Jenny Mollen Responds to Backlash After Taking Flight with Head Lice
Jenny Mollen is addressing the recent outrage she caused online.
Back in October 29, the 45-year-old City of Likes author, who is married to Jason Biggs, shared a video on Instagram of her friend checking her head after she had some itching, which she initially believed was caused by “perimenopause symptoms.”
The friend discovered that Jenny actually had lice on her head.
Keep reading to find out more…“I have f–king lice and honestly, I think I know where I got it,” Jenny said while wearing a plastic bag over part of her head in an attempt to stop the lice from spreading. “I’m not gonna call that person out, but she knows who she is.”
“I’ve never had lice in my life, and I don’t know what to do,” Jenny noted. “I’ve been itching for two weeks. So they’ve been living on me for two weeks.”
Keep reading to find out more…After sharing the video, many took to the comments and slammed Jenny for traveling with lice.
“Why are you on a plane with lice????????” one person wrote, while another added, “Well I certainly would not be on a plane with untreated lice announcing it. Not cool.”
Then on November 14, Jenny took to her Instagram Story to clarify that she didn’t knowingly board the plane with lice.
“Who would willingly sit w lice on their head for a five hour flight if they knew they had lice before boarding!??!” Jenny wrote. “I guess you didn’t watch the vid because I didn’t know I had lice until I had a head exam later that night!”
The day after she shared the first video, Jenny shared an update, saying that her and Jason‘s two sons Sid, 10, and Lazlo, 7, were also “infested with lice.”
“I had an infestation,” Jenny said. “Sid had an infestation. Lazlo had an infestation. Jason had, like, two eggs.”
However, she still put the blame on Jason, saying, “Let’s just blame my husband for not looking closely enough at my head. Because I said to him, ‘Do I have lice? Do you see anything?’ And he said, ‘No.’”