Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green’s Parenting Quotes While Raising Noah, Bodhi and Journey

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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green's Parenting Quotes While Raising Noah, Bodhi and Journey

Coparenting their cuties! Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green welcomed three children before they split in 2020. The former couple became parents in 2012 when their first child, Noah, arrived, two years after their Hawaii nuptials. Bodhi and Journey were born in 2014 and 2016, respectively. Between babies No. 2 and 3, the Transformers star filed for divorce from the BH90210 alum — but the exes reconciled ahead of their youngest child’s arrival. In May 2020, the duo ultimately called it quits. “I will always love her,” the actor, who also shares son Kassius with ex Vanessa Marcil, said during an episode of his “…With Brian Austin Green” podcast at the time. “And I know she will always love me, and I know as far as a family what we have built is really cool and really special." While the California native moved on with Dancing With the Stars’ Sharna Burgess later that same year, Fox got engaged to Machine Gun Kelly in January 2022. [jwplayer WoEYcDbe-zhNYySv2] “In July of 2020 we sat under this banyan tree. We asked for magic,” the actress captioned her Instagram reveal at the time. “We were oblivious to the pain we would face together in such a short, frenetic period of time. Unaware of the work and sacrifices the relationship would require from us but intoxicated off of the love. And the karma. Somehow a year and a half later, having walked through hell together, and having laughed more than I ever imagined possible, he asked me to marry him. And just as in every lifetime before this one, and as in every lifetime that will follow it, I said yes. …and then we drank each other’s blood 1.11.22." In a post of his own, the rapper wrote, “Yes, in this life and every life. Beneath the same branches we fell in love under, I brought her back to ask her to marry me. I know tradition is one ring, but I designed it with Stephen Webster to be two ... as two halves of the same soul forming the obscure heart that is our love." The Texas native, who has a daughter of his own named Casie, met Fox's kids in 2020, a source exclusively told Us Weekly in September of that year. “Brian is pretty protective of them,” the insider added. Keep scrolling to see what Fox and Green have had to say about parenting Noah, Bodhi and Journey over the years. [podcast_block]

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New Parents

"We are humbled to have the opportunity to call ourselves the parents of this beautiful soul and I am forever grateful to God for allowing me to know this kind of boundless, immaculate love," Fox captioned her eldest child's Facebook debut in 2012.

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Big Bro

Kassius was "indifferent" to his stepbrother at first, Fox told Daily Mirror in December 2012, saying, "He's not experiencing any sort of jealousy or competitiveness, but he's not excited because he just wants to go play video games."

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Helping Hand

She went on to tell the outlet, "It's a lot of work and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities. I had no idea how difficult babies could be. ... Two weeks ago I said to Brian, 'We have to get a night nurse or we're going to get a divorce because somebody's got to sleep in this house or we're going to kill each other.'"

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Gushing About Her Guy

"The whole thing has been overwhelming because I didn't realize you could love something so much, and I know people always say that but I love him so much it hurts," Fox told E! News of her firstborn in December 2012. "It's an interesting feeling to have because I never felt that before. He's getting to that place where he's smiling and he's almost ready to laugh, and I can't wait for that baby laugh that almost makes you feel like you can fly, like your heart's going to explode."

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Pregnancy Plans

Fox told Ellen DeGeneres in May 2014 that neither of her children were "planned," joking, "I mean, we can't let Brian near me anymore."

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Attached at the Hip

"When you have babies, you don’t really have a life,” Fox told Chelsea Handler in August 2014. “Every minute is dedicated to someone else. You don’t even get to poop alone. You have to take the baby with you.”

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Roughhousing

"[Journey]’s just very calm and kind, and then my older two are wild beasts and they’re always fighting,” Fox told Extra in November 2017. “Everything is a weapon. You can’t have forks, forks are weapons … They’re always trying to kill each other, and it’s so stressful because the baby gets stressed out because he doesn’t understand what’s going on.”

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Stamp of Approval

"I've heard from some people that they don't agree with [Noah] wearing dresses. To them I say, 'I don't care,'" Green said during a September 2017 Today show appearance. "He's 4, and if he wants to wear it, then he wears it. Dresses or goggles or slippers or whatever. It's his life. They're not my clothes. ... I feel like at 4 or 5, that's a time when he should be having fun. He's not harming anyone wearing a dress. So if he wants to wear a dress, awesome! Good on him."

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Parenting Tactics

"I’m much more the bad cop than she is, and at first, that sort of was an issue for us," the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum told Us in September 2019. "Now, we listen to each other and we talk to each other about things. If she doesn’t like something or I don’t, we listen to it. We coparent well, I think, right now. She is a fantastic mom and a fantastic wife.”

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Doing it Differently

"I am a much stricter [parent],” the actor told Us two months later. “I’m a bit more OCD. To me, I would rather have no glitter at all in the house. To Megan, she doesn’t care, so that was an area where we bumped heads. ... We both appreciate what she's really good at and what she does well, and I appreciate what she does better than myself."

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Playful Parents

Fox told Us in December 2019 about "relinquishing control" as a mom, explaining, "They were born to be who they are. ... It’s my job to support that process, not to get involved and micromanage and mold them into what I think they should be.”

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Calling it Quits

"No, [I'm] not [having] more kids," Green told Us in February 2020, noting, "The kids I have right now are fine. It’s enough!"

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Cordial Coparenting

The exes' parenting style was "no different" post-split, Green explained to Us in August 2020. "When one person is traveling and working, the other person will step in and take care of things at home and the kids, and this situation is no different. ... Megan loves her kids, would do anything for them, and has and will continue to," he added.

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Long Locks

The Anger Management alum defended his kids' long hair in September 2020, writing via Instagram: "The fact is my boys have and like long hair. In my opinion they are beautiful and will still be and possibly be mistaken for girls if they wore matching short and tshirt combos and had short hair. Some people like boys and men with long hair. Some people don’t. Both opinions are OK."