Actress Jenny Mollen is itching to make sure everyone knows she didn’t realize she had head lice until she was already on her recent five-hour flight. Mollen, whose husband is “American Pie” actor Jason Biggs, posted a video on Instagram two weeks ago from what appears to be a first-class airline seat with a clear plastic bag partially wrapped around her head. Her traveling companion, a woman named Caroline, looked in her hair to find she had lice, she said.
“ ‘I’m not saying for sure you have lice, I’m just saying there’s absolutely no way you don’t’ - Caroline,” the video’s caption reads. The woman, at one point, jokingly raises a privacy screen between them. Mollen said she’d never had lice before, and blamed her itchy head on perimenopause, when a decrease in estrogen can lead to itchy, dry skin around the body.
Mollen said her head had been itching for about two weeks at that point. “And honestly, I think I know where I got it,” Mollen said in the video, holding back a laugh.”But I’m not gonna call that person out.
But she knows who she is.” Another video posted the next day showed Mollen receiving lice treatment, saying her home and two sons, Lazlo, 5, and Sid, 8, were also infested. Her husband got away with “like two eggs,” she said.
“The airplane seat — that’s a bummer for the person who sits there next,” she said in the follow-up video. “I want to be clear. I didn’t know I had lice until I was on the airplane.
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