Megan Fox calls out sexist criticism over her 4-year age gap with Machine Gun Kelly: 'We would have been in high school together'
- Megan Fox addressed criticism of her four-year age gap with Machine Gun Kelly on Wednesday.
- "Four years? Go f-- yourself. We would have been in high school together," she told Instyle.
- The actress said a man dating someone four years younger wouldn't receive the same scrutiny.
Megan Fox responded to criticism about her and Machine Gun Kelly's four-year age gap, condemning the scrutiny as sexist during her interview with Instyle on Wednesday.
"The fact that he's four years younger than me, and people want to act like I'm dating a younger man," the "Jennifer's Body" actress began, continuing, "He's 31, and I'm 35. Granted, he's lived like he's 19 his whole life, but he isn't 19."
If a male celebrity was with a partner four years younger than him, Fox said she doesn't believe the relationship would ruffle any feathers. The criticism she receives, she explained, is a double standard.
"No one would blink twice if George Clooney was dating someone four years younger," she said, using the 60-year-old actor, who married 43-year-old human-rights lawyer Amal Clooney in 2014, as an example.
She went on to address the naysayers head-on: "Four years? Go f--- yourself. We would have been in high school together. That's so ridiculous that women are treated that way."
Fox and Kelly, whose real name is Colson Baker, began dating in 2020 after getting to know each other as costars on the "Midnight in the Switchgrass" set in Puerto Rico. She recently told The Washington Post that she "instantly" knew that the Houston-born rapper was her "soul mate."
Prior to her relationship with the "Bad Things" singer, Fox was married to "Beverly Hills, 90210" actor Brian Austin Green, 47, for more than nine years before she separated from him in 2019 and filed for divorce the following year. The former couple shares three sons: Noah, 8; Bodhi, 7; and Journey, 4.
And although the ex-spouses split time caring for their children, Fox said she receives "so much judgment" for being a mother in a public relationship with Kelly. Every time she attends an event or is seen out of the house without her kids, someone asks her where they are, she told Instyle.
"Do you ask their dad when he's out?" Fox asked.
The actress answered her own question: "No, because you don't expect a dad to be with the kids all the time, but I'm supposed to not be seen and be at home with my kids. They have another parent. I have to leave and sometimes I don't want them photographed and they don't come with me."