Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly's Twin Flame Is Extinguished—Look Back at Their Love Story From Start to Finish

They even got tattoos together. Is true love dead?

Megan Fox moved on from her marriage to Brian Austin Green with Machine Gun Kelly—and now she's moving on from her rebound, too.

After getting together in early 2020, the pair appears to have split as of Feb. 12, 2023, deleting photos of one another from their Instagram accounts, including a video of MGK (real name Colson Baker) proposing to her in 2022.

Let's take a deep-dive into Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly's relationship to see how they went from co-stars to offscreen partners, why she thought their love was karmic and about the tattoos they got together that they may well regret now.

Who is Megan Fox's ex-boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly?

MGK was born on April 22, 1990, in Houston, Texas. His parents were missionaries, moving around with their son frequently until finally putting down some roots in Denver, Colorado. MGK's said that he found solace in rap records and started rapping himself in 2007. In 2010, he signed with Bad Boy Records; since then, he's enjoyed the most chart success with his collaborative singles, including "Bad Things" featuring singer Camila Cabello and "My Ex's Best Friend" with Blackbear. His most recent LP, September's Tickets to My Downfall, was also his first to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Along the way, MGK's gotten embroiled in a few notorious, public feuds with other rappers, including Eminem and G-Eazy.

In 2014, Kelly made the leap to professional acting with a role in Beyond the Lights, a romantic drama starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as an up-and-coming musical artist. You may also recognize MGK from movies like Bird Box, Nerve and The King of Staten Island, which starred his IRL buddy, Pete Davidson.

Like Fox, Kelly's also a parent! As a teenager, MGK was in a relationship with Emma Cannon and they welcomed a daughter, Casie Colson Baker, in July 2009.

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Besides Cannon, MGK was also previously linked to Amber Rose, model Sommer Ray and Halsey.

How old is Megan Fox?

Fox turned 36 in May 2022, while MGK celebrated his 32st birthday the month before. This four-year age difference seems to be a big problem for some people, according to Fox, who's said that the "patriarchy" tries to apply sexist double standards to their steamy relationship. She rightly ranted during a July 2021 interview with InStyle, "The fact that he's four years younger than me, and people want to act like I'm dating a younger man. He's 31, and I'm 35." (However, she also admitted that they're a bit of an odd couple when she added, "Granted, he's lived like he's 19 his whole life, but he isn't 19.")

"No one would blink twice if George Clooney was dating someone four years younger," she continued. "Four years? Go f**k yourself. We would have been in high school together. That's so ridiculous that women are treated that way ... [I'm] very surprised by how archaic some of the mindsets still are in some people."

When did Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly meet?

Fox and MGK first met in March 2020 on the Puerto Rico set of their July 2021 crime thriller, Midnight in the Switchgrass, which also starred Bruce Willis. Filming lasted all of a week before it had to be shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but reportedly resumed in late June 2020.

When did Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly start dating?

Exactly how and when Fox and MGK made the leap to more-than-friends is a little unclear. During that Midnight in the Switchgrass production hiatus, Fox and Kelly were spotted together on several occasions in L.A. In May 2020, a source told E! News, "Megan has been working on a movie with Machine Gun Kelly and gotten close to him. They are hooking up and have been for a little while. She has something going on with Machine Gun Kelly that she is excited about. The movie will be starting up again soon and they are happy to get back to work and continue being together."

Later that month, Fox's ex-husband, Brian Austin Green, confirmed that he and Fox had been separated since 2019—but also insisted that Fox and Kelly were strictly platonic. "She met this guy, Colson, on set... I've never met him... Megan and I have talked about him," Green said on an episode of his podcast ... With Brian Austin Green. "They're just friends at this point... I don't want people to think her or he are villains or that I was a victim in any way."

Also that month, MGK's music video for "Bloody Valentine" was released and starred Fox as his onscreen love interest, who apparently enjoys torturing him!

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In the wake of the handsy (and footsie!) music video, MGK seemed to publicly confirmed that they'd become a couple. On June 15, 2020, he referenced "Bloody Valentine"'s lyrics by tweeting, "i'm calling you girlfriend, what the f---' life imitated art on that one."

That same month, a source told E! News about Fox's feelings for Kelly, "She has only been with Brian for many years and this is very different. She's into it."

On July 29, 2020, the couple made their relationship Instagram official in a since-deleted post when MGK shared a black-and-white selfie of the two of them along with the caption, "Waited for eternity to find you again."

Since then, the couple has revealed what they did on their first date. According to British GQ:

"For their first real date, MGK picked Fox up in a 1974 Cadillac convertible and they listened to Ella Fitzgerald. He drove her to a canyon’s edge where he had a friend waiting with a picnic set up on a blanket and a sea of roses. Then they drove down Sunset Boulevard to the Roxy Theatre, which was closed. ‘We went to the roof and played pop punk and made out,’ [MGK] recalls.'"

