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Movies

The Crossing (2011)
Passion Play (2010)
Jonah Hex (2010)
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Whore (2008)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
Transformers (2007)
Hope & Faith (37 episodes, 2004-2006)
Crimes of Fashion (2004)
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
Bad Boys II (2003)
Ocean Ave. (122 episodes, 2002-2003)
Holiday in the Sun (2001)

Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model. She began her acting career in 2001 with several minor television and film roles, and played a recurring role on Hope and Faith. In 2004, she launched her film career with a role in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. In 2007, she was cast as Mikaela Banes, the love interest of Shia LaBeouf’s character in the blockbuster film Transformers which became her breakout role and earned her various Teen Choice Awards nominations. Fox reprised her role in the 2009 sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Later in 2009, she starred as the titular lead character in the film Jennifer’s Body.

Fox is considered a sex symbol and frequently appears in men’s magazine “Hot” lists. She was listed #18, #16, #2, and #5 on Maxim magazine’s yearly Hot 100 list in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively, while FHM readers voted her the “Sexiest Woman in the World” in 2008. She ranked number one on Moviefone’s “The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25″ in 2008.

In 2004, Fox began dating Brian Austin Green, of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame, after reportedly having met on the set of Hope & Faith. They were involved in an on-again, off-again relationship, before finally marrying in June 2010.

Early life

Fox is of Irish, French and Native American ancestry, and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Darlene Tonachio and Franklin Fox. She was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Fox’s parents divorced when she was young and she and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather, Tony Tonachio. She said that the two were “very strict” and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house. She lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself.

Fox began her training in drama and dance at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee. She attended a dance class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary School’s chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim team. At 10 years of age, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, Fox continued her training. When she was 13 years old, Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Fox attended St. Lucie West Centennial High School, but at age 17, she tested out of school, via correspondence, in order to move to Los Angeles.

Fox has spoken extensively of her time in education; that in middle school she was bullied and picked on and she ate lunch in the bathroom to avoid being “pelted with ketchup packets”. She said that the problem was not her looks, but that she had “always gotten along better with boys” and that “rubbed some people the wrong way”. Fox also said of high school that she was never popular and that “everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn’t like me for that. I’ve had only one great girlfriend my whole life”. In the same interview, she mentions that she hated school and has never been “a big believer in formal education” and that “the education I was getting seemed irrelevant. So, I was sort of checked out on that part of it”.

Career

At 16, Fox made her acting debut in the 2001 film Holiday in the Sun, as spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart (Ashley Olsen). The film was released Direct-to-DVD on November 20, 2001. The following year, Fox landed the lead main role as Ione Starr on the television series Ocean Ave. The series lasted two seasons, from 2002–2003 and Fox appeared in 122 one-hour-long episodes. Also in 2002, she guest-starred on What I Like About You, appearing in the episode “Like a Virgin (Kinda)”. She was an uncredited extra in Bad Boys II in 2003. In 2004, Fox guest-starred on Two and a Half Men in the episode “Camel Filters and Pheromones”. In the same year, Fox made her film debut in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen co-starring opposite Lindsay Lohan, playing the supporting role of Carla Santi, a rival of Lola (Lindsay Lohan). Again in 2004, Fox was cast in regular role on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski, replacing Nicole Paggi in the role. Fox appeared in 36 episodes from seasons 2 to 3, until the show was cancelled in 2006.

In 2007, Fox won the lead female role of Mikaela Banes in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, based on the toy and cartoon saga of the same name. Fox played the love interest of Shia LaBeouf’s character Sam Witwicky. Fox was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category of “Breakthrough Performance”, and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards, in the category of “Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure”, “Choice Movie: Breakout Female”, and “Choice Movie: Liplock”. Fox has signed on for two more Transformers sequels. In June 2007, Fox was cast in a minor role in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, starring alongside Jeff Bridges, Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst. She portrayed Sophie Maes, a love interest of Sydney Young (Simon Pegg). The film premiered on October 3, 2008, but was considered a box-office failure. In 2008, Fox appeared alongside Rumer Willis as the character Lost in Whore. The film centers around a group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever imagined. The film was released October 20, 2008.

