Sharna Burgess & Brian Austin Green Share Rare New Video of Their Blended Family — & It Sparks Major Backlash

When Sharna Burgess decided to post a vulnerable family moment with her 3-year-old son Zane, she probably didn’t expect it to draw so much attention from mom-shamers. Yet, that’s exactly what happened. The Dancing With The Stars alum posted a sweet new video of her blended family with fiancé Brian Austin Green, and people were so judgmental about one aspect about it.

On Tuesday, Burgess shared a rare new video of her son Zane, who she shares with Green, and Green’s sons Noah, 12, Bodhi, 11, and Journey, 9, who he shares with ex-wife Megan Fox. It started with son Zane, who began his first day of preschool yesterday. “I am utterly unwell… when did I blink?” Burgess captioned the video of this milestone moment. “The end.. I SOBBED in the car afterwards. I also cried last night and this morning.”

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Sharna Burgess and Brian Austin Green at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at The Dolby Theatre on March 27, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

In the lengthy post, she shared how she has been documenting her son’s milestone moments by making video messages for when he gets older. Burgess added, “My big boy is still little… but today when he woke up he felt a little bigger, a little more grown, and a little bit less my baby. I am not well. And yet I couldn’t be more proud ✨💕”

Zane holds up a first day of school chalkboard sign and smiles at the camera. He asks, “Am I going to school?” as one of his older brothers off-camera says, “Yeah!” and asks if he’s excited. In the video, Zane’s brothers praise him and encourage him about his first day of school, and it’s the cutest sibling bonding moment ever.

But if you thought that was cute, wait until you get to the end. All three older siblings gather around Zane to snap a picture with him on his first day, and he couldn’t look prouder with them by his side.

In her caption, Burgess added, “His siblings hyped him up this morning as you can hear, and we all went to support his first morning drop off. My blended tribe is my everything. We are so lucky ♥️”

Despite how precious and adorable this video was, people flooded the comments with judgmental words because of the boys’ long hair and one of the kid’s fake nails.

“Damn now even this boy looks like a girl why do all his boys look like girls,” one person wrote. Others remarked on the kids’ hair and outfits, seemingly forgetting that they are writing about literal children. The comments got so bad, Burgess ended up deleting them and disabling comments entirely on her post.

However, that didn’t stop people from taking their hateful rhetoric to X. One person said, “Brian Austin Green is an absolute failure as a father. Any man who would allow not one, not two, but all THREE of his young sons to masquerade as little girls deserves to be castrated.” Like, what? How can someone be so hateful to a bunch of kids? Others accused Green and Fox of “child abuse,” and for what? Letting their child wear a Hello Kitty sweater? Letting them have long hair? It’s ridiculous and completely uncalled for.

In the past, Burgess has opened up about the hate she, Green and Fox get about their kids. On an episode of Between Us Moms podcast in October, Burgess opened up about why their family wouldn’t do a reality TV show. “We already get media articles like I’m forcing Zane to be a girl because I haven’t cut his hair yet or the ridiculous people saying that the kids are being forced to be girls,” she said. “I don’t understand it. So imagine us doing an actual reality show. The attention is just not healthy for our kids and it’s certainly not Brian’s style either.”

In 2023, Burgess wrote on her Instagram stories that people filled her DMs attacking her for putting her son Zane’s hair up in a topknot with a pink elastic. “I’ve had some people in my DMs that were so passionately angry at me for doing that,” she wrote, per Us Weekly.

“I don’t get this whole ‘pink is for girls’ and me putting a pink hair tie [doesn’t] symbolize anything,” she continued. “I don’t get this whole ‘long hair is feminine or for girls.’ I mean, I’m sorry, have you seen Jason Momoa?” Burgess added that it is “just wild to me that when it’s kids, it’s like we’re pushing some agenda on them. It’s so f—king dumb!” Period!

In a previous interview with Glamour, Fox shared that she encouraged her kids to dress how they wanted to from when they were very young. “Noah started wearing dresses when he was about two, and I bought a bunch of books that sort of addressed these things and addressed a full spectrum of what this is,” the Transformers star, who is also mom to 5-month-old daughter Saga with Machine Gun Kelly, said. “Some of the books are written by transgender children. Some of the books are just about how you can be a boy and wear a dress; you can express yourself through your clothing however you want. And that doesn’t even have to have anything to do with your sexuality.”

So from the time they were very young, I’ve incorporated those things into their daily lives so that nobody feels like they are weird or strange or different,” Fox added. And if people have a problem with that, maybe they should look back at their own selves and figure out why they are being so hateful toward children in the first place.

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