Megan Fox: 'Girls Think I'm a Slut'
Megan Fox is known for making headline-grabbing pronouncements like, "Men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man," or, "Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands." But with "Jennifer's Body" dying a quick death at the box office, the pouty-lipped starlet's handlers have "grown increasingly nervous about her media image," according to a profile in this Sunday's New York Times magazine, which poses the question, "Having come so far so fast, how do you stay this year's girl when the year is almost over?" The apparent answer: win over the female movie-going audience by serving up relatable tidbits about how Megan likes to hit Red Lobster with boyfriend Brian Austin Green on Saturday nights to chow down on cheese biscuits (mmmmm ... cheese biscuits). Does Fox, 23, play along with the attempt to make her over from an "out-of-control sex bomb" to a "homebody"? Click through for some of her deep thoughts from the sit-down ...
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On whether she'll be able to get women to like her:
"Women tear each other apart. Girls think I'm a slut, and I've been in the same relationship since I was 18. The problem is, if they think you're attractive, you're either stupid or a whore or a dumb whore. The instinct among girls is to attack the jugular."
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On the first time she felt the intoxicating touch of Brian Austin Green:
"Brian accidentally touched my leg. I remember literal electricity shooting through me and out me from every direction. It was like magic."
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On being fun and funny, unlike that gravitas-bringing actress she's always compared to:
"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."
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On revealing her lady bits on-screen:
"I would never be naked in a film. You should never say never, but my body parts are all I have left that are only mine. The world owns everything else."
On being a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a smokin' hot enigma:
"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."
Seriously, she's a totally inscrutable bombshell:
"It's been a crazy year. 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."
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On how her bawdy bon mots are a "feminist stance":
"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 OK, if you know how to use it."
![On referring to Transformers director Michael Bay as being like Hitler:I got myself in this whole mess. But it doesn't matter. I know that the things they said about me in the crew letter [she was called classless and dumb as a rock] were not true, but 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.](http://static.wonderwall.com/Photos/Original/17366_Original.jpg)
On referring to "Transformers" director Michael Bay as being "like Hitler":
"I got myself in this whole mess. But it doesn't matter. I know that the things they said about me in the crew letter [she was called "classless" and "dumb as a rock"] were not true, but 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 maintaining her high artistic standards by refusing to star in a romcom:
"It might be a good business move. And I get sent romantic comedies. But I'm fearful of doing those. I'm 23 -- I don't belong in a romantic comedy yet. Those movies are very safe. They're tailored to middle America, which is why they make the money that they make. But I don't want to do that yet."
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On being a Hollywood snowflake:
"My mother never really believed that I would be successful but I never second-guessed it at all. I never once even got depressed. I'm my own thing. I don't feel like there's anyone else like me."
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