Fox reprised her role as Mikaela Banes in the Transformer sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. There was some controversy surrounding Fox’s appearance while filming the sequel of Transformers when Michael Bay, the movie’s director, ordered the actress to gain 10 pounds. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen premiered on June 8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The movie was released worldwide on June 24, 2009. Fox had her first lead role playing the title character in Jennifer’s Body, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. She played Jennifer Check, a mean-girl cheerleader possessed by a demon who begins to feed off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. The film was released on September 18, 2009, and co-stars Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody.

In April 2009, Fox began filming Jonah Hex, in which she portrayed Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and Jonah Hex’s (Josh Brolin) love interest. The film was released on June 18, 2010 and co-starred Will Arnett; Fox has described her role in the film as being a cameo. In early April, 2009 Fox signed on to star as the lead female role in the upcoming 2011 film The Crossing, about a young couple who get caught up in a drug trafficking scheme during their vacation to Mexico. In March 2009, Variety reported that Fox was set to star as the lead role of Aspen Matthews in the film adaption of the comic books Fathom which she will also co-produce with Brian Austin Green. Fathom is currently in pre-production. Fox will not reprise her role as Mikaela Banes in Transformers 3.

Public Image

Fox has said during an interview with The Times, on the topic of being a role model that: “It depends on what your idea of a role model is,” and continued with, “If your idea of a role model is somebody who’s gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I’m not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.” Fox said in the same interview, on the topic of being typecast that: “Getting typecast as what? Attractive? How bad is that?” She feels that it isn’t a bad thing to be typecast in this way and considers it to be flattering. She also believes that it gives her an advantage because people will not expect her to be more than simply attractive and when she does give a good performance, people will be surprised. Fox has shown interest in portraying a character less sexualized than that of Mikaela Banes, whom she portrays in the Transformers film series.

Fox said of being a popular media topic that, though she is not on the same level as Jennifer Aniston, Britney Spears, or Lindsay Lohan, she does find it difficult and that there have been times when people have avoided being around her because they do not want to end up in the media’s spotlight. “I need to behave in a way and handle myself in a way that will cause people to take me seriously,” she said, “[and] you can be sexy and be intelligent and be taken seriously, or you can be sexy and you can be out at clubs every night and not be [taken seriously]” but that she has not gone “completely insane”. Fox also said of going from being “relatively unknown” to her current celebrity status that: “I definitely feel ill-prepared; I mean, I don’t know if anyone ever sits back and goes, ‘Now is the moment that I think I should be a famous celebrity,’ – but I definitely feel it’s premature. I mean, I was in one movie that people have seen.”

Fox has appeared on the covers of many magazines. In 2007, she appeared in Maxim; in 2008, the list had grown to include Cosmo Girl, Paw Print, Jack (ITALY), FHM (UK), and GQ. In 2009, the list includes, USA Weekend, Esquire, Empire, Maxim, GQ (UK), Entertainment Weekly and ELLE. Fox was ranked #17 on interview magazines Hollywood faces to watch “Future Stars of Tomorrow”, ranked #16 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list, named #68 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006″ supplement, ranked #18 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list, she was ranked #1 on Moviefone’s ‘The 25 Hottest Actors Under 25′ in 2008, and was ranked #2 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2009 list in 2009. FHM readers voted her the “Sexiest Woman in the World” in 2008.

In late July 2009, Fox’s overexposure in parts of the media caused several men’s websites to boycott her. AOL’s man-blog Asylum dubbed August 4, 2009 “A Day Without Megan Fox” with the promise that the site would not mention or feature her on this day; they asked other men’s sites to copy this stance, and several (such as AskMen.com, Just a Guy Thing, and Banned in Hollywood) complied. “Listen, we love Megan,” Eric Rogell of TheBachelorGuy.com told New York Daily News. “She’s responsible for driving more eyeballs to our sites — just by getting photographed walking down the street in a white T-shirt — than any other celeb alive. [But] it’s time to give another young actress a shot at the attention.” Other sites, however, refused to boycott Fox, with Asylum’s sister site Popeater declaring “we’re posting things about Megan Fox that aren’t even news, just because we know you want it, whether you’ll admit it or not” and Coedmagazine calling the boycott a “publicity stunt” and “hypocritical”, saying that they were the home of “The Megan Fox Boycott Boycott”. The British newspaper The Sun declared August 4 to be “Megan Fox Day”, saying that “She deserves a day dedicated to her”. In response to the boycott, Fox told magazine Nylon, in a September 2009 interview, that “the media blitz” for Transformers resulted in an over-extension of her welcome in the media. “I was part of a movie that [the studio] wanted to make sure would make $700 million, so they oversaturated the media with their stars,” she said. “I don’t want to have people get completely sick of me before I’ve ever even done something legitimate.”

