Grimes has made a uncommon remark in regards to the youngsters she shares with Elon Musk and given a glimpse into their coparenting dynamic.
Taking to X on Thursday, January 22, Grimes (actual title Claire Elise Boucher) gushed about her youngsters, with out naming them. (Grimes and Musk share three kids, sons X Æ A-Xii, 5, and Techno Mechanicus, 3, in addition to daughter Exa Darkish Sideræl, 4.)
“I attempt to by no means speak [about] or present my youngsters as a result of they deserve the precise to anonymity however i simply should say their pure aura is unmatched,” Grimes, 37, wrote by way of the social media platform. “One in all them even inexplicably commanded a flock of crows for [a] whereas. May be biased however this appears uncommon.”
In addition to replying “agree” when considered one of her followers advised that “utilizing youngsters for clout is sh**y af,” Grimes supplied a small perception on how her parenting opinions differ to that of her ex, Musk, 54, when one other X consumer requested if her youngsters ever “get display screen time.”
“Big debate cuz the opposite dad or mum is ok w it however it’s pretty prevented,” she responded, with out referring to Musk or their kids by title. “If it occurs we deal with nice artwork and ideally slower stuff like ghibli that isn’t continually altering context.”
Whereas she doesn’t typically converse in regards to the former couple’s kids publicly, Grimes has beforehand famous that she has tried to persuade the Tesla billionaire to not enable their kids to be within the public eye greater than is important.

Grimes. (Photograph by Frazer Harrison/Getty Photos)
In March 2025, Grimes claimed she’s “tried begging” to maintain their kids out of the limelight.
“I sadly don’t management the web and can’t wipe this from the web. I’ve tried begging the general public and my youngsters’ dad to maintain them offline, and I’ve tried authorized recourse,” Grimes wrote by way of X on the time, referencing a remark about making an attempt to guard her kids from false on-line narratives. “I’ve seen younger ppl destroyed by the web too.”
She added, “The state of my kids’s lives being public is of grave concern to me and I take into consideration the right way to remedy this day-after-day. It’s insane to me that there’s no solution to cope with this.”
Grimes and Musk started relationship in 2018 earlier than finally calling time on their relationship, with the singer formally confirming the pair’s break up in March 2022.
After the beginning of their first little one, Musk shared his ideas on fatherhood throughout an interview with The New York Occasions in July 2020.
“Effectively, infants are simply consuming and pooping machines, you already know?” he informed the outlet. “Proper now there’s not a lot I can do. Grimes has a a lot greater position than me proper now. … When the child will get older, there shall be extra of a job for me.”
For her half, Grimes received candid about the kind of dad or mum she hoped to be when talking to Wired three years later.
”I actually care about having an excellent relationship with my youngsters,” she informed Wired in August 2023. “I believe I perceive the right way to be a great dad or mum to them. Each implementing self-discipline and being their good friend. Who is aware of, possibly they’ll resent me and reject household tradition, however I really feel like they won’t.”
Together with his youngsters with Grimes, Musk has 14 kids in complete. He welcomed six youngsters along with his ex-wife, Justine Musk and 4 with know-how government Shivon Zillis. In March 2025, writer Ashley St. Clair introduced she had secretly given beginning to Musk’s little one 5 months prior.


