Jenny Mollen is setting the record straight.
The City of Likes author, who is married to actor Jason Biggs, responded to a story that she intentionally rode on a five-hour flight while infected with head lice.
“Who would willingly sit w lice on their head for a five hour flight if they knew they had lice before boarding!??!” Mollen wrote on her Instagram Story on Nov. 14. “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!”
In the clip, which Mollen posted to Instagram on Oct. 29, the 45-year-old shared that her friend had checked her head on the flight when she discovered the lice, which she initially thought was an itching caused by “perimenopause symptoms.”
“I have f--king lice and honestly, I think I know where I got it,” she said at the time. “I’m not gonna call that person out, but she knows who she is.”
Mollen, who is mom to sons Sid, 10, and Lazlo, 7, with the American Pie star, added that she was wearing a plastic bag over part of her hair that she acquired from the in-flight headphones she received in an attempt to protect other passengers.
“I’ve never had lice in my life, and I don’t know what to do,” she noted. “I’ve been itching for two weeks. So they’ve been living on me for two weeks.”
On Oct. 30 she shared an update from home, saying her house was “infested with lice.”
“I had an infestation,” she added. “Sid had an infestation. Lazlo had an infestation. Jason had, like, two eggs.”
However, she placed the blame for the length of her infection on the Orange Is the New Black star.
“Let’s just blame my husband for not looking closely enough at my head,” she said. “Because I said to him, ‘Do I have lice? Do you see anything?’ And he said, ‘No.’”
As for her thoughts on being on aboard a plane and potentially infecting other passengers, Mollen said, “The airplane seat, that’s a bummer for whoever sits there next. I want to be clear, I didn’t know that I had lice until I was on the airplane.”
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Mila Kunis & Ashton Kutcher
Back in July 2021, the couple sparked a conversation about bathing habits when they shared their preference on the Armchair Expert podcast. "I don't wash my body with soap every day," Mila shared. As for her husband, "I wash my armpits and my crotch daily, and nothing else ever," Ashton admitted.
Jake Gyllenhaal
"More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times," the Donnie Darko alum told Vanity Fair in 2021. "I do also think that there's a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves."
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
"Nope, I'm the opposite of a 'not washing themselves' celeb," the Jungle Cruise star revealed in a 2021 post on X, then known as Twitter. "Shower (cold) when I roll outta bed to get my day rollin'. Shower (warm) after my workout before work. Shower (hot) after I get home from work. Face wash, body wash, exfoliate and I sing (off key) in the shower."
Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell
"We bathed our children every single night—prior to bed is like the routine," Dax shared on The View in 2021. "And then somehow, they just started going to sleep on their own without the routine, and by George, we had to start saying, 'Hey, when's the last time you bathed them?'"
Added Kristen, "I'm a big fan of waiting for the stink. Once you catch a whiff, that's biology's way of letting you know you need to clean it up."
Bethenny Frankel
"Is it ok if I admit that my daughter bathing daily is a firm rule in my house?" the former Real Housewives of New York City star shared on X in 2021."Bathing is cleansing, relaxing & helps with sleep. I have instilled in her a good hygiene routine since birth. Am I canceled for this radical approach?"
Jason Momoa
"I'm not starting any trends, I shower, trust me, I shower," the Aquaman star told Access Hollywood in 2021. "I'm Aquaman, I'm in the f--king water, don't worry about it. I'm Hawaiian, we got saltwater on me, we good."
Brad Pitt
While filming Inglourious Basterds, the actor offered some unconventional hygiene tips for his costars. "He shared that when you're sweating and don't have time to take a shower, you just take a baby wipe and rub it under your armpits," friend Eli Roth told People in 2009. "After a scene, Brad had to get next to me for a close-up shot, and he said, ‘Damn, you're ripe.'" I said, ‘I didn't have time to shower.' He said, ‘Baby wipes, man, baby wipes.'"