Megan Fox just opened up about motherhood and missing her children while traveling for her busy career in a new interview with Glamour. The Jennifer’s Body icon, 35, starred on the publication’s cover for its April issue and spoke about her difficult experience juggling a packed schedule and only being able to see her young sons for limited periods of time.
“It is hard,” she said. “I travel for long periods of time, and they have to attend school, which is what it is […] I wish I could take them out to travel with me, it would make things a lot easier.” The Transformers actress explained what an emotional toll distance away from them takes, and added, “I cry often, every new moon usually. I get in the bath and cry a lot about it because it is hard and not because of pressures that anybody else or society puts on you, but it is just hard being separated from them in that way. They are my DNA.”
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Fox shares 3 sons with her ex-husband Brian Austin Green, 48, including Journey River, 5, Bodhi Ransom, 8, and Noah Shannon, 9. Fox and Green filed for divorce in 2020 after being married for nearly 10 years. The Big Gold Brick star detailed their joint custody situation, and how the divorce made time spent with her children all the more difficult. “It’s hard to not feel obligated to be with them all the time or to constantly feel like I’m not doing a good enough job,” she said. “But I’m also separated from their father. So, I can only have them half of the time.”
“That just is what it is,” Fox continued. “And in some ways that allows me to have moments for myself, where I can live my life as me, not just always being someone’s mother and that’s nice, but you always struggle with the guilt, kind of feeling like, ‘I haven’t done enough.'” Fox is currently engaged to rapper Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker), 32, and the couple often speak of their blended family, as he is also father to daughter Casie Colson, 12, from his previous relationship.
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Fox also told Glamour about her inclusive and loving approach to gender identity while parenting, as her son Noah “started wearing dresses when he was about two,” and she wanted him to feel supported rather than shamed in his exploration as a child. Fox said she “bought a bunch of books that sort of addressed these things and addressed a full spectrum of what this is,” for him. “Some of the books are written by transgender children. Some of the books are just about how you can be a boy and wear a dress; you can express yourself through your clothing however you want,” she continued, “and that doesn’t even have to have anything to do with your sexuality.”
She stressed that her goal as a parent was to make her sons feel loved and appreciated for their individual talents, passions and skills and to never judge their journey or how they choose to express themselves through style and clothing. “From the time they were very young, I’ve incorporated those things into their daily lives so that nobody feels like they are weird or strange or different,” she explained.
“I can’t control the way other people react to my children. I can’t control the things that other children – that they go to school with – have been taught and then repeat to them. That’s also why I don’t really put my children on Instagram or social media,” she noted. Fox then sweetly added, “I’m so proud of my kids. Noah is an unbelievable pianist. He can learn Mozart’s concerto in an hour. I want people to see that, but I also don’t want the world to have access to this gentle soul and say all the things that we all know they’re going to say.”
