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August 19, 2015

She could be Queen Esther with that ebony hair, those sapphire eyes and the alabaster skin….

Nevermind that Megan Fox isn't exactly known for her moral judgments: she famously compared “Transformers” director Michael Bay to Hitler and was promptly fired (a move Bay later told GQ Steven Spielberg encouraged). Then again, she was never really Jewish to begin with.

But the good news is: her children are…

In the five years the bodacious actress has been married to “90210” star Brian Austin Green (Jewish), the couple has produced two children — the biblically-named Noah Shannon, 2½ and the Buddhist-inspired Bodhi Ransom, 18 months. So although the couple of 11 years have reportedly split for good, Fox is still the mother of two half-Jewish sons and has left the ever-complicated Jewish gene pool a little better off.

Even short marriages, it seems, have happy consequences.

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