twenty things you probably didn't know about Megan Fox

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Megan Play a joke on is an extra known for her part in the "Transformers" series.
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  • Megan Fox rose to fame as Mikaela Banes in the 2007 pic "Transformers," gracing the covers of many magazines and snagging the title of "sexiest adult female in the world" soon after the movie premiered.
  • The 34-twelvemonth-old extra has since worked on projects including "Jennifer'due south Body," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and more.
  • From her ability to speak in tongues to the shoplifting incident that barred her from inbound Walmart, in that location are a lot of things that people likely don't know nearly Fox.
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After Megan Fox starred in the 2007 pic "Transformers," the Tennessee-born actress skyrocketed to fame overnight.

Of a sudden, Play a joke on was splashed on the cover of magazines like GQ Britain, Elle, and Maxim, to name a few. She was even named the "sexiest woman in the world" by men'south magazine FHM Online's reader poll in 2008. After becoming a global sensation in the "Transformers" movies, the actress connected to appear in projects like "Jennifer'southward Body" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

Now 34 years old, Fox continues to act and shares three children with her husband, actor Brian Austin Green. And while many people may feel like they know Fob through her on-screen roles, there'southward a lot more to the extra than meets the centre — from her dearest of comic books to her power to speak in tongues.

Here are 20 things you may not accept known most the actress.

Fox grew up in rural Tennessee.

Megan Play tricks was born in Tennessee.
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The actress was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and raised in Rockwood, which she described as "a semi-mountain town, very rural" during a 2009 interview with GQ UK.

"My dad used to hunt ducks and my mom would put them in the pot," she recalled, adding, "Nosotros lived actually modestly. Nosotros had very little coin."

Her male parent, who was a parole officer, and her mother divorced when she was iii years onetime.

She wanted to exist an actress from a young age.

Megan Fox said she ever wanted to suspension into interim.
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"I wanted to be an actress from the time I was 2. My mom said it was the but affair I ever said I wanted to practise. When I was iv or five, I watched 'The Wizard of Oz,' and for a year, I asked her to call me Dorothy. When my mom explained to me that Dorothy was not real, that an actress plays her, I decided I wanted to exist an actress," she said during a 2009 interview with The New York Times.

She feuded with "Transformers" director Michael Bay.

Megan Fox played Mikaela Banes in "Transformers."

Flim-flam became well-known for her role as Mikaela Banes in the 2007 film "Transformers" and the 2009 picture show "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."

During a 2009 interview with Wonderland Mag, nevertheless, the actress ignited a feud with the films' manager Michael Bay.

"He's like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. And then he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from ready, and he'southward not in managing director mode, I kind of actually savor his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly bad-mannered. He has no social skills at all. And information technology's endearing to watch him. He'southward vulnerable and frail in real life and then on set he's a tyrant."

Her comments led to a drawn-out conflict between her and Bay, she told The New York Times several months afterwards. And in response, the "Transformers" crew published an open letter responding to Fox's comments and called her "a classless, graceless, and shall nosotros say unfriendly b----."

"I got myself in this whole mess, merely information technology doesn't matter. I know that the things they said about me in the crew letter were not true, simply 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'south not accurate,' just nobody did. I think it's because I'm a girl. They left me out there to be bludgeoned to death," she told The New York Times.

Bay and Fox somewhen made apology and worked together on the 2014 film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

"I had to ride out two years of very negative press. There's this perception that I was sort of thrown out of Hollywood. The positive thing was that it forced me to be very introspective and go, 'Y'all were non totally correct in this situation.' I reached out to him, and we had a very 18-carat exchange. From that point forward, it was skilful," she told The New York Times in 2016.

Fox has admitted to having a major "sweetness molar."

Megan Fox said she prefers to eat unbaked desserts.
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"I have a bad sweet tooth and I eat tons of unbaked things. Dough. Fudge. Brownie mix. Cake mix. To the point where you think y'all have salmonella," she told Wonderland Magazine in 2009.

The actress became ill while trying to lose weight for her role in "Jennifer's Body."