On September 11, 2009, an unsigned letter from crew members of Transformers defended Michael Bay against accusations reportedly made by Fox about his on-set behavior, including a comparison with Adolf Hitler. The letter alleges that Fox is unpleasant to work with on set and makes several accusations of ungracious behavior that are at variance with her public persona. Bay defended Fox and has said that he does not “condone” the letter. Anthony Steinhart, a production assistant who worked on Transformers, has also came out in her defense, stating that he had never “…witnessed Ms. Fox being rude or inconsiderate of people’s feelings or the work to be done”.

Comparison to Angelina Jolie

Fox has often been compared to actress Angelina Jolie, with the media dubbing her as the “next Angelina Jolie”. Fox has been compared to Jolie because they each have a “tattoo collection”, and status as a “built in sex-symbol”. Fox commented that the comparisons indicate a lack of creativity on the part of the media, and are simply due to the dark hair and tattoos that she and Jolie have, and that both have been in action movies. There were several unconfirmed rumors that Fox was to replace Jolie in the next Lara Croft film. Fox also said of the comparisons that: “I am a brunette with tattoos, I curse and I have made mention of sex before. I joked about it which people find outrageous so they want to constantly compare that to her.” Fox remarked, “I’m sure she has no idea who I am. But if I were her, I’d be like, ‘Who the fuck is this little bullshit brat who was in Transformers that’s going to be the next me?’ I don’t want to meet her. I’d be embarrassed.”

Fox has eight known tattoos, including her husband’s name “Brian” on her lower hip and a picture of Marilyn Monroe’s face on her right forearm. Fox also has another tattoo on her right shoulder that reads, “We will all laugh at gilded butterflies” a line adapted from William Shakespeare’s play King Lear, a yin and yang tattoo on her left inner wrist, a poem on the left side of her rib cage that reads “there once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her HEART,” and a Chinese word for “strength” on her neck. Fox also has a crescent moon overlapping a five pointed star on the inner aspect of her lower leg above her right ankle. This tattoo is the only known colored tattoo that Fox has. Fox’s most recent tattoo is on the right side of her rib cage, and is a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche that reads “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”.

Personal life

Fox has been involved with actor Brian Austin Green since 2004, having first met on the set of Hope & Faith when she was 18 and he was 30. In 2006, they got engaged; however, they broke off the engagement in February 2009. They were engaged again in June 2010, and just a few weeks later, on June 24, 2010, the two wed in a private ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii. Green appeared in the SNL Digital Short “Megan’s Roommate” in the Season 35 premiere episode of Saturday Night Live, which Fox hosted.

Fox is good friends with Jennifer Blanc, Kellan Rhude, Jennifer’s Body co-star Amanda Seyfried, Michael Biehn and Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf. She is a fan of comic books, anime, and video games. Fox’s favorite artist is Michael Turner whose Fathom comic she describes as a longtime obsession. Fox has two dogs, including a Pomeranian named after Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Fox has also openly stated that she supports the legalization of marijuana, saying that she does not consider it a drug and that she would be first in line to buy a pack of joints.

In September 2008, Fox alluded to being bisexual; in an interview with GQ magazine, she said that when she was 18 years old she fell in love with and sought to establish a relationship with a female stripper. She used this experience to illustrate her belief that “all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes” and additionally showed interest in Olivia Wilde. In May 2009, she confirmed her bisexuality. In the June 2009 issue of ELLE, however, she stated that she somewhat distorted the events of her relationship with the stripper, saying she has given certain male writers “an amped-up version” of her past. “They’re boys; they’re easily toyed with,” she said. “I tell stories and have them eating out of my hand. Not all of it is true. In fact, most of it is bullshit.” Fox said, “I never said she was my girlfriend! I just said that I loved her, and I did love her. The real story is more sobering. It’s not a sexy, fun-time, fantasy story. But that’s not the story you tell GQ.”

