Elon Musk reveals details about his new baby with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis – his 12th child – after he was accused of keeping the birth a secret

Elon Musk has revealed how he recently had a third baby with 38-year-old Neuralink director Shivon Zilis, who is part of his brain implant company.

Musk, 52, was accused of keeping the birth of the child – his twelfth in total – a secret after news of the birth was made public through media reports.

The billionaire businessman says he never intended to keep it a secret, but that issuing a press release would also have been “bizarre” even though the baby’s name and gender have not been revealed.

“As for ‘conceived in secret’, that is also incorrect. All our friends and family know it. The lack of a press release, which would be bizarre, does not mean ‘secret,'” Musk told Page Six about the birth

The baby, believed to have been born earlier this year, was first mentioned in a report from Bloomberg titled ‘Elon Wants You to Have More Babies’.

The baby would have been born earlier this year

Musk said he never intended to keep the birth of his twelfth child a secret, but that sending out a press release would also have been “bizarre.” In the photo, Musk welcomes his son X in 2020

The article discusses the X and Tesla owner’s previously shared concerns about declining population numbers.

“A declining birth rate is by far the greatest danger facing civilization,” he has tweeted in the past.

Musk is a fanatic when it comes to a possible “population collapse,” which he believes poses a greater risk to the world than global warming.

This was evident from a recent conversation about populists. .

“Agreed,” Musk replied. ‘But if the birth rate remains as low as it is now [1.6] your Dutch nation will become extinct by its own hand.’

‘Many countries are already well below the replacement rate, and the trend indicates that this will be the case in almost all countries. This is just a fact, not a “debunked theory,” Musk has previously said.

Musk is also the father of twins Strider and Azure whom he shares with Zilis

Musk has said he wants to be present for his children and sometimes takes them to work

“2.1 children is the replacement rate, and it’s clear that globally we will soon fall below that point,” Musk said.

In a 2023 interview with Tucker Carlson, Musk shared similar views.

“Once you have birth control and abortions and things like that, you can still satisfy the limbic instinct, but you can’t reproduce. Will civilization end with a bang or a whimper? Well, it’s currently trying to end with a whimper in adult diapers, which is incredibly depressing,” he said.

The US Census Bureau disagrees with such views, noting that the The world population is not decreasing.

100 years ago, 2 billion people lived there, while last year that number exceeded 8 billion.

United Nations data shows that this figure will continue to rise to 10 billion by the year 2100 – and even a collapse is unlikely.

Four-year-old X often accompanies his father to public events

Zilis works as director of special projects for Neuralink Corp. Neuralink is Musk’s brain implant company

Musk and Zilis, who works as special projects director of Neuralink Corp., already share two-and-a-half-year-old twins Strider and Azure, born in November 2021. The couple has appeared in several of Zilis’ films. posts on social media.

In addition to his three children with Zilis, he also shares three with musician Grimes.

Grimes is currently in a legal battle with Musk and is suing him over parental rights to their three children.

Nevertheless, Musk has been seen with his four-year-old son X (née X Æ A-12) at several events, including the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.

Musk also shares twins Griffin and Vivian, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian with his ex-wife, Justine Wilson.

Their eldest child, Nevada, tragically died at just ten weeks of age from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).