Who Is Ashley St. Clair?

On Friday, conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair announced that five months ago she had a baby with tech billionaire Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In a post on X, the Musk-owned platform on which she has a million followers, St. Clair said she was making the announcement to preempt the baby’s existence being revealed by “tabloid media” acting “regardless of the harm it will cause.”

Musk was already known to having had 12 children via three different women, his ex-wife Justine Wilson, singer Grimes and Shivon Zilis, an executive at his company Neuralink. his first child with Wilson died just weeks after its birth in sudden infant death syndrome-related incident.

Over the years, Musk has spoken out repeatedly about declining human birth rates, warning in October 2024 this could lead to “mass extinction of entire nations” in October 2024.

In the statement, St. Clair said her baby was born five months ago and that Musk was the father. She added that she had not previously disclosed this to protect the child’s privacy and safety.

There is come confusion over St. Clair’s age, with British tabloid The Sun saying she is 26, while the New York Post reports she is 31.

St. Clair wrote for satirical website the Babylon Bee, a conservative-leaning version of The Onion. The Babylon Bee had been banned from Twitter, now X, for awarding then Health and Human Services assistant secretary Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, its “man of the year” award in 2022. The account was reinstated after Musk purchased the platform.

In July 2021, St. Clair published Elephants Are Not Birds, a children’s book described as an “unapologetic rebuke of transgender acceptance.” In the book, a vulture called Culture tries to persuade an elephant named Kevin that he is also a bird, on the basis that he can sing well. Speaking to the Daily Mail, St. Clair said in the end Kevin “realizes he’s better the way he was made and he can like to sing and still be an elephant.”

St. Clair featured on conservative beer brand Ultra Right’s “Real Women of America 2024 Calendar,” which was released in December 2023. The calendar featured a number of young women in seductive poses, some in bikinis. St. Clair was pictured in a bubble bath wearing a black bra and pearl necklace, in an apparent reference to a video released by transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney for Bud Light.

The calendar sparked a debate among conservatives, which was dubbed Calendargate, with some believing it was too debasing and others defending the project.

In 2023, St. Clair went viral on social media by making a series of X posts on a flight from Phoenix to New York City in which she said the other passengers were primarily “migrants who crossed the border and are being shipped to New York.”

Following St. Clair’s latest announcement, an X post she made in November 2023 resurfaced on the social media platform.

In it St. Clair wrote: “Stopping birth control and Adderall was one of the best things I ever did for my mental health.” Musk then responded: “For sure.”