The Untold Truth Of Megan Fox

Megan Fox follows the classic celebrity timeline of starting off in a small town to find her way into Hollywood. She told GQ that her hometown of Rockwood, Tennessee, was "a semi-mountain town, very rural." The actor remembered her "dad used to hunt ducks and my mom would put them in the pot." This was just one example of her humble roots. "We lived really modestly. We had very little money," she said. Fox also grew up with a significantly older sister. At the age of ten, Fox moved to Florida after her father and mother divorced.

As a kid, she spent some of her free time performing. Fox practiced "ballet for much of her childhood," according to The New York Times. And when she wasn't in the dance studio, she would show off her talent at home. Though Fox said her drive as a child wasn't the need to perform, she did admit to GQ, "I just always wanted everyone's attention to be focused on me." But she didn't spend much time with other kids her age, with GQ noting that she wasn't allowed to hang out with friends outside of school. Even though she remembered missing her father, she was "relatively happy" throughout her childhood.

In her film "Jennifer's Body," Megan Fox plays the titular character, a "demon who has to eat boys to remain beautiful," as The New York Times recapped. And while the premise is clearly fictional, it may not be so far out there for Fox. The actor admitted that she believes in paranormal activity. In an interview for the AP, Fox talked about a constant "feeling I don't belong to anything — even to the world." And she added that becoming famous only increased this feeling of separation to others. Fox admitted, "I'm one of those people who thinks, if aliens are real, when they come back to earth I'm one of the humans they'll contact. It's me — I know it's gonna be me."

Fox shared similar theories while talking to the Los Angeles Times. "I've always been into alternative history, antiquities, archaeology," she revealed before clarifying that it's the inexplicable aspects of history that most intrigue her. She said, "I've always been really consumed by these deep mysteries," which "eat away at me." Fox said her fascination began while filming "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in Egypt. During a tour of the Great Pyramid of Giza, her guide allegedly said "that the pyramid was never actually a tomb." According to the actor, she believes the site was originally an "energy plant at some point" and that "the sarcophagus that is in the Great Pyramid was put there by the government for tourism."

As a young actor, Megan Fox was living in New York and working on the sitcom "Hope & Faith." Her life changed in a big way in 2004 when the actor Brian Austin Green — known for his role on "Beverly Hills, 90210" — came on the show as a guest star. In an interview for Allure, Fox recalled seeing her future husband for the first time. "After we were done shooting that day, Brian gave his number out to everyone," she said. And Fox made the first move. "So I called him," she revealed. The two clicked and started to see each other romantically, and Fox connected with his child from a previous relationship, Kassius. She told Allure that Kassius was "the only person I enjoy cooking for. I like arranging it on his little plate." 

It sounds like Fox was attracted to Green immediately. Chatting with Allure interview, she called Green "gorgeous. He's always been hot." She said of all her time in Hollywood and meeting many other attractive guys still couldn't change her mind on Green. According to Fox, he is "the most attractive man" and is "phenomenal."

The two wed in Hawaii in 2010. Fox and Green had three children together, and in 2020, TMZ reported they filed for divorce.

Megan Fox caused quite a stir when she talked about her love life in the early days of her stardom. In an interview for GQ, the actor detailed her first year living alone in Los Angeles. She told the outlet that she started exploring all parts of the town, including a strip club called the Body Shop on Sunset Boulevard. Fox remembered it was there that she "was in love with this girl" named Nikita. "I was there all the time –I would go there by myself. I bought her things –perfume, body spray, girlie stuff," Fox detailed. And she further explained more interactions with the stripper. But Nikita may have never existed.

According to an article by The New York Times, Fox's story was apparently only a tantalizing tale. Reportedly, "there was no Nikita." Later, in another interview with GQ, Fox addressed the confusion surrounding her anecdote. "I didn't make that up but I totally made it more colorful than it was," she said. According to Fox, the original article spun the story to seem like "a very sexual thing. In reality, it wasn't." The actor explained that there really was a woman she felt attracted to but the article's writer didn't fully understand her story. She said the author didn't catch that what she said was a joke and reported "as if I meant it literally."

