Jenny Mollen, actress, writer and spouse to “American Pie” star Jason Biggs, is being blasted for flying whereas having head lice.
In a video recorded on board a flight and posted to her Instagram account on Oct. 29, Mollen, 45, stated she solely found she had lice as soon as she and her fellow passengers have been within the air.
Carrying a plastic bag partially protecting her hair, Mollen stated she thought her “itchy scalp” was brought on by “perimenopause symptoms.”
She seemed to be seated in first-class on a five-hour flight from Los Angeles to New York Metropolis.
“I’m on a plane with Caroline, and she just looked at my head,” she stated, referring to the particular person touring together with her sat subsequent to her. “And remember when I told you last week that I said my head was itchy and I thought I was having perimenopause symptoms? Guess what? I have f–king lice.”
“I can’t even deal. This is insane, you guys. This is insane. We have a five-hour flight. I’m wearing a bag that these [headphones] came in on my head,” she continued, exhibiting the headphone wrapper.
She went on to say that she has “never had lice in my life” and believes the parasitic bugs have been “living on me for two weeks,” given how lengthy her scalp had been itching.
Mollen’s feedback part rapidly blew up, with individuals criticizing her.
“You shouldn’t be on a plane and that bag should be covering ALL your hair!!!” one particular person commented.
One other wrote, “You better inform the flight attendants. I’d be freaking out on you if I was a passenger near you…”
“That’s disgusting. You’re going to spread that all over the plane,” another person stated. “You should be ashamed of yourself and you’re doing a video laughing about it.”
The next day, the mom of two posted one other video during which she revealed her home was “infested with lice.”
“We’re peeling out the lice,” she stated within the reel filmed at her residence. “Last night we put the shampoo on and killed everybody,” she continued, referring to the lice. “Now there are dead bodies and they’re being pulled from my head.”
Mollen stated that Biggs, 46, had solely “like two eggs” in his scalp. The couple’s younger sons, nonetheless, had full “infestations.”
Referring to her flight, she stated, “I know, 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. I thought that I was going through perimenopause and for about three weeks I was just itching my scalp.”
“Let’s just blame my husband for not looking closely enough at my head,” she continued, explaining that she requested Biggs to test her scalp for lice. In line with Mollen, Biggs advised her that she didn’t have lice.
