Jenny Mollen jokingly called her 12-year-old son Sid a “predator” while addressing the “weird” backlash to their intimate bed photos.
“If you knew my son, he’s really the predator, not me,” the 47-year-old actress told host Amanda Hirsch on Tuesday’s episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast.
“He’s the one who’s f—ing all over me,” Mollen continued. “I’ve been trying to lock him out of the bathroom for the last 12 years. He just wants my undivided [attention].”
Last month, Mollen, who shares sons Sid and Lazlo, 8, with estranged husband Jason Biggs, sparked outrage for posting two Instagram photos of her lying on top of her oldest child in bed.
Her controversial caption read, “Your eldest son will be the most toxic boyfriend you ever have.”
On the podcast, Mollen doubled down on her post and revealed that Sid knows about the drama surrounding it.
“He’s like a little spider monkey on me, and I’m in trouble,” she said. “And now he’s like, ‘Get away from me, you molester,’ just to f–k with me.”
The “Angel” actress also explained that she thinks the timing of her and Biggs’ split played a role in the backlash she got.
“I think if I made this joke a month, or two months ago, it would have played differently,” she said, noting that if she “was publicly with a man” when she shared the photos on May 25, things may have transpired differently.
“And I think that there’s something about a woman who is not attached to a man that somehow reads as a threat, dangerous,” she added.
Earlier in the interview, Mollen elaborated on why she called her oldest son “toxic” in her caption.
“It’s like, this is the joke I’ve been making forever,” she shared. “Like, I’m in this dysfunctional relationship with a guy who’s like, ‘Can you hold my head while I vomit into the toilet?’ ‘Can you give me a full body massage before bed?’ ‘Can you be a dear and put more ice in my water bottle?’ Like, this is the treatment.”
“He’s the dictator,” she jokingly continued. “And I live in this autocratic regime where I have to like … it’s like, thumbs up or thumbs down. Off with my head if I f—ing serve you sun-butter.”
Mollen previously defended the intimate bed photos and caption in a June 8 Substack essay, explaining that the pictures were taken after Sid came home from a weekend away.
“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 said.
On the podcast, Mollen clarified that the pair’s relationship is “still romantic” and that they continue to be “amazing” co-parents to their two sons.
