Dad of 11 Elon Musk 'offered his own sperm to pals and a very famous politician'

A vocal pro-natalist, billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly urged his followers to procreate to save the planet. And he's reportedly previously made a rather unusual offer to friends and one famous face

As the father of 11 living children, Elon Musk has a larger family than most - but apparantly has no intention to stop populating the earth with his progeny anytime soon.

The world's richest man, who has made no secret of his fears over population collapse, has reportedly gone to eyebrow-raising extremes to keep spreading his seed - even allegedly offering his sperm to friends and aquaintances.

Tesla owner Musk, who has now been given a new role in President-elect Donald Trump's White House cabinet, has repeatedly urged his fans to have children, and lots of them. In 2022, Musk tweeted: "Population collapse due to low birthrates is a much bigger risk to civilisation than global warming. (And I do think global warming is a major risk)."

Back in February of this year, Musk drove his point home even harder, writing: "I'm doing my best to encourage more people to become parents and ideally have three or more kids, so humanity can grow. The population collapse in most countries is a tragedy. Sales of adult diapers should never exceed sales of baby diapers!"

And Musk is said to be going beyond just encouragement, with one queasy offer leading to a rejection one can imagine could have been rather awkward.

The New York Times reports that Musk has offered his semen to pals - including Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate Nicole Shanahan. And according to two sources, Shanahan declined this unusual offer.

Guests at a dinner party attended by Musk last year also told the publication that the billionaire claimed he could provide sperm to 'a married couple he had met socially only a handful of times'.

According to the publication, the couple had mentioned during the meal, which was thrown by a prominent Silicon Valley tech executive, that they were experiencing difficulties conceiving, prompting Musk to make the suggestion. Musk also allegedly 'boasted about his many children' at the get-together.

Musk, who has aligned himself with right-wing politics and the 'MAGA' movement in recent times, has positioned himself as a pro-natalist, a philosophy that involves supporting an increase in the birth rate, and some of his comments on the matter haven't gone down well with everyone.

Things got especially uncomfortable when pop icon Taylor Swift signed off her endorsement of Kamala Harris with 'Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady' - a nod to Vice President-elect JD Vance's assertion that Democrats were "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives", made during a 2021 interview with Fox News.

In response to Taylor's statement, Musk replied: "Fine Taylor . . . you win . . . I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life." A number of X users dubbed the response 'creepy', with one person shuddering: "So this is what ick looks like." Another said: "This is so weird man." Thankfully, it would seem that Musk's anguish over population numbers is unfounded, meaning his allegedly unappetising dinner party thoughts needn't have been voiced out loud.

Wired reports that most projections agree that the global population is set to peak at some point in the second half of the 21st century, before plateauing or gradually droping. Patrick Gerland, chief of the United Nations’ Population Estimates and Projections Section told the publication that looking at these projections as a collapse 'is probably too dramatic'. According to the United Nations (UN), population figures reached nearly 8.2 billion by the middle of 2024 and are expected to continue rising to 10.3 billion over the course of the next 60 years, before declining to around 10.2 billion.

People magazine reports that Musk welcomed six children with his first wife, the Canadian novelist Justine Wilson, whom he married between 2000 and 2008. Tragically, the former couple lost their first child, a son named Nevada Alexander, in 2002, after he passed away from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) when he was just 10 weeks old. Opening up about her grief in a piece penned for Marie Claire, Justine wrote: "I buried my feelings ... coping with Nevada's death by making my first visit to an IVF clinic less than two months later. Elon and I planned to get pregnant again as swiftly as possible. Within the next five years, I gave birth to twins, then triplets."

In 2004, Musk welcomed twins Vivian and Griffin through IVF, with triplets Kai, Saxon, and Damian arriving in 2006. Musk went on to expand his family during his on-off relationship with musician Claire Boucher, best known to fans as Grimes. And this time around, the couple got very creative with names. Little X Æ A-Xii was born in May 2020, followed by Exa Dark Sideræl, who they welcomed with the help of a surrogate in December 2021. Another child, Techno Mechanicus, was also born to the pair in 2022, after Elon told The New York Post that they had 'semi separated'.

Musk also shares twins Strider and Azure with project director Shivon Zilis, with the children arriving in 2021, mere weeks before the birth of his and Grimes' third child. Earlier this year, Musk and Neurolink exec Shivon, 38, welcomed their third child together earlier this year, but have not made the gender or birth date publicly known.

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