Megan Fox’s Most Epic Clap Backs Through the Years: Shutting Down Mom-Shamers, Firing Back at Trolls, More
19.11.2022 - 04:03
/ usmagazine.com
Not holding back. Megan Fox will go above and beyond to protect her children from negative comments — especially when it comes to adults on social media.
“I don’t want [my son Noah] to ever have to read that s—t because he hears it from little kids at his own school who are like, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,'” the Jennifer’s Body star told InStyle in July 2021, revealing that her eldest son has been the target of “mean, awful people and cruel people,” because he enjoys wearing dresses.
Fox — who shares Noah, Bodhi and Journey with ex-husband Brian Austin Green — has long been open about supporting her children express themselves in whatever way they please. “I send him to a really liberal, hippie, school, but even there, here in California, he still has little boys going, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,’ or, ‘Boys don’t wear pink,'” the Transformers actress revealed during a September 2019 appearance on The Talk. “So we’re going through that now. I’m trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says.”
Three years later, Fox explained that while it was “hard as a mom” to see Noah experience bullying as a result of his choices, she and the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum wanted to do whatever they could to support him. “My kid is so brave, my child is so brave and I know that they’ve chosen this journey for a reason,” she told Glamour UK at the time. “I have a lot of worries about that because I just wish that humanity was not like this.”
Though she admitted that she “can’t control the way other people react” to her little one, the New Girl alum made it clear that there was nothing wrong with supporting her kids’ self-expression.
“Noah is an unbelievable pianist. He can learn Mozart’s concerto in an hour,” Fox told the