Megan Fox used her new book to open up about two emotional topics: her miscarriage and abusive relationships. In the book of poetry, called Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, she tells her pregnancy loss story through poetry. Megan, 37, had the miscarriage at about 10 weeks. She conceived the baby with Machine Gun Kelly.
"I want to hold your hand / hear your laugh," she wrote about the baby. Later, she wrote, "but now / I have to say / goodbye" and "I will pay any price. Tell me please / what is the ransom / for her soul?"
Megan also opened up about the miscarriage when speaking to Good Morning America. “I’ve never been through anything like that in my life. I have three kids, so it was very difficult for [me and Machine Gun Kelly] 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 during the interview.
In another part of the book, she wrote about the ultrasound of her baby at 10 weeks. "Maybe if you hadn't… maybe if i had…" she wrote about the difficult experience.
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Miscarriage is not the only tough topic Megan tackles in her book. She also writes about abusive relationships. "Throughout my life, I have been in at least one physically abusive relationship and several psychologically very abusive relationships," she told Good Morning America.
Although the book is inspired by her experiences, she says it's "not an exposé that I wrote, or a memoir."
When writing about romance, Megan does not shy away from the toxic or "complicated" elements. "For most of us it's not a fairy tale. Relationships are not pretty. They are ugly. Sometimes they are a war," she told People. "But through a wound enters an opportunity to grow and become a stronger more whole version of yourself."
She does not refer to people in the book by name. In one poem, she writes about an abusive relationship: "mornings after you would hurt me / i would wake up and make your coffee / put on a sweatshirt so you wouldn't have to look at the bruises you left."
Megan felt that she had to tell her story. She told Good Morning America, "I just think it was something inside of me that had to come out because it was gonna make me sick."
But some of the stories that she wanted to tell didn't make it into the book because she thought they were too dark or too personal, especially because she is "a known person" and people pay attention to her personal life.
Since she is used to being in the public eye, she's not worried about how people will react to her poems, she shared with People.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of domestic abuse, you can find help and support at DVIS.org, the National Domestic Abuse Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or by contacting your local women's shelter domesticshelters.org.
