--- title: "An Influencer Says She Had Elon Musk’s Baby and the Drama Is Pretty Spectacular, Even by His Standards" description: "A right-wing influencer is claiming she secretly gave birth to Elon Musk's 13th child — and somehow, that's not even the most dramatic part." date: "2025-02-18" modified: "2025-02-18" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/influencer-elon-musk-thirteenth-baby" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "babies" - "elon musk" - "influencers" - "musk family" --- # An Influencer Says She Had Elon Musk’s Baby and the Drama Is Pretty Spectacular, Even by His Standards ![A right-wing influencer is claiming she secretly gave birth to Elon Musk's 13th child — and somehow, that's not even the most dramatic part.]() *\Image: Nintendo / Getty / Futurism\* ## Yeet Child of Mine A conservative influencer is claiming she secretly gave birth to Elon Musk's thirteenth known child — and somehow, that's not even the most dramatic aspect of this buck wild story. "Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world," right-wing pundit [Ashley St. Clair said in a statement]() posted to X. "Elon Musk is the father." In her statement, the 26-year-old — formerly employed [by the *Babylon Bee*](), a right-wing satire site — insisted that until now, she hadn't disclosed her child's birth "to protect our child's safety and privacy" and that she was soon to be outed by an undisclosed "tabloid media" source. After that big reveal, St. Clair elaborated on the situation in an [interview with the *New York Post*](). "I was told to keep it secret," she said. "I was being asked to keep it a secret forever." As St. Clair detailed in that interview, Musk "slid into \[her\] DMs" following his purchase of Twitter in 2022. By the next year, the pair had begun a relationship after the woman, then just 24 years old, traveled to San Francisco with other *Bee* staffers to [interview the billionaire](). Before long, the conservative influencer fell pregnant — though to this day, Musk has yet to publicly acknowledge paternity. As the *NY Post* explained in its story, the paper was provided with texts between the young writer and Jared Birchall, the CEO of Neuralink who also serves as [Musk's wealth manager](). In those messages, which weren't published but were briefly described by the paper, St. Clair appears to comply with the multi-hyphenate business owner's request to be left off the child's birth certificate, allegedly for privacy purposes. As melodramatic as this debacle already was, it got even wilder when Milo Yiannopoulos, another far-right figure, waded into the fray. "Ashley St Clair plotted for HALF A DECADE to ensnare Elon Musk," the allegedly "[ex-gay]()" pundit [said in an X post]() over the weekend. That post also featured a grainy photo of a screen showing a 2020 exchange between St. Clair and another user in which she joked that she "need\[ed\] to get Elon Musk's attention for a marriage proposal." Musk himself replied to Yiannopoulos with a single word — "[Woah]()" — in what amounts to his only response to St. Clair's claim that she gave birth to his thirteenth child. One thing's for sure: the co-parenting situation so far sounds like a drama-laden disaster. "Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded," St. Clair wrote in a [since-deleted post](), seemingly in reference to Yiannopoulos. "When are you going to reply to us instead of publicly responding to smears from an individual who just posted photos of me in underwear at 15 years old?" Supposing that St. Clair's claims hold up, it's unknown whether the billionaire and his avowed paramour conceived her alleged child the old-fashioned way or did so via in vitro fertilization (IVF), as [many of Musk's acknowledged children]() were — and that's without getting into other [recent gossip]() about the billionaire's sex life. While Musk continues to [move fast and break things]() within the federal government, this latest [baby mama drama]() is another telling example of why [these kinds of men]() are profoundly ill-equipped to be running our country. Unfortunately, we seem to be stuck with him — and his boss — until folks with political power [decide to stop pulling the wool over their eyes](). **More on the Musk family:** [*Elon Musk’s Dad Goes On Transphobic Tirade Against His Grandkids*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()