Machine Gun Kelly has revealed a bizarre quirk of the engagement ring he helped design for his new fiancee Megan Fox.
‘The bands are actually thorns. So if she tries to take it off, it hurts,’ he told Vogue, explaining: ‘Love is pain!’
His remarks went public a week after Kelly, 31, and Megan, 35, sealed their engagement by drinking each other’s blood after his dramatic proposal.
Besotted: Machine Gun Kelly has revealed a bizarre quirk of the engagement ring he helped design for his new fiancee Megan Fox
Astonishing: ‘The bands are actually thorns. So if she tries to take it off, it hurts,’ he told Vogue , explaining: ‘Love is pain!’
Megan announced their big news with a three-camera Instagram video that showed him down on one knee at the Ritz Carlton Dorado Beach resort.
She revealed that ‘we drank each other’s blood’ after he proposed under a banyan tree – the same spot where they previously had ‘asked for magic’ in June 2020.
Kelly then shared on his own Instagram page that he designed the ring in collaboration with British jeweler Stephen Webster.
Alongside a video of the ring on Megan’s finger, he wrote: ‘i know tradition is one ring, but i designed it with Stephen Webster to be two: the emerald (her birth stone) and the diamond (my birth stone) set on two magnetic bands of thorns that draw together as two halves of the same soul forming the obscure heart that is our love.’
Dramatic: His remarks went public a week after Kelly, 31, and Megan, 35, sealed their engagement by drinking each other’s blood after his dramatic proposal
In his new Vogue interview with Megan, he shared that one of the gems is ‘a thoroughbred Colombian emerald, with no treatment. It was just carved into the teardrop, straight out of the mine.’
He noted further: ‘And the diamond was directly from Stephen. The concept is that the ring can come apart to make two rings.’
Demonstrating, he said: ‘When it’s together, it’s held in place by a magnet. So you see how it snaps together? And then it forms an obscure heart.’
Alexandra Michell Gemologist Prestige Pawnbrokers of Channel 4’s Posh Pawn told MailOnline that the unique ring is likely to retail for up to $340,000.
Multiple angles: Megan announced their big news with a three-camera Instagram video that showed him down on one knee at the Ritz Carlton Dorado Beach resort
‘Each pear shape stone appears to be approx. 3cts on two magnetic diamond pave set bands shaped like thorns, signed Stephen Webster. This is a different choice from the traditional engagement ring style and is reminiscent of vintage Toi et Moi rings,’ said the gem expert.
‘The style is favored by other celebs including Emily Ratajkowski but dates back to fashion icon Jackie Kennedy.’
Alexandra added: ‘I would estimate this to retail for up to $340,000, being a Stephen Webster bespoke piece, with an emerald specially sourced for the ring.’
Their engagement is not the first time that the couple have decided on using blood as a way of showing their love for one another.
Details: Alongside a video of the ring on Megan’s finger, he wrote: ‘i know tradition is one ring, but i designed it with Stephen Webster to be two’
Last February he revealed that the Jennifer’s Body actress had given him a drop of her blood in a vial on a necklace as a gift.
Kelly has never been married before but does co-parent a 12-year-old daughter called Casie with his ex-girlfriend Emma Cannon.
Megan meanwhile shares three sons of her own – Noah, nine, Bodhi, seven, and Journey, five – with her sizzling ex-husband Brian Austin Green.
She filed for divorce from Brian in 2015 citing irreconcilable differences, but she was back with him and pregnant with Journey the following year.
Catching the eye: Kelly explained that the ring featured ‘the emerald (her birth stone) and the diamond (my birth stone) set on two magnetic bands of thorns’
Three years after they got back together, Megan took the legal step of filing to dismiss the divorce petition in April 2019.
Before the coronavirus lockdowns Megan and Kelly were in Puerto Rico as co-stars filming their upcoming movie Midnight In The Switchgrass.
Then in May 2020 the dynamic duo were glimpsed grabbing takeout in his Aston Martin in the wake of rumors she was self-isolating separately from Brian.
A couple of days later Brian emotionally announced on his podcast …With Brian Austin Green that Megan had left him earlier.
All that sweet affection: Megan, who once gifted Kelly a drop of her blood in a vial on a necklace, is pictured with him last May at the Billboard Music Awards in Los Angeles
