CEBU, Philippines - Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green are going forward as solo acts.
After 11 years together, five of them as a married couple, “Megan has separated from Brian,” an insider reveals exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly. “They decided on it six months ago.”
Their romance has recently been plagued with issues. Though sources remain vague on the exact cause of their split, “things have been rocky,” says one source close to the parents of sons Noah, 2, and Bodhi, 18 months. (Green, 42, also has son Kassius, 13, from a previous relationship.)
At the height of their relationship, they couldn’t help but gush over one another. When the “Beverly Hills 90210” alum guest-starred on her ABC sitcom “Hope & Faith” in 2004, “it was like magic,” admitted Fox, who was just 18 at the time.
But by February 2009, Fox and Green, 13 years her senior, called off their three-year engagement. “Marriage isn’t a realistic goal for someone who is 23,” the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” actress, 29, told Us in June of that year. Still, the time apart worked in their favor. Green re-proposed in June 2010 and just 24 days later they said “I do” at the Four Seasons in Hawaii, their favorite vacation destination.
“I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life,” Green said at the time of their beachside vows. “It was the absolute perfect start to what we hope will be an amazing life together.”
Though they are no longer a couple, Megan and Brian have remained amicable. “They’re on friendly terms for the sake of the kids,” an insider told Us Weekly. “They just want to do their own thing.”
In 2012, Megan gushed about marriage in a Cosmopolitan cover story. “We’ve had obstacles, and we’ve overcome them. I truly feel like he’s my soulmate,” she said of her husband. “I don’t want to sound corny or cliché, but I do believe we are destined to live this part of our lives together.”
The next year, she told Marie Claire U.K., “We are tolerant of each other and we try to be patient with each other, and I don’t try to turn him into me and he knows not to try to turn me into him.”
So, what went wrong? “They fight about her career,” a source tells Us Weekly of Fox, who spent the summer shooting the sequel to “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” in New York City. “He would prefer she focus on the family more than being obsessed with getting roles.” (FREEMAN)