She Had Elon’s Baby. Then, the Leopards Ate Her Face.

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Ashley St. Clair dropped out of college to become a full-time conservative influencer. Five years later, she was pregnant with Elon Musk’s child. Within months, the weight of the politics Ashley built her career on collapsed. Elon publicly disparaged Ashley and reneged on his fatherly responsibilities, and the influencer who once shamed single mothers on Fox News was one herself. Today, June (or JUNlPER, of Twitter fame) joins me to have a frank discussion with a newly reformed Ashley St. Clair. We probe her on profiting off anti-LGBT bigotry, the seductiveness of the right-wing influencer ecosystem, and making amends. And, of course, what it’s like for the leopards to eat your face. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today’s sponsors! Start managing your money better and cancel unwanted expenses at https://www.rocketmoney.com/fruity. Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at https://www.blueland.com/fruity. Listen to June’s podcast, Kill The Computer. Listen to June’s other podcast, Ill Conceived. Follow June on Bluesky. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, we have Mr. Frutie, Miss Onion, and Miss Former Fox News.
0:08.3	This is starting off great.
0:16.0	Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFruity.
0:20.2	In February 2025, I made an episode of this podcast called The Incoherent Sexual Politics
0:26.7	of the Right, which centered largely around a then 26-year-old conservative influencer named
0:32.5	Ashley St. Clair. Ashley had spent years building an online audience of over one million conservatives
0:38.7	who followed her for her hot takes on transgender people, building the wall, single mothers,
0:46.0	the erosion of the traditional family, and all manner of right-wing slop. Sorry, Ashley. I got to
0:52.1	keep it real. It's honest.
1:00.6	In 2021, Ashley wrote a transphobic children's book called Elephants Are Not Birds.
1:02.3	I can kind of guess what that's about.
1:05.3	Her conservative media career was ascendant.
1:10.1	Last February, though, Ashley's life had just taken a wild turn.
1:13.1	She'd announced to the world that she had just had a baby and that the father was Elon Musk. At the time, Elon had essentially ghosted her,
1:19.4	and Ashley took to Twitter to plead, Elon, we've been trying to communicate for the past several days
1:24.0	and you have not responded. When are you going to reply to us? My guest on that
1:28.4	episode, Moira Donigan, said that Ashley made what was called a patriarchal bargain. She offered her
1:34.2	career and her body to a movement that promised her a secure place within its ranks. But then it
1:39.8	didn't. As Moira said, we can sort of assume that somebody in Ashley St. Clair's position thought that being with Elon Musk and by extension having a child with Elon Musk, you know, which we know that he very much wants, would grant her a degree of security and status. You know, she thought that she was making a deal, right? And what we see with
2:02.1	Elon Musk is that he immediately did not hold up his end of the bargain, right? Like, she sold her
2:08.2	soul and didn't get paid for it. In the year since then, things have taken turns that I personally
2:13.1	did not expect. Ashley went completely offline to raise her child and avoid harassment from
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