“Grimes Pleads with Elon Musk to Keep Their Kids Private—Her Shocking Concerns Revealed!”

The Tesla CEO and the musician share three children: son X Æ A-Xii, 4, daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, 3, and son Techno Mechanicus, 2

Elon Musk and Grimes in 2018. Photo: Kevin Mazur/MG18/Getty

Grimes says that she has “begged” Elon Musk to keep their three children out of the public eye.

In a post shared on X on Thursday, March 13, the musician, 36, wrote that she has “begged” her former partner Musk, 53, to stop showing her children in public and on social media, and has even turned to “legal recourse.”

Grimes (whose real name is Claire Boucher) was responding to a fake post on X that purported to show her talking about the “sexuality” of “Fortune 500 CEOs,” and replied to a fan who asked: “How to protect your children from this? Can’t you wipe this garbage from the internet?”

“I unfortunately do not control the internet and cannot wipe this from the internet,” Grimes answered the fan. “I have tried begging the public and my kid’s dad to keep them offline, and I’ve tried legal recourse. I follow you here, I’ve seen young [people] destroyed by the internet too.”

Elon Musk.JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty

“The state of my children’s lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day,” she continued. “It’s insane to me that there’s no way to deal with this. I would hope there was some law that would allow a parent to veto small children from living public lives but I don’t even trust the law to help me now if I tried to invoke it [to be honest].”

“We are in the Wild West of information content and the dismantling of privacy and it’s very concerning,” Grimes finished.

Musk previously made headlines when he brought the pair’s oldest child, son X Æ A-Xii, 4, to the Oval Office on Feb. 11 as President Donald Trump signed an executive order granting Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency more power.

Soon after, Grimes shared that she wasn’t aware of her son’s public appearance, only learning about it through an X user.

“He should not be in public like this,” the singer wrote on X at the time. “I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.”

Grimes and Elon Musk at the 2018 Met Gala.Taylor Hill/Getty

Soon after, the musician also spoke out in an interview with Time published on Feb. 24, and
responded to critics who called her out after criticizing Musk.

“It was like, ‘Grimes slams,’ ‘Grimes speaks out.’ It’s like, OK, it was a reply. But I would really like people to stop posting images of my kid everywhere,” she told the outlet, adding that she believes “fame is something you should consent to.”

“Obviously, things will just be what they are. But I would really, really appreciate that. I can only ask, so I’m just asking,” she added.

Grimes and Musk broke up in September 2021 after three years together. Three months later, they quietly welcomed daughter Exa Dark Sideræl via surrogate.

In September 2023, it was revealed that their third child together, son Techno Mechanicus, was born in June 2022.

The Tesla CEO is father to 14 children. He shares six children with ex-wife Justine Wilson. Their eldest, Nevada Alexander, died of infant death syndrome (SIDS) at 10 weeks old. He also shares four children with Shivon Zilis, an executive at Neuralink, and influencer Ashley St. Clair has claimed that she and Musk welcomed their first child together in September 2024.