Megan Play a trick on starred in "Jennifer'southward Trunk."
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"I lost, like, 30lbs," Flim-flam told GQ UK in 2009. "I was like, 'I'g losing weight for the pic.'"

The actress was preparing to star as Jennifer, a flesh-eating zombie, in the horror comedy movie.

"I was telling myself I was beingness Method, which was so outrageous and ridiculous and non true. Simply I ended up getting sick and my hair started falling out and I was like, 'Oh, f---. I tin can't do this.'"

Fifty-fifty though she got sick while preparing for the role, Fob said "Jennifer's Body" was her favorite project.

Megan Play tricks starred in "Jennifer'south Torso."
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"About of my fans, information technology'south their favorite projection that I've ever done. Information technology's my favorite project that I've ever washed," she said during a 2019 interview with Amusement Tonight.

"I mean I have some other ones that I really liked. I loved working on 'Ninja Turtles.' I loved working on 'New Girl.' But this 1 was just magical at that moment in my life, and it was a perfect fit."

The actress said she doesn't accept many friends and said she's never been a "social butterfly."

Megan Fox is an actress.
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"I consider myself a 'girl'due south girl' in that I'm not competitive, jealous, or catty, just I don't accept a ton of female friends — I accept one. Her proper name is Mindy and she'southward a facialist," the actress told Cosmopolitan in August 2014.

She added, "I don't have many guy friends, either. I've never been a social butterfly. I don't feel lonely or isolated. I have i really great friend and that's all I need."

Pull a fast one on has clubbed thumbs.

Megan Fox has drawn attending for the thumbs.
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New York Daily News reported that the condition is called brachydactyly. The outlet too reported that the condition tends to exist hereditary.

The actress was banned from Walmart after she was defenseless shoplifting makeup as a teenager.

Megan Play a joke on was caught shoplifting.
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When she was a teenager, Fox reportedly attempted to shoplift makeup from Walmart, according to Digital Spy and Daily Express.

"I don't know if the ban was for life, but when I was 14 or 15 I did get caught and convicted of stealing Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen cosmetics from a Wal-Mart," she said, according to Daily Express.

"They actually took me into the court and I had two choices and I took the second choice, which was wrapping gifts for Christmas, which was awesome, information technology wasn't really a punishment. The other 1 was they were gonna make me wear a sign that said I stole from Wal-Mart and stand exterior Wal-Mart for three days."

She listens to Britney Spears on planes to soothe her fright of flying.

Megan Fox doesn't like flight.
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"I know for a fact information technology's non my destiny to die listening to a Britney Spears album. So I ever put that on in my iPhone when I'grand flight because it won't crash as long as I've got Britney on. I developed a fear of flying when I turned 20. All of a sudden I got afraid to become on airplanes. I had to come upwardly with ways to deal with it," she explained on an episode of TBS' "Conan."

The actress besides revealed one of her less common fears during a 2009 interview with Wonderland Magazine.

"I can't stand to touch newspapers. Anything laminated is fine. Bodily dry out a-- paper I can't affect. It gives me chillbumps. It's similar nails on a chalkboard. Ughh. Or similar tissue paper. People can't impact me with dry things like that. I get really upset. It'due south something virtually how dry it is that I can't touch information technology. Those are my main fears," she said.

Fox has said she struggles with her mental health and is "completely, hysterically insecure" about her torso.

Megan Play a joke on appeared on "New Daughter."

After telling Wonderland Magazine that she's read near every book written almost Marilyn Monroe'southward life, she explained that she does worry she may have a similar fate as the late actress, who had emotional struggles.

"I constantly struggle with the thought that I recollect I'1000 a borderline personality. Or that I have bouts of mild schizophrenia. I definitely accept some kind of mental problem and I haven't pinpointed what it is. I feel like I could hands go in that direction and I need to know everything there is to know almost it because I experience similar it'll keep it from happening to me," Fox explained.

The following year, she also told Cosmopolitan that she'south confident in her personality but said that she's "completely, hysterically insecure," "cocky-loathing," "introverted," and "neurotic" about her physical appearance.

She learned to speak in tongues at church.

