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Trust a child to give people like Megyn Kelly the clapback they need to make several seats and stop commenting on things they know nothing about. After Kelly shared her thoughts on her Sirius XM show The Megyn Kelly Show about Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged and confirmed survivors of sexual abuse, she commented on their ages.
At one point, she said that abusing a teenager is not as awful, in her eyes, as abusing a much younger child.
“There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old,” Kelly explained. Afterward, there was some blow-back on social media. And now, a 14-year-old girl on TikTok, Eloise, released her own video to call out Kelly for her comments and to share just how young 14, 15, and any age of a legal child is.
Because apparently, Kelly needs a massive refresher course in basic morals.
@cheeringforchange Here’s a reminder from an actual 14 year old about what a child even IS. If adults are out here debating the “acceptable age” of abuse, then kids aren’t the ones who need to grow up. ✨sources✨ https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2256 https://apnews.com/article/megyn-kelly-epstein-pedophile-comments-people-30b26bfef2f648e29521c67d76a74af3 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/megyn-kelly-criticized-remarks-epstein-victims-age-2025-02-12/ @The Megyn Kelly Show #megynkelly #protectchildren #childhood #predator ♬ original sound – eloise
The teen says that “kids aren’t the ones who need to grow up” in response to Megyn Kelly.
During Kelly’s The Megyn Kelly Show episode, she did not condone Epstein’s crimes and she did admonish him as “disgusting.” But that does not change the fact that she also said, “He wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds” as a way to explain her view of younger teenage girls and “barely legal types” being what Epstein allegedly preferred as an abuser.
In 14-year-old Eloise’s video, she clearly speaks to Kelly directly and shares what young and “barely legal” teenage girls are like, who they are, and essentially why Kelly is so so wrong in her comments.
Out of the mouths of babes, am I right?
Eloise says in her video that she first viewed the topic as one that children shouldn’t even speak out about. However, she adds, she figured Kelly needed “an actual reality check from a literal child.” I mean, are we all snapping out fingers for Eloise or what?
“People in my grade are turning 15 right now. Some of us still have baby faces, some of us still have braces. Some of us still call our parents when we’re scared at night,” Eloise says.
“Some of us still look like middle schoolers, because we basically are. And the fact that a grown woman needs a teenager to explain that is honestly terrifying. Here’s the part you seem confused about. Under federal law, anyone under 18 is a child, no asterisk. No, ‘but they hit puberty.’ No, ‘older kids don’t count.’ Anyone under 18 is a child.”
And this girl left no crumbs.
Megyn Kelly doesn’t consider Epstein a pedophile because his victims were 15 years or older pic.twitter.com/5jhHkncF0T
— Prez (@PrezLives2022) November 13, 2025
The point of Kelly’s comments seems unclear. Was she saying that Epstein was disgusting, but not the worst kind of disgusting there is because he preyed on teenage girls barely in puberty?
Or did she mean something else that is incredibly inappropriate? Just checking.
“Anyone under 18 is a CHILD!” Someone commented under Eloise’s TikTok.
“Heck, anyone under 21 is a child. Thank you for speaking up.”
Another user wrote, “Megan Kelly getting OWNED by this amazing 14 [year old] youth! Thank you for your facts and your presentation of them!”
Others agreed in the comments that a teenager should not have the responsibility of educating an adult about the age of consent, the dangers of human trafficking, and the reality of who is targeted and who needs to be protected.
“You are still a baby,” one of the other commenters wrote under Eloise’s video. “Thank you for using your voice. You give hope for our future.”
According to the Department of Justice, Epstein’s survivors were as young as 14 at the time of their abuse. Before he died by suicide in his cell in 2019, Epstein was convicted of abusing and trafficking dozens of young girls.
Kelly’s response to the ages isn’t the only problem, but it’s one that kids like Eloise feel the need to speak up about.
