Elon Musk and ex-wife Justine Wilson run in separate circles, according to their daughter, Vivian Wilson.
In an interview with Teen Vogue published on March 20, Vivian — one of Musk’s 14 children with four different women — said she and her mom don’t interact often with the Tesla CEO, 53. (The pair, who tied the knot in 2000, separated in 2008.)
“I don’t keep up with that side of the family because … I don’t,” Vivian, 20, said. “My mom doesn’t really either. She’s divorced, werk.”
“So yeah. I don’t really give a f— what they do. This is not my problem, okay?” added Vivian, who is estranged from her father.
Musk became a father for the first time in 2002, when Justine welcomed their son Nevada Alexander, who died at 10 weeks old of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The two went on to have five more children: twins Vivian and Griffin, plus triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, 19.
Years later in 2020, after Musk and Grimes were romantically linked, the SpaceX founder and the singer welcomed their first child, X Æ A-12. Musk and Grimes, 37, share two more children, a girl, Exa Dark Sideræl, and a boy, Techno Mechanicus.
A few weeks before the arrival of his second child with the Miss Anthropocene musician, Musk also secretly fathered twins, Strider and Azure, with Shivon Zilis, according to court documents published by Insider. The pair later welcomed daughter Arcadia in February 2024.
A year later, Ashley St. Clair revealed that she and Musk had welcomed a child, before Zilis, 39, then announced that she and Musk had secretly welcomed baby No. 4, son Seldon Lycurgus, though it’s unclear when.
Speaking with Teen Vogue, Justine said of her daughter, “Vivian has always had an uncompromising sense of who she is — and who she needs to be.”
“She is big, fierce, wild multi-layered magic,” the novelist and short story author added of her child, who came out as transgender in 2020.
Vivian, for her part, told the publication that she and her mother are indeed on good terms, unlike her relationship with her father.
“She’s been supportive of the choices that I have made in college, about being public [with my gender identity],” she said, adding that her mother was “kind of was like, ‘Well, I can’t stop you, so whatever.’ “
