Sharna Burgess is opening up about her fiancé Brian Austin Green’s parenting skills.
“One of the things that I fell in love with about Brian very early on was the way he is as a father to his children,” Burgess, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly at Nancy Davis’ 32nd Annual Race To Erase MS Gala on Friday, May 16. “He is the kind of father that I honestly wish that I grew up with. He is the kind of man that I watch every day with our children, and the way that he parents, and the way that he is not just parenting but living as an example of what a good man should be — in his conversations, in the way he loves me, in the way that he loves our children.”
She continued, “He’s a phenomenal human being. The respect that he gives the people around him. He’s the kind of man that I want my kids to grow up watching.”
Green, 51, and Burgess share son Zane. He also shares sons Noah, 11, Bodhi, 10, and Journey, 7, with ex-wife Megan Fox, and son Kassius with ex Vanessa Marcil.
In 2018, Marcil claimed that Green had not seen their son in five years. “Kass has never met his youngest brother and is not allowed to know where his bio father, stepmother and three younger brothers live,” the actress wrote via Instagram at the time.
Green did not publicly respond to her allegations and has since posted Instagram photos with Kassius.
Six months after Green and Fox’s 2020 split, the pair also seemed to butt heads over their children via Instagram.
“I know you love your kids. But I don’t know why you can’t stop using them to posture,” Fox wrote via Instagram in November 2020. “You’re so intoxicated with feeding the pervasive narrative that I’m an absent mother, and you are the perennial, eternally dedicated dad of the year.”
One year later, in July 2021, a source exclusively told Us that Fox and Green’s coparenting relationship was a “work in progress.”
“They are on better terms now than they were a year and a half ago,” the source said at the time. “It’s not perfect …. But they are doing much better at it.”
With their nuptials on the horizon, Green and Burgess are hoping to eventually welcome a baby girl into the fold.
“We will most likely do IVF anyway,” Burgess told Us on Friday.
“I want the best that science can offer,” Green added. “I want to f***ing spin and I want to do whatever the f*** you have to do to get a little girl. It’s time. I want to be a girl dad. It’s supposed to be a different experience.”
“We would like to try for a girl, yes,” Burgess chimed in.
The pair also addressed their decision to postpone their wedding, which will now likely take place in 2026.
“In all honesty, it takes a lot to plan and it’s a lot going on, and I would much rather my priorities lie in trying to find space to have another baby, which I’m not saying is right now, but I also don’t want to be pregnant for the wedding,” Burgess explained. “No one’s pregnant but I don’t want to be pregnant for my wedding or postpartum recovery. So listen, people just need to chill. We’re good. We’re happy.”
