Reason why many believe Elon Musk is the father of Amber Heard's newborn twins

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Amber Heard announced that she’s now a mom of three on Mother's Day. 

She introduced her twins, son Ocean and daughter Agnes, in a heartwarming Instagram post featuring a photo of all three of her children’s feet.

Shortly after the 'Aquaman' actress made the post, speculation swirled that billionaire Elon Musk was probably the father.

Heard, who dominated the news cycle during her legal saga with Johnny Depp, likely welcomed the twins via surrogate, just like her first child, daughter Oonagh Paige, who was born in April 2021, as per the Daily Mail. 

“I am elated beyond words to celebrate the completion of a family I've strived to build for years,” she wrote in the caption of her Mother's Day post. 

Spanish law adds a twist to Amber Heard's use of surrogacy

Amber Heard’s journey to motherhood has been far from traditional. 

Since 2023, the actress has been living in Madrid, Spain — a country where surrogacy is illegal and “renunciation contracts” (where the birth mother agrees to hand over the baby) don’t hold up in court.

The leading theory is that she handled the surrogacy arrangements in the United States, where she still holds citizenship. “Becoming a mother by myself and on my own terms despite my own fertility challenges has been the most humbling experience of my life,” Heard shared in her Instagram post.

The babies are believed to have arrived a month prematurely, and the image of their skinny, delicate limbs seems to support that.

Still, as happy as Heard is to have completed her family, fans and netizens continue to wonder who the father is.

Why do people think Elon Musk is the father of Amber Heard's newborn twins?

Amber Heard’s friends insist she’s been single since late 2021, after ending things with cinematographer Bianca Butti (whose credits now include 'Challengers' and 'Queer'). While Heard has kept the father’s identity hush-hush — possibly even choosing an anonymous sperm donor — Elon Musk’s name rang across social media in record time.

It's worth noting that when it comes to making babies, Musk doesn’t miss. The world’s richest man — and a right-hand figure to President Donald Trump — has at least 14 children, possibly more. He’s even publicly declared it his mission to build some sort of a “legion" of children.

Earlier this year, it was revealed he fathered a child with conservative influencer Ashley St Clair, telling her they’d need to “use surrogates” to create as many offspring as possible.

Musk and Heard dated for 18 months after her split from Depp in 2016. Rumors have swirled ever since that the two froze embryos together. A bombshell statement from Jennifer Howell — a former colleague of Heard’s sister, Whitney Henriquez —reignited that theory during the 2022 Depp vs Heard defamation trial.

“Whitney told me.... [Amber] was in a legal battle with him [Musk] over the rights to embryos they had created together. He wanted to destroy them, and Amber tried to keep them to have a baby,” Howell stated in a sworn court document.

Is the Elon Musk-Amber Heard saga still not over?

Despite their rocky history, Elon Musk has always been oddly affectionate about Amber Heard.

When they split in August 2017, he insisted that they were “still friends, remain close, and love one another." According to Daily Mail columnist Alison Boshoff, this "could lend credence to the idea that he would support her in having his children."

But in his 2023 biography by Walter Isaacson, Musk described their relationship as “mind-bogglingly painful.” 

“It was brutal… I am often a fool, but especially for love," he told the author. His brother, Kimbal Musk, called Heard “toxic” and “a nightmare.”

Meanwhile, Heard told Isaacson, “I love him very much. Elon loves fire, and sometimes it burns him.”