{"id":725196,"date":"2026-06-09T13:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:18:21","slug":"actress-reacts-to-furor-over-creepy-photos-with-son-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725196\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Reacts to Furor Over \u2018Creepy\u2019 Photos With Son, 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jenny Mollen responded to condemnation over a set of photos she posted featuring her young son, as well as to a controversial blog post about motherhood, which critics deemed inappropriate and even \u201ccreepy.\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 25, the actress-turned-writer, 47, shared two photos of herself lying in bed on top of her 12-year-old son, Sid, on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mollen shares her two sons with her estranged husband, American Pie star Jason Biggs, 48. The couple, who met on the set of My Best Friend\u2019s Girl in 2007, announced their split after 18 years of marriage in May.<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen met on the set of “My Best Friend\u2019s Girl” in 2007 and eloped in 2008. Pictured here after their elopement in September 2008 at New York Fashion Week.<\/p>\n

The original caption, which she first deleted and then doubled down on in the comments, read, \u201cYour eldest son will be the most toxic guy you ever date.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments quickly filled with people voicing their concern over the \u201cweird\u201d post and its \u201cromantic\u201d tone.<\/p>\n

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Even after deleting her caption, Jenny Mollen doubled down on her original statement in the comments section.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Mollen responded to the criticism on her Substack, The Best Friend Experience with Jenny Mollen<\/a>, in a post titled \u201cThe Love That Breaks Us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, the internet called me a child molester for posting a photo of myself holding my son,\u201d she began the essay.<\/p>\n

\"Jenny<\/p>\n

Jenny Mollen posted two pictures on Instagram of herself lying on top of her son on a bed.<\/p>\n

Accompanying Mollen\u2019s Instagram post<\/a> is a \u201ccommunity note\u201d written by a user. It reads, \u201cJenny removed the caption for this post. It originally had a pedophilic statement about her son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The community note, written by another user rather than Jenny Mollen, commented on the original caption of her post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe picture was taken on a Monday night after he returned from a weekend away,\u201d Mollen continued. <\/p>\n

Adding, \u201cThere\u2019s something devastating about realizing your children can survive without you, that they can be content somewhere else. Happy, even. And that the security you once felt in being their entire world was never meant to last.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mollen also described her complicated relationship with her own absent mother before doubling down on the original statement in her post.<\/p>\n

\"Some<\/p>\n

Some commenters were disturbed by the picture Jenny Mollen posted, in which she was face-to-face with her pre-teen son while lying on a bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe joke that offended people was: \u2018Your eldest son will be the most toxic boyfriend you ever have.\u2019 And he is,\u201d she reportedly wrote<\/a> in the paywalled post, further suggesting that people failed to understand her humor.<\/p>\n

\u201cMotherhood isn\u2019t just devotion,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s vulnerability in a form so all-encompassing that it borders on masochism. It\u2019s handing your heart over to another human being whose entire job is to destroy it. Not because they are evil, but because they are supposed to. They can\u2019t stay. And we can\u2019t want them to.\u201d<\/p>\n

While much of the criticism of her original Instagram post\u2014and her May Substack<\/a> essay in which she compared her looks to those of a 12-year-old girl her son was texting with\u2014concerned the language she used, Mollen still toyed with similar wording.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d never accept this kind of relationship under any other circumstances,\u201d she wrote, adding, \u201cAnd yet here I am, jumping through fire, constantly striving for affection and approval, waiting by the phone for a guy who can\u2019t even drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Jason<\/p>\n

Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen announced their split after 18 years of marriage in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I became a mom, I wasn\u2019t prepared for how thoroughly a love like this would break me. How it would turn me inside out and make knots of my viscera,\u201d Mollen wrote.<\/p>\n

Adding, \u201cParenthood has demanded a level of commitment and self-sacrifice from me that, in any other context, would be considered pathological.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her highly criticized May Substack<\/a> post, Mollen wrote that she wanted her sons to marry women whose mothers were dead, and that she hoped at least one of her children was gay.<\/p>\n

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