Influencer and author Ashley St. Clair, who has claimed to have given birth to Elon Musk’s 13th child, has said that the tech billionaire wanted to keep their baby a secret for everyone’s safety. The 26-year-old had taken to X on Friday to reveal her alleged relationship with Musk and the birth of the baby due to prying tabloid reporters.
Speaking to The New York Post on Saturday, St. Clair shared that the 53-year-old Tesla and Space X mogul is “funny” and “down to Earth”. She also shared that after the initial romance began after he slid into her DMs on X in May 2023.
“Musk was very funny. He was smart. He was very down to earth. It started with X interactions and he slid into my DM’s. I think it was a meme,” she told the publication, adding that at the time, she “didn’t particularly have much interest in Elon” other than his taking over of Twitter. Musk bought for $44 billion in 2022.
St. Clair, who was working with a conservative satirical website, said that she met Musk for the first time at Twitter’s headquarters for an interview. She was 24 and Musk was 51.
“After the interview, I got a text from him saying “Feel like going to Providence [Rhode Island] tonight?” she said, adding that the alleged romance blossomed from there until she became pregnant.
“I was told to keep it secret. I was being asked to keep it a secret forever,” St. Clair claimed. She said she was forced to spend her pregnancy alone even though Musk allegedly gave her a lavish apartment and a sturdy security detail, but no romance.
“I was completely isolated during my pregnancy. Every part of my career and everything I used to do I couldn’t do anymore. I was told not to tell anybody,” she said. St. Clair had to keep her condition a secret even from Musk's mother Maye Musk despite the women having spent time together, the New York Post reported.
Musk has, meanwhile, not responded to queries from media houses about St. Clair's allegations but has reacted to a post on X that claimed that she plotted for half a decade to bear his child.
Currently worth $394 billion, according to Forbes, the world's richest person has 12 other children with three women -- five with his first wife Justine Wilson, three with Canadian pop star Grimes, and two with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
Advocate for booming birth rate
Musk has been a vocal advocate for a booming birthrate and has often said that a "collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces".
He has also donated $10 million to a fertility and population research project, Bloomberg reported. Earlier this month he lauded Japan's efforts to increase their birth rate and had in 2002 voiced concern over China's declining population.
The Tesla CEO had previously said that the narrative that more people are choosing not to have kids because it is harmful to the environment is "total nonsense". He had also shared a report on the decline in the fertility rate in the US and said, "US birth rate has been below minimum sustainable levels for 50 years."
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