Megan Fox has responded to former US Congress candidate Robby Starbuck after he posted a photo of her children to Twitter, criticizing her for letting her sons wear dresses. Fox dismissed Starbuck as a “clout chaser” in an Instagram post, and condemned his attempt to score political points at her child’s expense.
“Irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame – never use children as leverage or social currency. Especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense,” Fox wrote. “Exploiting my child’s gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe.”
She went on to say that she has already been “burned at the stake” by men who are “insecure,” “narcissistic,” and “impotent,” concluding her message by telling Starbuck: “You fucked with the wrong witch.”
Fox’s ex-husband, actor Brian Austin Green, is the father of Noah, Bodhi, and Journey, and he told TMZ that Starbuck’s assertion that Fox “forces” the children to wear dresses is false. “There are only a few people in their world that can actually verify [whether] or not a story like this is true and I can tell you with absolute certainty it is not,” he said. “This person trying to claim this is true is a perfect example of someone with selfish motives that does not care about negatively affecting a parent child relationship.”
This is not the first time Fox has defended her choice to let her kids wear whatever they like— in particular her son Noah, who “started wearing dresses when he was about two”—and spoken about how difficult it can be to protect them from “mean, awful” people online.
“I knew when they were very young, I wanted to try to protect them however I could, especially limiting their exposure to the Internet,” she said earlier this year. “So far, we’ve done a really good job and we maintain their innocence in a lot of ways, but I know I can’t protect them forever, though I do have a child that suffers.”
“So I have a lot of worries about that, because I just wish that humanity was not like this,” she continued. “Although my kid is so brave and my child is so brave and I know that they’ve chosen this journey for a reason. It’s just hard as a mom… 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.”
Philip Ellis is a freelance writer and journalist from the United Kingdom covering pop culture, relationships and LGBTQ+ issues. His work has appeared in GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV.
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