Elon Musk's former partner Ashley St. Clair says Musk changed after pregnancy

Ashley St. Clair, the former partner of Elon Musk and mother of his one-year-old son Romulus, has opened up about her relationship with the billionaire and what life has been like as a single mother inside what she called the “Elon orbit.” In a series of TikTok videos uploaded on May 15, the 27-year-old influencer shared personal details about how she first met Musk, why she was drawn toward him and how things later allegedly became “weird” between them.

“I got swept into the Elon orbit”

St. Clair said she first crossed paths with Musk while working as a MAGA influencer and becoming involved in right-wing political circles.

“At that point in my life, because I'm involved in MAGA and the right wing and I'm already a single mom, the chances of me getting married and the white picket fence and the white dress, I believed that was out the window for me because I was already ‘stained’ as a single mom,” she said in the nearly 20-minute-long video.

“But, I wanted nothing more than to be a mom. I wanted more kids.”

According to St. Clair, Musk encouraged her to have more children, and she found comfort in the idea of being with someone who also wanted a large family.

She said “the prospect of being with someone who wanted to have more kids” without worrying about “anything” strongly appealed to her.

However, St. Clair claimed that things allegedly got “weird” between the two after she became pregnant. She also alleged that she was misled about Musk’s relationships with other women with whom he shares children, among other things.

The child support and paternity dispute

St. Clair is the mother of Romulus, who was born in September 2024. She also has another son from a previous relationship.

The relationship between the two later became increasingly public and contentious.

In a March 31, 2025 post on X, Musk wrote: “I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out. No court order is needed. Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year.”

St. Clair later claimed Musk refused to take a paternity test and reduced most of the child support payments as punishment for what she described as “disobedience.”

Custody battle and legal pressure

In January, Musk announced he was seeking custody of Romulus after St. Clair made social media posts supporting the transgender community.

In a since-deleted X post, Musk said he “will be filing for full custody, given her statements implying she might transition a 1-year-old boy.”

St. Clair, meanwhile, described her life as being consumed by legal battles and constant scrutiny.

“Everything I do is watched by eight attorneys, four different law firms,” she said in the video.

“I’m in three different courts. I’m just so sick of this and being painted as like I’m the one who’s combative and chaotic when I’m in three different courts and I have people following me all the time.”

“I don’t want to just be Elon Musk’s baby mama”

The influencer said she decided to publicly share her side of the story because she wants to move on from the controversy and stop being defined only through her connection to Musk.

She said she does not want to be known simply as “Elon Musk’s baby mama.”

Musk, meanwhile, is known to have at least 12 publicly acknowledged children with multiple women. He shares three children with musician Grimes, three with Shivon Zilis and six children with his ex-wife Justine Wilson. Musk and Wilson’s first child died at 10 weeks old in 2002.