Pregnancy is supposed to be a beautiful moment for a couple. You’re bringing a new life into the world. At the best of times, it’ll bring you closer together. However, things don’t always work out that way. Proof positive is the news that Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are now going their separate ways, just weeks after revealing they were expecting a baby together.
Relationships in Hollywood have been known to be fickle, but typically not this fickle. TMZ reported that Fox found material in Machine Gun Kelly’s phone that she found upsetting and made her want to leave the trip the two were on entirely. However, this is hardly the first time a couple breaks up while the woman is pregnant. In fact, it’s not even the first time Megan Fox has done it, as she reportedly broke up with Brian Austin Green, the father of her first three kids when she was pregnant with the third before the two decided to give their relationship a second try.
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She’s not the only one, though. In Hollywood, there are enough of those to even make a list. So, which famous celebrities broke up while pregnant? Here’s a list of the relationships that officially ended while a baby was on the way.
Yes, Megan Fox was already on this list even before she broke up with Machine Gun Kelly while pregnant with her fourth child! Fox and Brian Austin Green broke up when she was pregnant with their third son Journey in 2015 and filed for divorce. Fox later dropped the filing after Us Weekly reported she was “changing her mind a little bit.” However, the two would end up ultimately separating in 2020.
Italian businessman Flavio Briatore broke up with Klum right after he found out Klum was pregnant. Today the two are cordial, and Briatore is involved in the life of his daughter, Leni, but he was not involved for many years. Instead, Leni was adopted by Seal, who was in a relationship with Klum right after Briatore.
Moynahan reportedly didn’t realize she was pregnant until she and Brady had already split up. The two share a son, Jack. Brady went on to marry and later divorce Gisele Bündchen, with whom he shares two other children, Benjamin and Vivian.
Eddie Murphy famously dimpled Mel “Scary Spice” Brown in 2007, while she was pregnant with their daughter. He went as far as to deny the child was his until paternity tests proved otherwise. Murphy still took years to become involved in his child’s life.
In 2003 Crudup dumped long-time girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker for Claire Danes when Parker was pregnant with their son, William Atticus Parker.
Talk about bad timing. Terius Nah, otherwise known as The-Dream, filed for divorce from his wife Christina Milian nine days before she gave birth to their daughter in 2010.
Kevin Federline met Britney Spears while girlfriend Shar Jackson, and that was that. He would then leave Jackson for Spears, who he would go on to also have two children with.
Diplo was already with Katy Perry by the time his ex, Kathryn Lockhart, gave birth to their second son Lazer. You do the math.
Richards filed for divorce from Sheen when she was six months pregnant with their daughter Sami, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
In 2009 Kelis filed for divorce from Nas when she was seven months pregnant with their son. In 2018, the singer accused Nas of physical and mental abuse.
Model and actor Hurley dated millionaire Bing for 18 months before the two split up while she was pregnant. He claimed the child—Damian—wasn’t his and even said he’d provide for the child even when the DNA test proved the kid wasn’t his. Instead, the DNA test proved he was, indeed, the father.
Gossip Girl’s Kelly Rutherford filed for divorce from German businessman Daniel Giersch just a month after announcing she was pregnant with daughter Helena. A custody fight followed; one Rutherford lost.
This one’s infamous. Barber had an affair with a 23-year-old former NBC intern Traci Lynn Johnson, all while his wife of 11 years, Ginny Cha, was pregnant with twins, and then ended up leaving her when she was eight months pregnant.
