2 weeks Ago By Dr Kate Lister
There is an awful lot of news about at the moment, so if you missed the Wall Street Journal’s recent (ahem) deep dive into how Elon Musk manages his harem of baby mamas, I wouldn’t blame you. However, if you did have a spare few minutes to peruse what they have uncovered, I promise you it will be time well spent. It’s even stranger than I thought it could be.
Rumours have been swirling around the private life of Musk for several years, a fascination that is only fuelled by the fact he now has 14 children (that we know of), to at least four different women.To date, Musk has fathered six children with his first ex-wife, Justine Wilson, three children with the pop musician Grimes, four children with Shivon Zilis, a project director at Musk’s brain implant company, and in February 2025, the conservative writer and commentator, Ashley St. Clair, announced that she too had one of Musk’s babies.
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addToArray({"pos": "inread-hb-ros-inews"}); }According to the Wall Street Journal, “multiple sources close to the tech entrepreneur said they believe the true number of Musk’s children is much higher than publicly known”. If he keeps this up, in the very near future, it may be easier to just list the women who don’t have a child with Elon Musk.And if this all sounds complicated, it gets worse, because there was a considerable amount of overlap involved.
In 2021, Zilis gave birth to twins with Elon within weeks of Elon and Grimes having a baby via a surrogate.Just a few weeks after St. Clair revealed she and Elon had a five-month-old son together, Zilis announced that she had also given birth once more.
So convoluted is the situation that, according to the WSJ, Musk employs a fixer, Jared Birchall, to oversee and manage his “harem drama”.What Jerry Springer madness is this? Perhaps Elon is just hyper-fertile? The kind of man who can get the furniture pregnant just by sitting on it. But given the fact a great number of these children were allegedly conceived using IVF and surrogates, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
This is all very deliberate. And Musk clearly wants even more. While Ashley St.
Clair was pregnant with his 13th, he suggested bringing even more women into the arrangement to gestate and birth their children in order to “reach legion-level before the apocalypse”.if(window.adverts) { window.
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adverts.addToArray({"pos": "mpu_tablet_l1"}); }The expose is very revealing but, in my opinion, rather falls short when it comes to potential motivation. What is driving Elon’s baby spree? Musk has repeatedly claimed that civilisation is under threat because of declining birth rates.
For example, tweeting (or X’ing), “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis. A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilisation faces by far,” after the birth of his twins.Personally, I’m not buying it.
If Musk was really serious about turning the tide on declining birth rates, as the richest man in the world, he could do a great deal more than impregnating women he meets on social media.He could fund longer parental leave, invest in affordable housing for families, or just give people the money they need to raise children. As it stands, when Musk took over Twitter, he slashed parental leave for his staff, a move he was forced to partly reverse following a public outcry.
No, it seems possible that Elon Musk has a breeding kink, and the money to indulge it. I don’t think this is about saving the world; I think it’s about getting his rocks off. “What is a breeding kink” – or to give it its proper name, “enkuopoiphilia” – I hear you cry.
Well, simply put, it is sexual arousal caused by the idea of becoming, or as (I assume) in Musk’s case, getting someone else pregnant. Despite the prevalence of breeding kink communities across the internet, there isn’t much in the way of academic research to try and pin down what is going on. However, online forums offer a plethora of information.
The reasons people find the idea of getting someone pregnant sexy seem to vary considerably, from finding a pregnant body attractive, to enjoying the risky nature of unprotected sex, to a more dominant/submissive dynamic where the thrill is impregnating someone and potentially “controlling” them. However, for most people, a breeding kink doesn’t go any further than a bit of role play and pretending they are getting someone pregnant. Most devotees don’t really want to get people pregnant.
It’s all a bit of make-believe fun, but there have been a number of deeply disturbing cases where men have gone much further than that.if(window.adverts) { window.
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adverts.addToArray({"pos": "mpu_tablet_l2"}); }For example, in 2014, it came to light that Donald Cline, an Indianapolis fertility doctor, had used his own sperm to inseminate at least 94 women without their consent over the course of several decades. In 2024, Netflix premiered The Man with 1000 Kids, a documentary about Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a Dutch sperm donor who is accused of breaching donation protocol and fathering hundreds of children.
Of course, Elon Musk has not been doing anything as nefarious as inseminating women against their will. As far as we know, everyone involved was more than willing. But according to the WSJ, Musk uses his wealth to buy women’s silence about their children, with some women slapped with a non-disclosure agreement.
Which all seems rather odd if he is truly doing this for some great philanthropic mission to save humanity.So too do the (alleged) text messages Musk sent to Ashley St. Clair, not long after the birth of their first child, “I want to knock you up again”, and later, “Well, we do have a legion of kids to make.
” Are these really the words of a great humanitarian, or are they the words of someone who gets a thrill out of impregnating women he can potentially buy off and control?One of my live-by mantras is “don’t yuk someone’s yum,” but even I have to draw the line when it comes to this kind of chicanery. I think what enrages me most, other than not having been propositioned myself (obviously), is the hypocrisy. Musk seems to be hiding his desires behind a supposed mission to save the planet.
Musk is quite clearly no friend to aspiring parents. He seems to view women as little more than wombs for hire and an expensive means to fulfil a rankly narcissistic agenda – filling the world with a “legion” of his own offspring..
