnows
• ABC News, March 2012, on Mayim Bialik. People, 2009, on Erykah Badu. People, TODAY and PureWow, 2020, on Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard