Actress Megan Fox has returned to social media two months after giving birth to her fourth child in March, saying that though this was an unexpected pregnancy, it was still a “happy surprise.”
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly’s child, a daughter, was born in March, following a prior miscarriage which they openly grieved.
- Fox wrote a book about her miscarriage grief, while Kelly poured his grief into a number of songs.
- Fox had become unexpectedly pregnant with their baby at age 38 and chose to view her pregnancy as a “happy surprise.”
THE DETAILS:
Fox had previously given birth to three boys with ex-husband Brian Austin Green, but conceived her youngest child, a daughter, with her (sometimes) fiancé, rapper Machine Gun Kelly. Fox and Kelly had openly addressed the pain they experienced with a miscarriage, and announced later that same year that they were expecting another baby.
Writing on her Instagram stories, Fox shared a promotional video for her new series, “Overcompensating,” but pasted a message about her daughter over the video. “38 years old. Six weeks pregnant (unplanned but a happy surprise),” she wrote, adding, “Please stop listening to the patriarchy. Women are eternal light beings. We do not have an expiration date. Don’t let them rob you of your power…” In the past, Fox has called social media “sinister.”
It is likely that in referring to an “expiration date,” Fox was noting the fact that she became pregnant at age 38 — though her comments regarding “patriarchy” and “eternal light beings” seem somewhat more cryptic.
For his part, Kelly announced the birth of their little girl, whose name has still not been shared, on Instagram. “She’s finally here!! our little celestial seed,” he wrote alongside a video of him gripping her tiny hand.
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THE BACKSTORY:
Both Fox and Kelly have been open about their miscarriage grief, with Fox publishing a book of poetry. In publicity interviews, she discussed the loss.
“I’d never been through anything like that in my life. I have three kids, so it was very difficult for both of us, and it sent us on a very wild journey together and separately … trying to navigate, ‘What does this mean?’ and ‘Why did this happen?’” she said in an interview with Good Morning America.
In her book, she mentions an ultrasound of a baby at 10 weeks, 1 day. “maybe if you hadn’t… maybe if i had… ” she wrote. “I want to hold your hand / hear your laugh, but now / I have to say / goodbye.”
Fox also insinuated that she needed surgery to complete the miscarriage, writing that she could imagine her baby “as they rip you from my insides.”
“I will pay any price,” she continued. “Tell me please / what is the ransom / for her soul?”
Kelly likewise wrote about the pain of losing their baby in multiple songs, including “Last November”:
Could I save your life if I pressed rewind?
I wish I could go back to November last year
One day and another ten weeks, (one day and another ten weeks)
I never even got to hear your heart beat, (I never even got hear your heart beat)
At the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, he performed his song “Twin Flame,” which he dedicated to “the mother of my unborn child,” and featured the sound of a heartbeat.
Go to sleep, I’ll see you in my dreams
This changes everything, now I have to set you free
He again seemed to reference the miscarriage in “Don’t Let Me Go,” writing, “How can I live with the fact / That my hand wasn’t on her stomach when we lost the baby?”
After finding out they were expecting a rainbow baby — a common term for a child conceived following a miscarriage — Fox claimed, “nothing is ever really lost. welcome back.”
COMMENTARY:
Fox’s beliefs involve “astrology, metaphysical practices, meditations, as well as new and full moon practices,” and she has stated in the past that she and Kelly “consume each other’s blood on occasion for ritual purposes only” as “a passage or… for a reason.”
And given her “welcome back” remarks — insinuating that the baby she lost simply came back to her in a later pregnancy — she appears to believe in reincarnation as well.
While this thought may be a comfort when a child dies, it has also unfortunately been used by abortion advocates to justify intentional killing — as if abortion is simply telling the child it is not time yet, and to come back later at a more opportune time.
At Secular Pro-Life, Monica Snyder addressed this idea in 2024, writing, “… [M]any women choosing abortion have comforted themselves with the idea they might get a second chance with their aborted children someday in the future.” She added, “Speaking as an atheist, I find this view incredibly dark. I believe we each get one and only one opportunity to experience life, and abortion takes that opportunity away permanently.”
THE BOTTOM LINE:
A “rainbow baby” is a blessing, but isn’t a lost child who has come back. He or she is a unique biological individual who has an inherent right to life.
Fox’s remarks about an unexpected pregnancy, however, are encouraging. A new life coming into existence, even if “unplanned,” should indeed be seen as a happy surprise.
