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Jenny Mollen is poking fun at the recent backlash she’s received about a photo with her son
On Monday, June 15, the author and actress shared a snap on her Instagram Stories hugging her 12-year-old son Sid, jokingly suggesting “somebody call the cops”
Mollen shares her sons with ex Jason Biggs
Jenny Mollen is poking fun at the recent backlash she’s received about a photo with her son.
On Monday, June 15, the author and actress, 47, shared a snap on her Instagram Stories hugging her 12-year-old son Sid, jokingly suggesting that “somebody call the cops.” The quip comes after Mollen received criticism for posting a picture of her lying on top of her son in a bed.
“Somebody call the cops, I’m hugging my son who I haven’t seen in three days,” she wrote in text over the picture.
Jenny Mollen and her son
Credit: Jenny Mollen/Instagram
Mollen, who also shares her son Lazlo, 8, with her ex Jason Biggs, originally posted two images on Instagram back in May, showing herself lying on top of Sid on a bed, while placing her hands around the back of his head. Mollen lay her head next to Sid’s on the sheets, with both of their faces covered as she cuddled her son.
A second photo then showed the writer again lying on top of her son, still with her hands behind his head. Sid then linked his fingers in front of his mom’s face, covering both of their faces. In the since-deleted caption, Mollen wrote, “your eldest will be the most toxic boyfriend you ever had.”
Commenters criticized the star, with one saying, “This is creepy and wildly inappropriate.” Another wrote, “This is so disturbing,” while another defended her, pointing out, “She’s not doing anything wrong. That’s her son. That’s his mom.”
In the June 8 edition of her Substack newsletter, The Best Friend Experience, Mollen reflected on the reaction she received, writing, “Last week, the internet called me a child molester for posting a photo of myself holding my son.” She noted the photo had been taken after Sid’s return from a weekend away, and that what “‘strangers saw as scandal, I saw as grief.”
“There’s something devastating about realizing your child can survive without you, that they can be content somewhere else,” wrote the author, who has long been candid about both her marriage and parenthood in books, her newsletter and on social media.
Jenny Mollen and her son
Credit: Jenny Mollen/Instagram (2)
The former actress later got vulnerable about what she meant by her “toxic boyfriend” caption.
“Loving a child is a vomit-inducing free fall, and I’ve spent the last twelve years writing about it,” she wrote. “The joke that offended people was, ‘Your eldest son will be the most toxic boyfriend you ever have.'”
Mollen continued, “And he is. Parenthood has demanded a level of commitment and self-sacrifice from me that, in any other context, would be considered pathological. I’d never accept this kind of relationship under any other circumstances. And yet here I am, jumping through fire, constantly striving for affection and approval, waiting by the phone for a guy who can’t even drive.”
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She noted that she’s been making some version of the same joke for nearly a decade, after first welcoming Sid in 2014, and then her son Lazlo in 2017.
“When I look at that picture, I see a 12-year-old boy who still wants his mother, and a woman trying to hold on to closeness and connection at a time in her life when everything else is changing,” she wrote. “I spent the last decade begging for five minutes alone, only to get exactly what I asked for. And it has broken my heart. It will break your heart, too.”
She added, “Don’t let anyone shame you for holding on while you still can.”
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