Elon Musk Breaks Silence On Why He Reportedly Had Twins With A Top Executive

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday morning to address the controversy surrounding the birth of his new twin children.

On Wednesday night, Business Insider reported that the Tesla CEO had quietly welcomed twins with top Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.

According to court documents obtained by the publication, the twins were born in November 2021. Musk, 51, and Zilis, 36, filed a petition to change their twins' names in order to “have their father’s last name and contain their mother’s last name as part of their middle name,” according to court documents.

In May 2022, the petition was approved by a judge in Austin, Texas; however, the children's names have not been disclosed.

As the publication reported, the twins were born only weeks before Musk and his ex-partner, Grimes, welcomed their second child together via surrogate in December 2021: a daughter named Exa Dark Sideræl. The former couple also has a 2-year-old son named X Æ A-Xii.

The SpaceX founder also has five other children with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson: Griffin, Vivian, Kai, Saxon, and Damian. The couple married in January 2000 and welcomed a son named Nevada Alexander Musk in 2002. Unfortunately, the newborn died of sudden infant death syndrome, better known as SIDS, when he was only ten weeks old. They went their separate ways in 2008.

The world's richest man, at least according to Forbes, took to Twitter on Thursday morning to say that he is simply trying to do his best to solve the underpopulation crisis.

"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis," he tweeted. "A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far."

He later added, "Mark my words, they are sadly true."

After, he tweeted, "Population of Mars is still zero people!" Musk has been vocal about his desire to get people living on Mars within his lifetime.

He then tweeted, "I hope you have big families and congrats to those who already do!"

This isn't the first time that Musk has publicly commented on what some perceive as a "Fertility Slump."  On May 24, Musk tweeted, "USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years," along with a graph from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Contrary to what many think, the richer someone is, the fewer kids they have," Musk said in a comment underneath the graph. "I am a rare exception. Most people I know have zero or one kid."

Musk claimed that the "Past two years have been a demographic disaster" and then added, "I mean, I’m doing my part haha."

Dogecoin creator Billy Markus, who goes by Shibetoshi Nakamoto, offered his take on Twitter.

"honestly the major reason for that is people can’t afford to have kids," Markus tweeted alongside a shrug emoji. Musk responded, "then why is it that the richer someone is, the fewer kids they have?"

On Thursday morning, even record producer Cisco Adler weighed in on the debate. He tweeted, "What if the issue unfurling is that only the ultra-rich can afford to have a bunch of kids and if we have a small population of only rich people they fear there will be no worker bees? Traditionally the poor had way too many kids and thus created a workforce for the rich…"

Adler later added, "Disclaimer: This is a [thought] not a belief by the way…we are allowed to think still right?"

Either way, it seems that Musk is looking to get past the debate. Only a few minutes after his first tweet, the tech mogul asked his followers, "Maybe Tesla should make a highly configurable Robovan for people & cargo?"