Brian Austin Green and Sharna Burgess celebrated Christmas with their kids by their side.
In a sweet snap posted via Instagram Wednesday, December 25, Green, 51, wore a white T-shirt and red printed pajama pants as he kneeled on the floor while helping his youngest son, Zane Walker. Green and Burgess’ 2-year-old had his back to the camera, but his matching pajamas were visible.
Behind the Beverly Hills, 90210 actor, Green and his ex-wife Megan Fox’s children Noah, 12, Bodhi, 10, and Journey, 8, stood by the Christmas tree — with two of them sporting the same loungewear.
“Merry Christmas everyone,” Burgess, 39, wrote via her Instagram Story, alongside heart and tree emojis. (Green popped the question to Burgess in July 2023.)
Green’s eldest son, Kassius Lijah, 22, whom he shares with ex-girlfriend Vanessa Marcil, was not in the photograph. (Green and Marcil called it quits in 2003 after four years together.)
Over the years, Green has been candid about navigating coparenting with his exes. “The number one [rule],” Green told E! News in April, “is always make sure that everything is centered around the experience of the kids.”
He continued, “People make a mistake of thinking that they’re gonna do things so the separation doesn’t affect the kids and, of course, it’s gonna affect the kids. The only choice you have is how it affects the kids.”
While Green and Fox are amicable, he noted that they do sometimes need to “pick [their] battles” and put their kids first. (Green and Fox, who have a 13-year age gap, went their separate ways in 2020.)
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“The person that you were with that you’re now separated from, you guys are separated for a reason,” he explained. “Because you didn’t get along. So, you can’t expect to then get along after the fact in raising your kids. So, you have to decide, ‘OK, it’s not about us getting along anymore. It’s about us coparenting, which is a totally different situation.’”
Green has shared that coparenting with Marcil, 56, however, has been “difficult from the beginning.” In a September 2023 episode of the “Old-ish” podcast, Green explained that he suffered from vertigo “for years” which made it hard for him to see their son. Marcil, for her part, claimed that she raised Kassius by herself.
While reflecting on fatherhood, Green told Us Weekly that he wishes he could “fix” a lot of the mistakes he and Marcil made while raising Kassius.
“There are two sides to all of it, and looking back on it, there were absolute mistakes made on both sides because we were young and new parents and didn’t understand,” he told Us in September 2023. “There’s a part of me that wishes I could go back and fix things, of course, but then there’s also a part of me that knows that if I hadn’t experienced exactly what I experienced in parenting, I wouldn’t be where I am today.”
