Photographer Weddle shot 18 frames and Spencer’s parents were paid $200.

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You hold him up really close to your face.

On the Nevermind cover, baby Elden is naked and swimming toward a dollar bill that was digitally added in. DecemNirvana in 1991 Paul Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images Nirvana ’s legal team has finally responded to the lawsuit filed by the Nevermind baby this past summer, writing in a response. Im just asking the band to do what they should have done 30 years ago and redact my genitals. “You blow in the kid's face and it creates a gag reflex. Spencer Elden has voiced mixed feelings about the Nirvana album cover over the years. 'Nirvana exploited me when I was a baby to sell their music, but there is a person behind every image. Spencer’s dad Richard was actually a lifeguard, so he knew what he was doing: “There's tricks to it,” he told CNN in 2008. I was just born so they went down to the local pool and threw me in the drink.” Spencer Elden was just four months old when he featured on Nirvnana's Nevermind cover.Įlden told Buzzfeed in 2011: “He called up my dad saying, ‘They’re paying me to take this picture of a baby underwater and I don’t have a baby’.

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