Megan Fox, a prominent figure in Hollywood since she was 15, has had a romantic life as public and intense as her career. The actress has been notably open about her approach to love and has often partnered with those who match her energy.
While promoting her 2023 poetry collection, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, Fox revealed on Good Morning America that while her relationships serve as inspiration, some partners will remain anonymous. “This is not an exposé that I wrote or a memoir,” she clarified. “But throughout my life, I have been in at least one physically abusive relationship and several psychologically very abusive relationships. I have only been publicly connected to a few people, but I shared energy with…who were horrific people. And also very famous—very famous—people. But no one knows that I was involved with those people.”
Here is a timeline of Megan Fox’s known dating history.
Ben Leahy
Before her rise to fame, Fox dated her high school sweetheart, Ben Leahy, for three years. In a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, she described their teenage romance, which ended when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. “I loved him,” she said. “He was very sweet and wonderful, really tall and big with a perfect body, and he was a badass. I was totally drawn to him.”
David Gallagher
Around 2004, following her role in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Fox began dating 7th Heaven actor David Gallagher. He accompanied her to the film’s premiere, but their relationship concluded after about a year.
Shia LaBeouf
During a break from her relationship with future husband Brian Austin Green, Fox was briefly involved with her Transformers co-star, Shia LaBeouf. In a 2011 interview with Details magazine, LaBeouf confirmed their on-set romance. “Look, you’re on the set for six months with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them,” he explained. “The time I spent with Megan was our own thing.”
Fox later confirmed their “romantic relationship” during a 2018 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, stating, “I love him; I have never been really quiet about that, I love him.”
Brian Austin Green
Fox’s longest public relationship was with actor Brian Austin Green. They met in 2006 on the set of the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith when she was 18. “I liked him right away,” she told New York Times Magazine in 2009, recalling an instant connection. “I remember literal electricity shooting through me… It was like magic.”
Green admitted he was initially hesitant. “I kept pushing her away early on because I was like, ‘I don’t want a relationship,'” he explained on KFC Radio in 2019. He only realized his true feelings when she considered dating someone else.
The couple’s relationship was turbulent. They became engaged in 2008, called it off, and then reconciled, marrying in Hawaii on June 24, 2010. They welcomed two sons, Noah Shannon in 2012 and Bodhi Ransom in 2014. In August 2015, they announced their separation, and Fox filed for divorce.
However, the pair reconciled again, and in April 2016, it was revealed they were expecting their third child. Their son, Journey River, was born that August. In April 2019, Fox filed to dismiss their divorce proceedings.
The reconciliation was short-lived. Green confirmed in May 2020 on his podcast, …with Brian Austin Green, that they had separated at the end of 2019 after Fox expressed a need for independence. Fox officially filed for divorce for a second time in November 2020, and it was finalized in February 2022.
Reflecting on the marriage on the Call Her Daddy podcast in 2024, Fox admitted, “I was not a great girlfriend to Brian. I’ll be very honest. I was young and really should not have been in a relationship of that level of commitment… I did a lot of, like, falling in love with other people all the time.”
Machine Gun Kelly
Fox met musician Machine Gun Kelly (born Colson Baker) on the set of the film Midnight in the Switchgrass in early 2020, as her marriage to Green was ending. Their connection was immediate and intense. During a podcast interview, Fox described him as her “twin flame.”
“I knew right away that he was what I call a twin flame,” she said. “Instead of a soulmate, a twin flame is actually where a soul has ascended into a high enough level that it can be split into two different bodies at the same time. So we’re actually two halves of the same soul.”
The couple announced their engagement in January 2022, revealing they sealed the moment by drinking each other’s blood. However, their relationship has been marked by public volatility. In February 2023, Fox sparked breakup rumors by unfollowing Kelly on Instagram and posting a cryptic lyric from Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Sources confirmed they had a major fight, and though they didn’t officially end the engagement then, they began working through “serious issues.”
On the Call Her Daddy podcast in March 2024, Fox confirmed they had, at one point, called off their engagement. She announced she would no longer comment on their relationship status publicly, stating, “[He] is what I refer to as being my ‘twin soul,’ and there will always be a tether to him, no matter what… Beyond that, I’m not willing to explain.”
In November 2024, Fox announced she was pregnant with their first child, posting a photo with the caption, “Nothing is ever really lost. welcome back.” The following month, TMZ reported the couple had split again after a dispute during a trip to Colorado.
They welcomed their daughter, Saga Blade Fox-Baker, on March 27, 2025. In a July 2025 interview, Kelly explained the name’s significance, connecting it to their previous pregnancy loss and her journey to them. “She’s an epic story, and that’s what Saga means,” he said.
Since their daughter’s birth, sources report the two are co-parenting effectively, but a romantic reconciliation is not planned. “She plans on co-parenting with Colson, but that’s it,” a source told People. “She won’t be getting back together with him.”
