There was a bizarre meltdown this weekend from the conservative influencer who alleges she is the mother of Elon Musk’s latest child. Her name is Ashley St. Clair. She says she is 26 years old but internet sleuths claim she may actually be 31 or 32. I have no idea what is true, but she came out via tweet on Friday and said she is the mother of Elon Musk’s baby, a five-month-old boy.
She said she was disclosing the news now because it has “become clear that tabloid media intended to do so, regardless of the harm it will cause.”
Elon didn’t respond to the post directly, but the internet started weighing in on this saying, ‘Whoa, is this true?’ ‘What’s happening?’ People found an old tweet from St. Clair from May 2020 when she posted that she needed Musk’s contact information so she could get his “attention for a marriage proposal.” She was talking about the fact that he has slept with a lot of women and impregnated them.
Someone posted a screenshot of those 2020 texts and Musk responded, “Whoa.” That is the only response he has given so far to this whole thing. On Saturday, St. Clair replied to one of Musk’s tweet on a different topic that she had “been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded.” She later wrote, “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?” The latter was a reference to the guy who resurfaced her old tweet.
Choices Made
The whole thing is kind of confusing, but it is a long way of saying this woman is accusing Elon Musk of impregnating her and not, I guess, negotiating with her over the care of the child – or at least not to the point where she is happy with the negotiation.
The day after her tweet hit, she posed for a full spread in The New York Post wearing a lacy corset in a swanky New York City apartment, which is described in the piece as “lavish.” All I could think as I looked at this was: Your life is the way it is because you decided it would be. It is because of your choices, madam. You set it up this way.
As I posted on X, you can have a swanky New York apartment. You could earn money and actually wind up renting one yourself. You can also find a man who wants to marry you, and raise children with you, and won’t have other women in his life at the same time. All of this is available to you – not just her, but any woman.
You do not have to make a choice where you try to bang the billionaire to get his baby so that he will put you up in some lavish New York City apartment and take care of you for the rest of his life and then be shocked when he doesn’t actually want to have a relationship with you and the only way you can maybe get him to respond to you is via tweet.
I’m sorry, but, again, you made choices, they were very bad ones, and these are the consequences of that.
Female Disempowerment?
Now, Elon believes it is important to overpopulate the earth and says he is doing his part. You could say he is a cad, but he appears to be very open about this with the women in his life. This woman knew all of that when she decided to get into a relationship with him. Yes, he is older. He is in his fifties, and she is 26 to 31. But she knew all of this. By the way, she also has another child with a different man.
My point simply is: If this really did happen, she walked into it eyes open. And that is fine. No judgment. If that is the way you want to live your life, go for it, sister. But once you do that, don’t ask me to feel sorry for you. Don’t do the sad posts about how he won’t talk to you. Don’t try to go public and gin up hatred against him for negotiating via tweet. This is the life you chose.
I don’t understand why young women think their only road to financial success is to marry a rich guy or get pregnant by a rich guy and make him pay for your lifestyle. To me, it is so f-cking disempowering. If you want to be rich, if you want a nice apartment, why don’t you earn it? Why are you just trying to bag some rich guy? It is wrong.
And if you do bang the rich guy and if you do get pregnant with his child, then be dignified about it if it doesn’t work out. I don’t believe her claim about the tabloid because it doesn’t seem like she doesn’t want publicity. She did the whole big spread with The New York Post. Even if a tabloid was about to break the news, let them break it and say nothing. That is the classy, highbrow way of handling this. She seems to want the attention and, at the same time, our sympathy. I am having a really difficult time giving it to her.
‘Heed the Advice’
If Elon actually is the father, he will have to take care of that child. That is the law. He has taken care of the other 12, so I believe he will. But I don’t know whether this is, in fact, his child, and I don’t know what the contract negotiation is, if any, behind the scenes.
I am just saying, again, your life is the way it is because you set it up that way. If you have made poor choices that have led to poor outcomes, you need to look at yourself to get better results in the future – not at Elon, not at the tabloids, not at anyone other than yourself.
This woman seems like she was an up and comer. She has a big X following. There are a lot of people on the right who like this person. She didn’t need a man to create a great life for herself. She was on her way. I am afraid this is seriously going to set her back.
I hope other women make better choices because if you want to have a baby and have a family, you can do it. You can do it and stay home and take care of them. You can do it and go back to the workforce. Either one is awesome. But doing it just to get a paycheck that you can afford a swanky apartment on is really fraught with peril. You will learn the hard way if you cannot heed these words of advice.
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