What did Jenny Mollen say? Substack article on son slammed online amid bedroom photo controversy

On May 10, Jenny Mollen wrote an article on her ‘The Best Friends Experience’ Substack page titled “Please. Stay. I want you. I need you. Oh, God.” It was based on her 12-year-old son, Sid, whom he shares with her estranged husband and actor Jason Biggs, 48.

Now, excerpts from it have gone viral after her recent Instagram post stirred controversy. The week-old photos showed the mother-son duo lying intertwined on a bed, their arms and legs wrapped around each other, and their faces pressed close together. Many netizens think that Jenny Mollen crossed a line, especially with the original caption:

“Your eldest son will be the most toxic guy you ever date.”

Jenny Mollen, 47, has since removed the caption and replaced it with a dot/ period.

Now, amid the ongoing scandal garnering traction, social media sleuths have dug out portions of her Substack article and are describing it as “creepy” and “inappropriate” among other things. The article begins:

“Call me old-fashioned, but I only want my sons to marry women with dead mothers. It’s my only shot at staying relevant, of seeming useful, and of winning by comparison. Having boys is a mind f**k. It builds you up, only to tear you apart.”

Another viral excerpt reads:

“Several months ago, my eldest was texting with a girl, she was twelve, but I could already tell my brand of toxic. She was bossing him around and using big words, and he was utterly spun. I complained to Jason that I wanted to intervene before he got hurt and that she wasn’t even hotter than me. But Jason insisted I let him make his own mistakes. And objectively, he’s right. But as a mother, you want to shield and protect and fiercely defend the thing you’ve devoted your life to shaping.”

Jenny Mollen continued by writing that there’s a lot of “anticipatory grief” wrapped into motherhood, which triggers even the “most well-adjusted of women.” The Angel alum added:

“But the abandonment we eventually endure as boy moms is uniquely cruel because it begins as worship. They arrive obsessed. Dependent. Adoring. They think we’re magic. We think we are magic.”

Exploring Jenny Mollen’s viral Substack article further amid ongoing controversy

Jenny Mollen wrote in her Substack article how not being a stay-at-home mom and having a job, a dog, and a dozen things to do in real time often gets in the way of her spending more time with her sons, Sid, 12, and Lazlo, 8. However, none of them matters.

“Because as a mother of sons, the red pill and the blue pill both lead to the same place: OBLIVION,” she explained.

Jenny Mollen also noted that being a mother helped her understand her mother-in-law’s perspective and why she “fell apart” when she heard Jenny and Jason were getting married.

“I used to find it insane… Now, I understand it had nothing to do with my cat allergy or whether or not I touched her lasagna. I was eating her son, straight out of the fridge, without even asking for a plate,” the mother of two noted.

Jenny Mollen claimed that her sons still followed her around to the bathroom, kitchen, and anywhere else she went.

“They still need me to fall asleep, go to school, interpret the world, cut it up into small, digestible bites, and spoon-feed it to them before seven-fifteen am each morning. We have a short hand, a long hand, and a second language that Jason still luckily doesn’t understand. But these baby remoras, these emotional vampires- the most emotionally high-maintenance men I’ve ever dated are growing up. And eventually, I will lose them,” she lamented.

Jenny Mollen reflected how growing up, she was every boy moms’ “nightmare” as he accidentally “dismantled” them, “destroyed their lives,” journalled about it and then got “offended” when they no longer wanted to be friends with her. She recalled how she said ‘I love yous’ to boys she didn’t mean and kissed people “just to make them go away.”

“I’ve never been broken up with. I've never been into someone who wasn’t just slightly more into me. But now karma is going to make me pay in spades!!!! Most likely in the form of some crazy b*tch who is going to weaponize my flaws in therapy and melt all my jewellery.”

Jenny Mollen made predictions for how her life might turn out with her being a “lonely old woman” wandering the Grove on Fairfax or waiting for her solo table at Marmalade café at 5 pm, when her sons would be all grown up and busy with their own families and take their mothers-in-law for family vacations and allow them to watch the grandkids.

“We spend years being the center of their emotional world, only to slowly watch them build one without us. If we do our job correctly, they leave. That’s sort of the evolution of all things. And maybe that is the harder pill to swallow. Maybe the tragedy of sons is also the gift: the temporary delusion that you can be all things to another person. That there is no competition for their love, no caveats to their devotion.”

Jenny Mollen concluded by writing how she’s glad her sons are still young and crawl into her sweaters and sheets and need her to open milk cartons and “operate on invisible injuries.” She noted being lucky that they still need and want her around, while being fully aware that she was “living through the longest goodbye of my life.” In the end, she prayed that at least one of her sons would be “gay.”

The cookbook author has yet to respond to the backlash to the Substack article. But she has addressed the bedroom photo controversy and owed it to her recent separation from Jason Biggs after 18 years of marriage.

“It’s like, because I’m getting separated, because I’m not protected by the institution of marriage, I’m suddenly like a different kind of target in what I’m posting. Like this is absolutely jaw-dropping. A photo of me hugging my 12-year-old child is getting ridiculed,” she wrote on her IG Stories last week.

On May 14, a representative for the estranged couple told PEOPLE on May that they have separated but remain on “great terms,” adding they were focused on co-parenting their sons.

Another insider informed the publication that the estranged pair is “doing great” and even spent Biggs’ 48th birthday together as a family on May 12.

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“They are very much connected. I have no doubt that they will remain on excellent terms,” the source added.

For the unaware, Jason Biggs met Jenny Mollen on the set of their 2008 romcom movie My Best Friend’s Girl. They got engaged in January and eloped and married in April of the same year. In July, they held a second wedding ceremony in Napa, California, for forty close friends and family. Sid and Lazlo arrived in February 2014 and October 2017, respectively.

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