What does Machine Gun Kelly say about Megan Fox?

Machine Gun Kelly wouldn't stop gushing about Megan Fox when they were together.

"Our first kiss, she wouldn’t kiss me. We just put our lips right in front of each other and breathed each other’s breath and then she just left," MGK told British GQ in October 2021.

MGK has also publicly shared his adoration for Fox's feet. (To be fair, he's apparently off-handedly mentioned that he might have an actual foot fetish in the past.)

"For personal reasons, 'Bloody Valentine' might now be my favorite video," he told Teen Vogue. "It's no secret I think feet are beautiful, and I think Megan has the most beautiful feet that exist."

Beyond his love for her toes, MGK confessed on The Howard Stern Show, "I didn't know what [love] was until me and her made eye contact. That's when I was like, 'Whoa.' That was my first experience with being open to love and stuff like that. I definitely wasn't set up to believe that that's something that could ever exist."

He has cited Fox as a key influence on Tickets to My Downfall, which arrived about four or so months after they started dating.

"Tickets is essentially my diary, because I did fall in love during the making of this record, and I did become a better person. It's interesting," he told NME. "I think the universe caught onto me wanting to make a change. It was like: 'Maybe we won't make this a reality; maybe we'll make this ironic.' Instead of the downfall, go ahead and have the biggest rise of your f---ing life."

He also publicly credited Fox with "taking him out of the fast lane" in an interview with Nylon.

"Finding someone that can take you out of the fast lane and make sure that you're safe, because at any minute you can crash—I love that it can evolve into that," he explained.

But wait, there's more! Kelly continued to gush about Fox in her July 2021 InStyle profile. "I just want people to understand this is real... She is unlike any person I have ever met in my life," he told the outlet. "I don't think people get the opportunity to believe in real, great love, and that's what we have together." (Aww!)

What has Megan Fox said about Machine Gun Kelly?

One of the first things Fox said publicly about MGK came on Instagram when she wrote alongside a photo of him, "Achingly Beautiful Boy... My heart is yours." But she's gushed about him plenty of times aside from what she's said on social media.

In October 2021, Fox rhapsodized to British GQ that meeting MGK was "like meeting your own soul’s reflection. I recognize so much of myself in him, and vice versa, and that locked-up part of me that I had put away. I’d always felt like there was that thing missing, that I’d given up on, that you’re always seeking. But then you meet the person that completes that for you and you’re like, 'Oh, this is what my heart was searching for.' That’s what that beacon was this whole time.”

The month before that, Fox claimed their love was written in the stars. "I think part of [our connection] comes naturally because our relationship is so karmic that our spirit, our souls, are so intertwined on that higher plane, a lot of it is handled for us by our ancestors and the spirits and energies that are watching over us," she told CR Fashion Book.

Earlier in 2021, while promoting Midnight in the Switchgrass, the couple sat down with director Randall Emmett and his wife Lala Kent for an episode of their podcast, Give Them Lala ... With Randall. Fox expressed that at the movie's initial table read, she felt it in her gut that she and MGK had a connection.

"I was like, 'Who's going to play this role?' And he was like, 'Oh, we just got Machine Gun Kelly.' And immediately, I was like, 'Uh oh,'" Fox said. "I knew. I could feel that some wild s**t was going to happen to me from that meeting, but I wasn't yet sure what. I just felt it like, deep in my solar plexus that something was going to come from that."

Fox also added that she considers MGK to be her "twin flame," which she says is a soul that has "ascended to a high enough level that it can be split into two different bodies at the same time."

"We're actually two halves of the same soul," she explained in the episode. "I said that to him almost immediately, because I felt it right away."

Then, when MGK appeared on the cover of Nylon, Fox chimed in, saying, "Loving him is like being in love with a tsunami or a forest fire. The intensity of merging with him is just overwhelming, and the threat it poses is so powerful but so beautiful that you have no choice to surrender with reverence and with gratitude."

Of their first meeting, Fox also said, "I looked into his eyes [and] I felt the most pristine, most gentle, most pure spirit. My heart shattered immediately and I just knew that I was f**ked."

Are Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox engaged?

They were, but probably aren't anymore.

Fox and MGK made a bit of a spectacle over her engagement ring, with Machine Gun Kelly writing in a since-deleted Instagram video of the proposal, "I know tradition is one ring, but i designed it with Stephen Webster to be two: the emerald (her birth stone) and the diamond (my birth stone) set on two magnetic bands of thorns that draw together as two halves of the same soul forming the obscure heart that is our love. 1-11-2022 ✨."

Do Megan Fox and MGK have a kid?

Nope, although both of them are surely plenty busy in the parenting department: While Fox is a mom to the three boys she shares with ex-husband Green, Kelly's daughter Casie Colson Baker was born in July 2009. They've hinted that Fox had a miscarriage during their relationship.

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