{"id":2471276,"date":"2026-06-22T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2471276"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:48:38","slug":"jenny-mollen-addresses-hate-for-calling-son-a-toxic-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jenny-mollen-addresses-hate-for-calling-son-a-toxic-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Mollen Addresses Hate for Calling Son a &#8216;Toxic Guy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/jenny-mollen\/\"><strong>Jenny Mollen<\/strong><\/a> is standing by her controversial social media post jokingly comparing her oldest son to a \u201ctoxic\u201d boyfriend in the midst of her divorce from actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/jason-biggs\/\"><strong>Jason Biggs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Your eldest child will be the most toxic guy you ever date.\u2019 Which is true.\u201d Mollen, 47, recalled of her controversial social media caption in a clip of her upcoming appearance on <strong>Amanda Hirsch<\/strong>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lMRdL99yoiM&amp;t=11s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cNot Skinny Not Fast\u201d<\/a> podcast scheduled for Tuesday, June 23. \u201cIf you have a son, you f***ing know that. And I can explain what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mollen shared a photo featuring the author laying on top of her son, Sid, 12, as they embraced on a bed. After sharing the post online, Mollen <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/jenny-mollen-faces-backlash-over-photos-with-12-year-old-son\/\">received mixed reactions<\/a> from social media users. Mollen shared during the podcast appearance that she believes that her post got on the wrong side of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody attached my Instagram to my Facebook and Facebook is a different [demographic] of human,\u201d she claimed. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s where it started to get this weird traction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mollen pointed out that the post was a typical joke she\u2019s been making about her kids for years, adding that she believes she received the backlash in part because she\u2019s no longer \u201cattached\u201d to a man. (The <em>Girls<\/em> actress <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/do-jason-biggs-and-jenny-mollen-have-kids-meet-their-2-sons\/\">shares sons<\/a> Sid and Lazlo, 8, with estranged husband Biggs, 48.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like, this is the joke I\u2019ve been making forever,\u201d she reflected. \u201cLike, I\u2019m in this dysfunctional relationship with a guy who\u2019s like, \u2018Can you hold my head while I vomit into the toilet?\u2019 \u2026 \u2018Can you give me a full body massage before bed?\u2019 \u2018Can you be a dear and put more ice in my water bottle?\u2019 Like, this is the treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mollen joked that her eldest will \u201cuse and abuse\u201d her and jokingly compared him to being a \u201cdictator.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the dictator And I live in this autocratic regime where I have to like \u2026 it\u2019s like, thumbs up or thumbs down, off with my head if I f***ing serve you sun-butter,\u201d she quipped.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/jenny-mollen-realized-she-had-lice-while-on-an-airplane\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jenny-Mollen-Realized-She-Had-Lice-While-Traveling-on-an-Airplane.jpg?crop=0px%2C20px%2C1334px%2C753px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Jenny Mollen Realized She Had Lice While Traveling on an Airplane\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/jenny-mollen-realized-she-had-lice-while-on-an-airplane\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Jenny Mollen Realized She Had Lice While Traveling on an Airplane<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tJenny Mollen learned she had lice while on an airplane \u2014 and the internet is not having it. \u201cI\u2019m on a plane with [assistant] Caroline, and she just looked at my head. Remember when I told you last week that I said my head was itchy and I thought I was having perimenopause symptoms?\u201d Mollen, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Mollen doesn\u2019t know if people thought the snap of her embracing Sid was too \u201clascivious,\u201d she also wonders if the timing of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/jason-biggs-jenny-mollen-split-after-18-years-of-marriage\/\">her and Biggs\u2019 separation<\/a> played into it. (Mollen and the <em>American Pie<\/em> actor announced <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/signs-that-jason-biggs-jenny-mollen-were-headed-for-a-split\/\">their split<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if I made this joke a month, or two months ago it would have played differently,\u201d she said, explaining that if she \u201cwas publicly with a man\u201d at the time the post would have been taken in a different context. \u201cAnd I think that there\u2019s something about a woman who is not attached to a man that somehow reads as a threat, dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Mollen is standing by her controversial social media post jokingly comparing her oldest son to a \u201ctoxic\u201d boyfriend in the midst of her divorce from actor Jason Biggs. \u201c\u2018Your eldest child will be the most toxic guy you ever date.\u2019 Which is true.\u201d Mollen, 47, recalled of her controversial social media caption in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2354101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,30055,24003,21928],"class_list":["post-2471276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-moms","tag-celebrity-news","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Valleys-Zack-Warns-Theres-More-Amanda-West-Drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471277,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471276\/revisions\/2471277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}