Fox has additionally been open about her insecurities, and self-harming. She also acknowledges that she has low self-esteem:

“Yeah. But I don’t want to elaborate. I would never call myself a cutter. Girls go through different phases when they’re growing up, when they’re miserable and do different things, whether it’s an eating disorder or they dabble in cutting. I’m really insecure about everything. I see what I look like, but there are things that I like and things that I dislike. My hair is good. The color of my eyes is good, obviously. I’m too short. But overall, I’m not super excited about the whole thing. I never think I’m worthy of anything… I have a sick feeling of being mocked all the time. I have a lot of self-loathing. Self-loathing doesn’t keep me from being happy. But that doesn’t mean I don’t struggle. I am very vulnerable. But I can be aggressive, hurtful, domineering and selfish, too. I’m emotionally unpredictable and all over the place. I’m a control freak.”

Further, Fox has a fear of flying; she said she developed this about the time she turned 20. She has had to come up with ways to deal with it in order to avoid having panic attacks when getting onto a plane, most notably by listening to Britney Spears songs. In addition, she has expressed a distrust of “all boys-slash-men” in general, as well as women in the industry. “I just don’t like them or trust them,” stated Fox of her usual feeling toward males. Regarding female friends in Hollywood, she said she does not have many. “I especially don’t trust girls in this industry, because it’s incredibly competitive, and I’m just not interested.”

Personal Quotes

[on working with Michael Bay] Michael Bay’s name, if it’s attached to a script, you know it’s going to be a huge blockbuster released in the summer, with jets flying over at the premiere and all that kind of stuff. So, I knew it was going to be a huge movie.

[on George Clooney] He’s sarcastic, and he has a different girlfriend constantly. It’s considered charismatic. He’s like this James Bond, sexy dude. The older he gets, the better he gets. It’s a double standard. To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women. As soon as you curse or, God forbid, make some sort of sexual reference that’s a joke, you’re labeled a party girl. They don’t do that with men, so I feel it would be a lot easier.

[Director Michael Bay] doesn’t like really skinny actresses. He’s been traumatized by them for some reason in the past. So I always try to put on eight to ten pounds before [filming], and I’m always the fattest I’ve ever been when making a Transformers (2007) movie.

[on her Marilyn Monroe tattoo] I committed to having her face on my arm for the rest of my life, so I have to be a pretty big fan.

I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single Sat word I’ve ever learned, to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’ I don’t want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard.

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she’s not invisible. I don’t get it.

Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She’s mesmerizing.

Zac Efron is my obsession, we’re the same person. We’re not actually here, it’s like [Janet Jackson] and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it’s me, and you don’t know that. It’s one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they’re immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.

When I go to a party, I always feel like I’m chum. Like my agent is just chumming the waters until I’m circled by all these dudes.

People assume that I’m really promiscuous. There’s a difference between being very sexual and being promiscuous. I’m not promiscuous. I’m extraordinarily sexual within a monogamous relationship. Nothing’s off-limits. But that has nothing to do with experiencing a lot of people. I’ve only had two boyfriends my whole life.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I’ll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

[on Shia LaBeouf] He probably is my favourite person in the entire world. Shia makes me laugh harder than anybody I’ve ever known in my life. I end up crying or almost peeing myself every time I’m with him. So he’s just my favourite – I love you, Shia! And he’s really super-handsome!

[on Angelina Jolie] I’m actually frightened of her, I haven’t had the opportunity to meet her and I try to avoid that because I’m afraid. Angelina’s a powerful person and I bet she would eat me alive. I guess that is why I’m afraid of her. There have been a lot of films I’ve had to pass on because I don’t want people thinking I’m trying to emulate her.

When I moved to Los Angeles I had no money. I remember needing to shave my legs, and I didn’t even have enough money to buy disposable razors. So I’d wear pants all the time.

Women are expected to be conformist automatons in L.A. but in Britain you can be more yourself and people will take you on face value.

I don’t trust male intentions, usually, because they don’t approach me for intellectual conversation.

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren’t attractive I wouldn’t be working at all.

