Actor Jenny Mollen Learns She Has Lice After Boarding A Plane

No one is itching to find out they have head lice, but actor Jenny Mollen discovered her infestation in a truly terrible situation: right after she boarded a five-hour flight from Los Angeles to New York City.

Mollen, 45, the wife of “American Pie” star Jason Biggs, recently revealed her head-scratching discovery via an Instagram post filmed from her plane seat on Oct. 29, in which she is shown wearing a plastic bag on her head.

“I’m on a plane with Caroline, and she just looked at my head. And remember when I told you last week that I said my head was itchy and I thought I was having perimenopause symptoms?” Mollen related, before adding the stinger.

“Guess what? I have fucking 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 came in on my head,” she said, pointing to some airline headphones.

Although 6 million to 12 million people each year are infested by head lice, according to the Cleveland Clinic, Mollen insisted she’d never had lice.

She said that because her head has been itchy for a while, she figured the lice have been “living on me for two weeks.”

You can see the video below.

Some of Mollen’s followers called her out for going on a cross-country flight with head lice.

“Well I certainly would not be on a plane with untreated lice announcing it. Not cool,” one person wrote, while another warned, “Do you know the airline can sue you to [de-lice] the whole plane I would take those down real quick.”

Another said, “That’s disgusting. You’re going to spread that all over the plane. You should be ashamed of yourself and you’re doing a video laughing about it.”

The next day, Mollen posted another video where she revealed that her whole house is “infested with lice.”

She added: “We’re peeling out the lice. Last night we put the shampoo on and killed everybody,” she said, referring to the bugs, not her family. “Now there are dead bodies and they’re being pulled from my head.”

Mollen said that although her husband had only two eggs in his hair, their two sons had full infestations.

She also apologized for going on the cross-country flight with lice.

“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,” she said.

She then jokingly threw her husband under the bug, er, bus, for not noticing the lice after she asked him to check.

“Let’s just blame my husband for not looking closely enough at my head,” she said.