Megan Fox: Before and after famous
When she came out on "Transformers" she was quite a revelation, and now she has missed out on a lot within the industry.
After nearly a decade of relative quiet, Megan Fox has re-entered the news cycle. At first, it was because she separated from her husband of 10 years, Brian Austin Green. She was later seen in a new romance and starred in a very s****xy music video, with actor and musician Machine Gun Kelly, creating great controversy.
Now, Fox is back in the news after a clip from an interview she did in 2009 with Jimmy Kimmel recently resurfaced. In the interview, Ella Fox explains to Kimmel how she had been s****xualized in Hollywood when she was a teenager, and in response, Kimmel laughs and makes a s****xual joke.
The clip has revived conversations about how Hollywood and the media treated the actress when she was a teenager, turning her into a s****x icon and pigeonholing her into a role that plagued her for most of her career. Check out her story!
Megan Fox: Before and After
Megan Fox was born in Tennessee, United States and is of Native American, French, and Irish descent. Her parents divorced when she was very young and, with her sister, they were raised by her mother and her adoptive father, Tony Tonachio.
She is said to have had a relatively strict childhood; she was not allowed to have a boyfriend, invite friends to her house and lived with her mother until she was able to save enough to leave home.
The actress has previously stated that she was not always as pretty as she is now: "I was never the pretty girl at school, with whom the boys wanted to go out. I had braces in my mouth and I dyed the color orange. I was not one of the popular, it was rather lonely."
Megan also went on to say that in high school she was never popular, and that "everyone hated me, and I was a complete disaster, my friends were boys, and I had a very aggressive personality, and that's why the girls didn't like me. Only I've had one friend in my whole life."
But she was growing up and her appearance underwent a drastic change.
Before acting, Megan started dancing at the age of 5. The arts were in her future from the beginning, as she also attended choir and continued her studies until the age of 13, when she began to consider a career in modeling. And after winning several beauty pageants, at the age of 17 she tried to leave school to move to Los Angeles.
She broke into the acting industry with the 2001 movie "Holiday in the Sun." For a couple of years, she was booked as a guest star on shows like "What I Like About You" and "Two and a Half Men." After a few years of struggling, Megan Fox landed her breakout role in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
The movie "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" was the one that established Megan as a successful and talented actress that landed her several other jobs.
After the 2004 movie, Megan landed a role on the ABC sitcom "Hope & Faith." She replaced Nicole Paggi and played the role of Sydney Shanowski on the show. She continued to appear on the show until ABC canceled it in 2006.
But it wasn't until 2007 that Megan appeared on the world's radar, earning a breakout role in the hit action franchise, "Transformers."
In this movie, Megan played the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character, Sam Witwicky, with whom she gained huge popularity. Fox was nominated for the Breakthrough Performance title at the MTV Movie Awards. She then reportedly signed on for two "Transformers" movies, until fame fell apart.
Her performance kicked off nearly 2 years of relentless Fox media coverage as a s****x symbol.
In 2009, when she was 22 years old, she starred in the comedy-horror, "Jennifer's Body". The film has since become a feminist cult classic, but flopped in theaters, mainly due to its s****xist marketing and ensuing s****xist backlash, which misconstrued it as a raunchy horror film for men.
The same year, while doing press for "Jennifer's Body," Fox revealed in an interview that "Transformers" director Michael Bay was "a nightmare to work with," comparing him to Hitler. After that, the s****xist press around Fox intensified and anonymous members of Bay's group came out to defend the director and call her a nasty and unpleasant woman.
She was then fired from the cast of "Transformers 3" and basically disappeared from the public eye, only appearing in a few movies throughout the 2010s. Since then, she's only made headlines for her relationship with Brian Austin Green and Machine Gun. Kelly.
