Megan Fox addresses ‘xenophobic’ backlash after photo with Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and Machine Gun Kelly

‘Dear god that is NOT what I meant.’
Megan Fox addresses ‘xenophobic backlash after photo with Taylor Swift Travis Kelce and Machine Gun Kelly
Araya Doheny

Megan Fox ha found herself in hot water after an unlikely celeb friendship was revealed. Let's face it, nobody has more celebrity friends than Taylor Swift, and that is just a fact. But we did not realise that her group included Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly, who are like the sexually active band geeks to Swift and Travis Kelce's prom court. And yet here they all are, posing for pictures together at a post–Super Bowl party at Zouk nightclub in Las Vegas on Sunday, in an Instagram post from someone called Joe Oravec.

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In the dimly lit original picture Taylor is leaning on Travis's shoulder and smiling on one side. Beside them are MGK and Megan, who are both rocking their usual emo-punk aesthetic and flashing peace signs at the camera. The surprising double date was also captured on video, published in People, which shows Taylor and Travis coming up to Megan and MGK (Colson Baker) and greeting them with hugs.

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However, just hours after these astonishing new celeb NBF pics went viral, Megan found herself the subject of a backlash and accused of Xenophobia for making some ill-advised comments on commentary on her appearance.

After fans took to socials to speculate over Megan's apparently different looking face, she then hit back on Instagram stating: “oh my god guys look how different i…dont look at all. turns out it was just a shadowy cell phone pic of me looking like a ukranian blowup doll. when in REALITY i look like one of those super expensive silicone real sex dolls you can only get in japan”.

Some fans labelled the comments as “xenophobic”, which forced the actor to address the accusations again on the social media platform.

“Dear god. That is NOT what I meant. Ukrainian women are hot af and so in my imagination the blowup dolls would also be hot. Let a girl make a joke for f***s sake,” she wrote.

Famous Russian influencer Polina Pushkareva commented on the image, writing: “I guess xenophobia towards eastern Europeans is still a thing in Hollywood.”

While another wrote, “it’s very rude of you to speak like that about Ukranian women, that's how you showed yourself” and another wrote, “Babe Ukraine is being annihilated in a war. Pls can we just focus on that.”

A version of this article originally appeared in GLAMOUR US.