How Megan Fox is raising her sons to be ‘different’ from men she’s dated

While promoting her new book of poetry, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, Megan Fox sat down with WWD to discuss how she’s raising her sons to be “not like” the men she’s dated and the ways that she’s emotionally connecting with the three sons she shares with her ex-husband, Brian Austin Green, and teaching them to be transparent, honest, and ready to be emotional and open with their future partners.

Although the actress doesn’t name any of the men she’s writing about in her poetry, she’s open and vulnerable about her experiences with men that she’s been with through her life and says the book is for people who can relate to some of the relationship experiences she’s had while keeping the focus on her words and feelings, not on identifying or shaming the men who inspired her pieces.

"It’s very important for me to raise boys who are able to have a very deep emotional intimacy with their partner. It’s very important to me that they are not liars, that they are able to be fully transparent and honest and respectful and experience at some point in their life, I don’t expect them when they’re 16 to have a sacred love, but I do expect them at some point to get to that place, because I am their first introduction into women and the way that I love them is going to influence the way they are allowed to love others when they go out into a relationship."

The sons she’s referencing that might eventually pick up and read her book of poems — Journey, 7, Bodhi, 9, and Noah, 11, — are the three she had with her ex-husband, actor Brian Austin Green — and who she now co-parents with.

Green and his new fiancee, Sharna Burgess, appeared on Jana Kramer’s podcast in September 2023 and discussed how they’ve managed to make co-parenting work with Megan Fox. Burgess stated that she’s “very much a part of [their] life” and said, “We’ll always be connected because of the kids. So we are all family. So there’s no bad feelings there to be like that cannot be in this house.”

Megan Fox’s book, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, was released in November 2023 and also explores her journey to learn to be more “selfish,” a word she said she previously hated using, and the two miscarriages she suffered with her new beau, Machine Gun Kelly.