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South African entrepreneur Elon Musk is busy increasing the world population. The billionaire currently has nine children: twins, triplets, two babies with singer Grimes and it has just come to light that he welcomed another twin in 2021 with a top executive of his company. So many multiples with different partners, could that be a coincidence? Or is Elon Musk also some kind of genius in bed?
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Hanne Vandenweghe
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It is no coincidence that Elon Musk (51) has many children. He said this himself in an interview with . in December 2021 The wall street journal† Contrary to what everyone thinks, according to him there are too few people on the globe. “If people don’t have more children, civilization will crumble. Mark my words”, it sounded literally … so he does a nice penny himself.
We would like to list it. Musk welcomed twins Xavier and Griffin in 2004. Two years later, triplets followed: Kai, Saxon and Damian. These five sons were conceived via IVF and he shares with his first wife Jennifer Justine Wilson, a Canadian writer whom he met at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. In 2020 another son was added with singer Grimes, who listens to the complex name X AI Archangel. A year later, in December 2021, the two welcomed daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, simply called Y, via a surrogate mother. Now the news is everywhere that Musk became a dad again before December, in November 2021. Court documents show that in that month Shivon Zilis, manager at his company Neuralink, became the mother of his twins, whose names have not yet been revealed. Whether that fact played a role in the rift between Musk and Grimes in March of this year is unknown.
Leaving aside his love life, Musk raises the question of how exceptional it is that he repeatedly fathered multiple births. According to gynecologist Guy Verhulst, it is certainly possible for couples to have multiple multiples together, even if there were no IVF or other fertility treatments. Yet it is extremely rare, especially with different partners. One thing is certain: it has little to do with the father. Musk is an exceptional genius, but that won’t translate into super sperm. “The natural chance of having multiple births depends on the woman’s ovulation.” The expert also doubts that the entrepreneur, who openly focuses on an XXL family, has given free rein to nature. “There is a real chance that Zilis has taken pills to increase the chance of having multiple births,” he says.
“Pills like Clomid and Letrozole are prescribed to women who are not ovulating. These drugs induce ovulation and offer a five to eight percent chance of multiple births. If the use of the pills is not closely monitored and the dose is too high, the woman in question will make more follicles and you have an even greater chance of twins and even triplets,” says Verhulst. The gynecologist emphasizes that the pills will not lead to pregnancy faster in women with ovulation and a strong desire to have children, but will only increase the risk of multiple births.”
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