I’m definitely labelled in the pin-up category. I haven’t given people a reason to take my work seriously yet, which is my responsibility. I think the expectation for me, as far as my ability as an actress goes, is very low. I feel like that means I can only ever be an over-achiever when people expect so little from me.

I was with someone from the time I was 18 and I’ve never been my own independent adult. Right now there’s no space in my head for who’s going to be next or how I need to fill my time. I’m trying to expand myself and grow and be comfortable with who I am before I get into another relationship where I’ll just repeat a cycle. Otherwise I will have ten failed relationships. I will be Elizabeth Taylor by the time I am 60 and I don’t want that.

I’m kind of a recluse. I’m a hermit and it’s because I do have a great fear of Hollywood, just watching what it does to people. You have to be a really strong human being to survive it, as a girl especially. So I try to avoid the Hollywood scene as much as possible and people who enjoy the Hollywood scene — that’s usually a red flag to me. Some people might think my life is boring, but I haven’t been to rehab yet, so I think I’m doing something right!

I didn’t decide I’m gonna be an actress cause I wanna be respected for how I play chess.

I do have a 22-inch waist, I will say that.

[on Marilyn Monroe] I just had an incredible amount of empathy for her my whole life. I cry when I see her on camera.

I worked at a Tropical Smoothie in Florida when I was 15. I would sometimes have to go out by the street in a gigantic banana costume and dance to try to get customers to come in. There was no anonymity – the costume had a big hole cut out so that everyone could see your face. My friends from school would drive back and forth and yell all kinds of awesome obscenities at me.

I grew up craving the spotlight and once it happened I immediately recoiled. It just always seemed really glamorous. As a child you think everyone who’s famous is very wealthy and powerful. I thought my internal issues would be solved and I would be this really confident person. And I’m not.

[On giving male writers an amped-up version of her past] They’re boys; they’re easily toyed with. I tell stories and have them eating out of my hand.

Sex and the City (2008), the movie, was so tragic. Costume dramas bore me and Hollywood comedies are total garbage, not funny at all. Fame doesn’t mean anything because anyone can be famous, and TV news is mindless.

I have no friends and I never leave my house. You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble. It’s easy when you feel upset or depressed about something to want to go to a club and want to drink, but instead I just force myself to sit and feel it and deal with it, and try to grow from it, because I don’t want to go down that path. I’m one of the most isolated people in existence right now, but it’s worth it because if I wasn’t making that decision I would be throwing away my career.

[on Angelina Jolie] She always seems otherworldly in her power and her confidence. I’m sure she has no idea who I am.

[on Transformers (2007)] I’m terrible in it. It’s my first real movie and it’s not honest and not realistic. The movie wasn’t bad, I just wasn’t proud about what I did.

I think one day I could be a very good actress. But so far, I haven’t done anything.

I’m not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I’m not Meryl Streep.

[on being asked if she had a crush on Angelina Jolie] Absolutely. Every time a relationship ends, I say, ‘If I could just be Angelina’s girlfriend, I would be so happy.’ I love Angelina Jolie. She’s someone I admire and look up to. She’s my favorite actress in Hollywood. I just love that she’s incredibly honest, and I feel that she’s not afraid to be herself. She tells you exactly what’s on her mind.

I am not a Jennifer Aniston or a Britney Spears or even a Lindsay Lohan, you know? My pictures don’t sell for that kind of money. But [of] the small level that I do deal with it, it is hard and there have been times [when] people don’t want to hang out with me because they don’t want to end up on the Internet. I sometimes just turn around and go back home and don’t do anything and have to have someone go do my grocery shopping.

[on her childhood playtime] I played with Barbies but I used to decapitate them. I used to take their heads off then dye their hair and do weird things.

[on rumours that she will star in a new Lara Croft movie] I think that’s a role that Angelina Jolie mastered, and I would never attempt to take that over from her.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross.

[on her role in Jonah Hex (2010)] I’m sort of a tough, no-nonsense prostitute, like, she’ll shoot you in the head if she has to. And she does. Actually not in the head but I get to shoot someone somewhere. It’s a lot of fun.

I like to cut through the BS. I don’t like small talk and I don’t like to have to be a cookie cutter. That’s a quality I started to develop as a kid in middle school. You know how everybody goes into cliques and you all talk behind everyone’s back? I thought it was so ignorant. So I just really started being completely honest with everybody all of the time. It gets me into trouble often, but, at the end of the day, I think it’s a good quality to have. I have become a little more aware of the media’s tendency to twist things that I say.

