Elon Musk 'made strange demand' during childbirth to make sure his baby ‘had a bigger brain’
When he's not busy brandishing a chainsaw on stage of exhibiting verbal diarrhoea on social media, Elon Musk is hard at work creating his own personal army of children.
The Tesla founder has made no secret about his belief that everyone should be having more children and, as a father of 14 confirmed children, is certainly doing his bit to increase the world's population.
Which is pretty easy to do when you have a net worth of several billion and don't have to worry about the cost of living crisis.
Unfortunately for Musk, having billions in the bank hasn't spared him from the finer difficulties of parenting, which include disagreements with your partner on how to raise said child.
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The 53-year-old is currently embroiled in a legal case with conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair, who came forward on social media and claimed that she had given birth to Musk's 13th child.
Relations between Musk and 26-year-old St. Clair seem to have taken a frostier turn in the months following the infant's birth.
Musk hasn't confirmed publicly that he is the father of St Clair's child, however, an article from the Wall Street Journal has since confirmed that the X founder had taken a paternity test which confirmed he had a 99.9999% likelihood of being her child's - a baby boy named Romulus - father.
The outlet also provided an insight into the requests which Musk asks of the women who are the mothers of his children, which includes their living arrangements and how the child is delivered.
According to the WSJ, Musk reportedly asks the women pregnant with his children to give birth via C-section as he believes it will allow for the infant to have a 'larger brain', a claim which is not supported by current medical evidence.
It's not clear how Musk's other children, whom he shares with Justine Wilson, Grimes and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, were delivered, however, St Clair reportedly refused this request.
Another quirk of Musk's billionaire parenting is his request for all of his children and their mothers to live together on a compound in Austin, Texas.
Which is a request that in any other circumstance would be considered pretty cultish, but I guess the rules are different when you're the world's richest man.
It's understood that only Zilis, who is mother to four of Musk's children, lives on the compound.
Grimes, real name Claire Boucher, is said to have declined the request while Musk had previously attempted to entice St Clair to visit the Austin residence and visit his 'kid legion'.
St Clair also revealed that she'd initially been offered $15 million (£11 million) and $100,000 (£75,239) not to disclose Musk as the father of her child until he turned 21, an offer which she claims was offered to his other 'baby mamas' by long-term Musk fixer Jared Birchall.
Alongside his son with St Clair, Musk is confirmed to be the father of 13 other children.
He first became a father in 2002, welcoming a son called Nevada with Canadian author and then-wife Wilson. However, the child would devastatingly pass away just 10 weeks after birth. The couple went on to have five more children - twins Vivian and Griffin, 20, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, 19 - together.
The billionaire also shares three children with Grimes - real name Claire Boucher - sons X Æ A-Xii (pronounced 'X Ash A Twelve') and Tau Techno Mechanicus as well as daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, the latter two of whom were born via a surrogate.
With Zilis, Musk shares twins Strider and Azure in June 2021, born slightly before Exa, as well as daughter Arcadia, born in February 2024, and son Seldon Lycurgus, born in March 2025.
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