Elon Musk holds many positions, including CEO of Tesla and CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX, among others, but has also played the role of father to 10 children.
The 51-year-old billionaire first experienced fatherhood, then sudden pain, with the birth and then death of his first child in 2002.
After the unexpected loss, Musk had two sets of multiples.
But his most famous children may be the two he had with singer Grimes because of their unusual names.
That is, so far. On Wednesday, a bomb report came out that Musk had twins with one of his top executives at Neuralink.
But what did he say about raising his Brady Bunch?
Nevada Alexander Musk
Musk and his then-wife, Justine Wilson, welcomed their first child, named Nevada Alexander Musk, on May 18, 2002. The child died just 10 weeks after Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS .
The new father rarely mentioned his loss, but expressed sympathy in an email string with the father of an 18-year-old boy who died in a Tesla crash in 2018.
“There’s nothing worse than losing a child,” Musk wrote, according to Bloomberg. “My eldest son died in my arms. I felt his heartbeat.”
Elon Musk’s children huddle on their backs in this 2017 photo shared by his ex-girlfriend Amber Heard. amberheard / Instagram
Vivian Wilson and Griffin, Kai, Saxon and Damian Musk
For the next five years, Wilson gave birth to twins, Griffin and Vivian in 2004, and three twins: Kai, Saxon and Damian Musk in 2006.
Vivian, now 18, recently came out as a transgender and legally changed her name to Xavier Musk, including her mother’s last name. In court, Vivian said she “no longer lives or wants to be related to my biological father in any way or form.”
Years before Vivian’s transition, Musk wrote in a 2010 opinion piece for Business Insider about her public divorce from the mother of her children, Justine Wilson. Musk said he paid his ex $ 20,000 a month for children’s clothing, food and miscellaneous necessities in addition to Wilson’s living expenses and babysitting salaries.
“The custody of our five children is evenly divided,” Musk said. “I spend almost all of my non-labor surveillance hours with my boys, and they’re the love of my life.”
I love all my children very much
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 19, 2022
Musk took his children out of private school and enrolled them in Ad Astra, the school he founded in 2014.
Ad Astra, which means “to the stars” in Latin, began on the SpaceX campus, admitting only 50 students. It is now an online school that does not have a grading system but offers courses in artificial intelligence, coding and applied sciences, according to the school’s website now known as Astra Nova.
“Kids really like going to school,” Musk told BTV in China in 2017. “I think that’s a good sign … They actually think the holidays are too long. They want to go back to school.” school “.
But in a 2021 interview on the Clubhouse app, Musk admitted that his children were raised online.
“Well, my observation is that my kids were educated mostly by YouTube and Reddit, and then you know, and their, I guess, classmates,” he said. “And I guess there were lessons as well, but judging by the amount of time they spent online, it seemed like most of their education came from the net.”
Griffin, Kai, Damian and Saxon Musk leave the Aman Venice Hotel on July 2. Cobra Team / BACKGRID
X AE A-XII Musc
Musk and his then-girlfriend Grimes introduced their son X AE A-XII to the world in May 2020. The Internet was sparked by the boy’s strange name, which the former couple seemed to disagree on how to pronounce.
On Instagram, the singer wrote, “It’s just X, like the letter X. Then AI How did you say the letter A and then me.”
However, Musk said on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that “X” is spoken “like the letter,” while “the Æ” is pronounced like “ash.” “The proud father said that A-12 era [his] contribution, ”while Grimes occurred with the rest of the baby’s name.
In 2021, Musk did a weird interview talking about his newborn.
• X, the unknown variable ⚔️ • Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love and / or artificial intelligence) • A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite plane). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but not violent 🤍 + (A = Archangel, my favorite song) (⚔️🐁 metal rat)
– 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (⌛️, ⏳) ᚷᚱᛁᛗᛖᛋ (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020
“Well, babies are just machines for eating and pooping, you know?” He said.
“I think babies are great and people really need to have more babies because it seems obvious, but if people don’t have enough babies, humanity will disappear.”
It also offered a deeper insight into his parenting style.
“I can’t do much right now,” Musk said.
“Grimes has a much more important role than I do right now. When the child grows up, there will be more role for me,” he continued. “I think I’m just doing what I’ve done with my other kids. If I have a Tesla trip to China, for example, I’ll take the kids with me and we’ll go see the Great Wall or we’ll take the bullet train from Beijing to Xian and we saw the Terracotta Warriors. “
Elon Musk and his son X Æ A-XII on stage at the Time Person of the Year event on December 13, 2021. Getty Images for TIME
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk
In May 2022, Grimes announced that she and Musk had secretly added another baby, a baby girl, to their family through a surrogate late last year. However, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk arrived when the couple was no longer dating.
“Grimes and I are, I would say, probably semi-separated,” he told Time in December.
Shivon Zilis and Elon Musk secretly had twins in May 2021. shivon / Twitter
Twins with Shivon Zilis
Musk confirmed Thursday that he had twins with an executive at his brain chip company Neuralink a few weeks before welcoming his second child with Canadian pop star Grimes.
“Doing everything we can to help the underpopulation crisis. The collapse of the birth rate is the biggest danger facing civilization,” he tweeted Thursday.
Doing everything possible to help the underpopulation crisis.
The collapse of the birth rate is by far the greatest danger facing civilization.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2022
“Mark my words, they are sadly true,” he continued in a tweet. “A lot of people have the illusion that the Earth is overpopulated, even though birth rate trends are so obviously headed for population collapse.”
The names of the twins are unknown at the moment, but their arrival brings Musk’s new total descendants to 10. They may be the first of his relatives to want to travel to Mars.
In a 2021 interview at Clubhouse, Musk said he would allow his children to travel the planet if they wanted to when they were older.
“It simply came to our notice then [my kids] so far and none of them say they want to go, ”he said. “So they may change their minds, but they’re not currently biting their feet to go to Mars.”