In 2010, Megan Fox joined Josh Brolin on screen for a live-action adaptation of the comic book series Jonah Hex. The film worked not only as a chance for Fox to show off her acting skills but also as a personal passion. During an interview for GQ, Fox revealed she loves to geek out and is an "avid consumer of sci-fi, comic books and fantasy films." The actor explained that her hobby for these fantasy worlds started at a young age, telling Allure that she loved to read comic books growing up "because it was an escape." She also revealed the intensity in which she could devour this content. According to Fox, "I could go days, weeks without talking to another human being." Her reason for loving the fictional tales party stemmed from her home life. She said that the comic books she read were "full of adrenaline, and it was just a total escape from school, from family, from everything." And if she weren't busy acting, you might not find Fox. "I could go days, weeks without talking to another human being," she said in Allure. "I could probably go months and be perfectly satisfied. Easily."

When GQ caught up with Fox at Comic-Con in San Diego in 2008, the reporter noted that the actor fawned over Batman sketches and rejected using the word "nerd" to describe the attendees. "They're not nerds," Fox said about her fellow comic book lovers. "They're just passionate."

A large part of Megan Fox's career has centered around her good looks. But for Fox, she admitted to body image struggles as a result of all the pressure and expectations of Hollywood. "Oddly, for someone who looks as good as she does in her underwear, I think she finds it really difficult being seen that way," "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People" costar Simon Pegg told GQ. Josh Duhamel, who she worked with in the first two "Transformers" movies, revealed similar insights about Fox. He recalled Fox filming a scene in front of hundreds of military members. "These guys love her and she gets all their attention," he said of the service members. "And it can't help but be difficult and uncomfortable."

All the pressure as an object of desire once led to serious complications. While filming for her role in "Jennifer's Body," Fox went to the extreme to lose weight for the film. She justified her diet as "method acting" but admitted it was a lie to herself. The actor revealed to GQ, "I ended up getting sick and my hair started falling out." Not only was she underweight and malnourished, she also remembered the mental toll of the experience. "I was depressed," she said. Her times modeling are equally straining. Fox told Allure she doesn't like photo shoots because it's "so uncomfortable having to look at myself all the time. I hate it."

Having once likened Michael Bay to both Napoleon and Hitler in the same interview for Wonderland, it's clear Megan Fox is unafraid to speak her mind. But even with her bold personality, Fox admitted to a few things that scare her. In that same interview, she addressed her anxieties surrounding the sensation of touching a printed newspaper. According to the actor, feeling a normal newspaper gives her chills and she said the experience is "like nails on a chalkboard" for her. She went on to share that anything with a similar texture, like tissue paper, fires up the goosebumps. "It's something about how dry it is that I can't touch it. Those are my main fears," she said.

The list of things that scare her runs the gamut. As noted in a GQ profile of the actor, Fox's feelings regarding sharks drove her to give up surfing altogether. Another thing that worries Fox? The idea of growing old and unable to fully function. She explained to Wonderland that she hopes to have a sound mind when she's older drew a comparison to an elderly Elizabeth Taylor and said she hopes to not be a "senile insane borderline personality schizoid."

Megan Fox started acting as a teenager, appearing in small roles until landing a recurring spot on the sitcom "Hope & Faith." Thanks to her work in the "Transformers" films, she picked up even more high-profile gigs: Fox became a leading woman for "Jennifer's Body" and starred as a human-amongst-turtles in the live-action flicks "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and the sequel "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows." As of 2021, Fox has been a working actor for a whopping 20 years. What's more, she has modeled for some of the biggest brands. For example, as she recalled in Allure, she was the face of an underwear ad for Italian fashion brand Emporio Armani in 2010.

With her face appearing on screen and on ads, Fox has earned nice payouts along the way. As of 2021, Fox was worth an estimated $8 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. And some of that money has gone to luxurious living arrangements. As reported by Architectural Digest, Fox purchased a house in Los Angeles for $900,000 in 2012 and put it back on the market a few years later. Fox and ex-husband Brian Austin Green also sold their spot in Toluca Lake (which was once owned by Bing Crosby) and another in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. In June 2021, the New York Post reported Fox and boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly started renting a place in Sherman Oaks that goes for a cool $30,000 a month. You know, pocket change.