United Kingdom, May 13 -- Mia Threapleton has hit out at the "misconception" she's a 'nepo baby'.

The 24-year-old star - whose first major acting role came alongside her mother Kate Winslet in 'I Am Ruth' - has insisted despite being the daughter of Kate and filmmaker Jim Threapleton, she didn't spend her childhood growing up on movie sets.

She's quoted by the Daily Mail newspaper's Eden Confidential column as saying: "I feel like it's a misconception about me, considering who my mother is, that I grew up going to set or that I would know anything about this world because of her and what she does.

"That is not the case at all. I genuinely can count on not even two hands the amount of times I went to set as a kid.

"There were never scr...