If you know how to take control of being a sex symbol, then it can be powerful. But I have no idea how to handle it yet, how to deal with it.

If your idea of a role model is somebody who’s gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I’m not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.

[On rumors she turned down the role of the girl in the 23rd James Bond movie] No one ever talked to me about doing that movie. I would never turn something like that down.

[On getting down to 99 pounds while shooting Jennifer's Body (2009)] I decided I would turn myself into a zombie. I got super, super skinny, stayed out of the sun for four months, and got to where I was losing my eyelashes and my eyebrows.

[On the possibility of making a sex tape] Ugh, never! That’s the last thing I want to see – what I look like having sex. It would take one shot of me not looking good and I would not be able to have sex ever again, as I would always just see myself looking like a hippo having sex. It lives forever, especially now, with the Internet. I just can’t. I just can’t. Everything you say gets judged, everything you do gets judged. Literally all I have left are my private parts and I don’t want to also share them with the world. I’d like to keep them private. That’s why they’re called that.

I was never a bad girl and still not. I challenged authority in school a little bit. Now I just speak my mind openly. That’s who I am.

I like someone who has a super gentle spirit and energy, who’s funny and has a good sense of humour – I’m really gentle, and so I like a boy who will treat me that way. I don’t like boys who are mean to their mummies. That’s a real turn off for me. And I don’t like boys who aren’t chivalrous. To me, not being respectful is a big deal.

I think that God or the universe, or whatever you believe in, gave men brute physical strength and gave women their sexuality. It’s so easy to control men with it, so I don’t know why I wouldn’t embrace it and allow myself to be empowered by it.

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it’s just so sick on so many levels.

My sense of humor doesn’t translate well into print, some of the things I say can be offensive or found offensive even though I don’t mean them that way. So I have been told to try and censor myself here and there. I’m trying, but I’m not really succeeding at it.

I have no idea about my future career. I just hope that I can still be working in 10 years. When you’re in something as successful as Transformers (2007), you can’t use it as a sales piece for your ability as an actress because it’s all about the special effects.

I am very vulnerable. But I can be aggressive, hurtful, domineering and selfish, too. I’m emotionally unpredictable and all over the place. I’m a control freak.

I was not ‘the slut’ in high school. I was not an outcast but I didn’t have a ton of friends. I got picked on, and I ate lunch in the bathroom because I was afraid of being picked on in the cafeteria. I was a loner, and I think that’s okay. I think it’s perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Little girls are very much exposed to sexuality through the media and the entertainment industry and advertisements. So when you realise that you have the same power that you’ve watched women who’ve come before you have, it is frightening and you don’t know what to do with it. I don’t think you ever get comfortable with it. It’s a strange, almost supernatural thing.

I have eight tattoos. All my boyfriends are required to have one and if they don’t have one yet, I make them get a tattoo of my name or my face.

I don’t like dry paper. Scripts, newspapers or anything that’s not laminated, I have to keep licking my fingers. If I’m reading I have a cup of water to dip my fingers in. I’m really neurotic.

I’ve been afraid of the dark all my life. I leave the lights on all the time and if the light is off, I have to run across the room to get to the switch. I can’t walk through a dark room. I’m afraid of what I can’t see.

There were some evil girls in my school and I went to Christian high school. I was fifteen and everybody knew that my aspiration in life was to become an actress. One girl came to school on Halloween in a black leather catsuit and everyone thought she was Catwoman. She answered, ‘No I am ‘Megan Fox.’ She was making fun of me. I didn’t say anything to her. I was really shy. I’ve always gotten along better with boys. That rubbed some people the wrong way. I was not, ever for a second, popular. Everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn’t like me for that. I’ve had only one great girlfriend my whole life.

There are those who have a Google Alert on themselves and read everything everyone says and then there are those who pretend it isn’t happening. I’m one of the latter. I could never pore over what’s said about me. It wouldn’t work. I’d be a complete lunatic, drug-addled and out of my mind. Instead I stay in and ignore it all. I’m actually kind of a recluse.

