Baby number 7! Who are Elon Musk’s children and what do we know about them? Secretly welcoming his latest child with Grimes, the Tesla founder believes it’s his moral duty to father more kids
- Grimes recently tweeted that the pair had broken up again, four months after they welcomed daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, but she still called him the ‘love of her life’
- Musk and Grimes previously said they’d planned to have up to four children together, which would bring his total number of kids to 10
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the end of 2021, Elon Musk spoke of his concern for a world where “there are not enough people”, saying he feared that “civilisation is going to crumble” as a result. His answer? Encourage people to have more babies.
In yet another twist, Grimes tweeted on March 11 that the pair had broken up again, but still called him her “best friend and the love of my life”. Does that mean the pair could yet come good on their plan to have “at least three or four children” together? At this point, who knows.
But while we await a possible Grimes-Musk baby No 3, let’s take a look at the entire Musk brood to date.
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, four months old
Newborn baby Exa is Musk’s first daughter. Born via surrogate in December 2021, she’s also being dubbed “Y” inside the family as her older brother, X Æ A-12, goes by “X”.
The name Exa reportedly refers to the term ExaFlops, which is the “ability to perform one quintillion floating-point operations per second”, Grimes explained to Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, her middle name Dark encapsulates “the beautiful mystery of our universe” while Sideræl is just another way of saying “sidereal”, Grimes added, meaning the “true time of the universe, star time, deep space time” and “not our relative Earth time”.
X Æ A-12, 22 months old