… I’ve learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they’re going to tear you down. And I created a character as an offering for the sacrifice. I’m not willing to give my true self up. It’s a testament to my real personality that I would go so far as to make up another personality to give to the world. The reality is, I’m hidden amongst all the insanity. Nobody can find me.

If I had been a typical starlet and said all the right things, I wouldn’t have escalated to this level. I sit down and do an interview and I talk like a person and that, for some reason, is shocking. All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You’re sold, and it’s based on sex. That’s O.K., if you know how to use it.

Sometimes I so desperately want to clarify. I recently had an urge to get a Twitter account to explain myself. But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story. There’s no solving this: it’s completely its own monster. You have to come up with clever ways of getting your control back.

I know that the things they said about me in the crew letter were not true, but Michael Bay is not happy with some of the things I’ve said about him. I was waiting for someone to defend me, to say, “That’s not accurate”, but nobody did. I think it’s because I’m a girl. They left me out there to be bludgeoned to death — on the letter that some of the crew of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) sent out.

When I sit down to talk to men’s magazines, there’s a certain character that I play. She’s not fully fleshed out — she doesn’t have her own name — but she shows up to do men’s magazine interviews. There’s something so ridiculous about always being in your underwear in those magazines, and you know the interview is going to run opposite those pictures. So, there’s a character that talks to all of them.

People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she’s so serious and stoic. I’m the opposite. When I do interviews, I say things that I think are hysterical. But because we live in a world of sound bites, you’re not allowed to have a sense of humor. Sarcasm doesn’t translate in print at all. And neither does self-deprecating humor. I’m not a tigress like Angelina. Of course, people want me to be. But I want to be the contradiction of that.

I feel like that’s my purpose in life, to do charity work and help people around the world on a global level. Being part of this business, you have so much influence and you can really make a difference. I’m drawn towards the idea of somehow helping children.

[On her classic red 1966 Mustang Fastback Christmas present from Brian Austin Green] We were going through cars on eBay and I found one in really good condition that was beautiful and for a good price.

[On her height] I’m tiny, and people think that I’m 5′ 10″ or that I’m big. They think celebrities are larger than life, and I’m really short. I’m 5′ 4″.

[on her dream role] I like playing psychos, so any kind of mentally-disturbed female is fun for me.

There are some women you could put in underwear and photograph them, and it looks really classy and it doesn’t necessarily provoke a pinup image. But with me it does, immediately, as soon as I’m in underwear. I’m a Vargas girl.

I feel intimidated by fashion. I hate doing photo shoots.

I don’t trust people in this industry. But I especially don’t trust girls in this industry, because it’s incredibly competitive, and I’m just not interested.

No one believes me when I talk about this, but I’m really maternal. I worry that because I’ve always wanted [kids] so much, as the world goes sometimes, I won’t be able to have them. Even though I would be able to provide them with such an amazing environment.

I am a stepmother to the fullest extent. I have looked after Kassius since he was three and he has no memory of life without me. For some reason, no one wants to look at me that way, but I am responsible for him and I’ve never struggled with that, from bedtime stories to the school run.

I’ve only been with two men my entire life. My childhood sweetheart and Brian. I can never have sex with someone that I don’t love, ever. The idea makes me sick. I’ve never even come close to having a one-night stand.

I think people are born bisexual and they make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite. I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.

I’ve lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18. I’m so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don’t like them or trust them.

Daniel Day-Lewis is incredibly successful, and he’s not being followed by the paparazzi. You put yourself in that position. You never see Nicole Kidman in the tabloids like you see Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson. If I were to go out and make a scene in every club in New York and LA, eventually I would start getting a lot of press in the tabloids. But is that something I want?

[On her fear of flying] I developed that when I turned 20. All of a sudden I got really afraid to get on airplanes. I had to come up with a way to deal with it because I didn’t want to have panic attacks every time I get on a plane. I know for a fact it’s not in my destiny to die listening to a Britney Spears album, so I always put that on when I’m flying because I know it won’t crash if I’ve got Britney on.

[on skin tone in Transformers (2006)] I had been tanning a lot so that [director Michael Bay] would be happy with my skin tone. Every spare moment of sun that was outside, I had to be in it. It’s not going to happen again because of the damage and the possible skin cancer.

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