Megan Fox said she can speak in tongues.
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The actress told Esquire that she began speaking in tongues at church when she was around eight years old.

"The energy is so intense in the room that you experience like anything can happen," she said. "I take seen magical, crazy things happen. I've seen people exist healed. Fifty-fifty now, in the church building I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting gear up to speak in tongues, and I'd take to shut it off because I don't know what that church would practice if I started screaming out in tongues in the back."

The extra went on to describe speaking in tongues every bit "a lot of energy coming through the top of your head."

"I'm going to sound like such a lunatic — and and then your whole body is filled with this electric current. And y'all but start speaking, but you're not thinking because you take no thought what you're saying. Words are coming out of your oral cavity, and yous tin't control information technology. The idea is that it's a language that only God understands. It's the language that'southward spoken in heaven. It's called 'getting the Holy Ghost,'" she said.

Fob said that she doesn't like drugs or drinking considering they make her feel "out of control."

"I accept to feel similar I'k in control of my body. And I know what you're thinking, 'And so why would I want to go to church and speak in tongues?' You lot have to understand, in that location I experience safe. I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't experience prophylactic with myself," she explained.

Before she was an actress, she used to wearing apparel upwards as a giant banana for her job at a smoothie shop.

Megan Trick was surprised on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
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During a 2012 appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Pull a fast one on spoke about her task before she defenseless her break in the acting world.

"I worked at a little smoothie shop in Florida and I mostly worked behind the register. One time a week, usually on Fridays, someone had to dress upwardly as a fruit, a piece of fruit and go out and stand by the highway," she said. "I was a giant banana."

The actress was gaining so much attention on men-axial websites that they boycotted her for a 24-hour interval in 2009.

Megan Play a trick on rose to fame for her role in "Transformers."
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Equally she rose to fame, Trick appeared on the covers of magazines including GQ United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, Elle, Saying, and more.

In August of 2009, male-focused websites like Ask Men and Just a Guy Matter decided to have a "a Megan Play tricks media blackout day" considering the actress was getting then much exposure, according to NBC Washington.

"It's fourth dimension to give another young actress a shot at the attention. We're taking a one-day break from covering Megan's latest blast polish color and instead promoting some other 'Adjacent Large Thing,'" Eric Rogell of TheBachelorGuy.com told NBC Washington.

She had a tattoo of Marilyn Monroe'southward face on her arm but later removed it.

Megan Fox had a Marilyn Monroe tattoo.
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She had a big epitome of the tardily bombshell's confront on her forearm before deciding to get it removed.

"I started reading about her and realized that her life was incredibly difficult. It's like when you visualize something for your hereafter. I didn't desire to visualize something so negative," she told Esquire in 2013.

Play a joke on added, "She wasn't powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay [Lohan]. She was an actress who wasn't reliable, who almost wasn't insurable... She had all the potential in the globe, and it was squandered. I'm not interested in following in those footsteps."

She opened up about her relationships with women in the by and revealed that she has celebrity crushes on Olivia Wilde and Jenna Jameson.

Megan Fox opened upwardly nigh a human relationship with a woman named Nikita.
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During a 2008 interview with GQ, she recalled her human relationship with a woman named Nikita.

"Well, that year my boyfriend broke up with me, and I decided—oh man; sorry, Mommy!—that I was in dearest with this girl that worked at the Torso Shop [a strip gild on Dusk Boulevard]. I decided that I was going to become her to love me back, and I went out of my style to create a human relationship with this daughter, a stripper named Nikita," she explained.

Play a joke on continued, "I was in that location all the time—I would go in that location by myself. I bought her things—perfume, body spray, girlie stuff. I turned into a weird eye-aged married homo. I felt like I had this need to save Nikita. I'd get lap dances so I could get to know her, and I'd give her what I thought were great little audio bites of inspiration—like, 'You can do it, you're better than this!' I didn't want her to be at that place."

The actress clarified that she didn't identify every bit a fellow member of the LGBTQ community.

"I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl—Olivia Wilde is and then sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. And lately I've been obsessed with Jenna Jameson, but.… Oh boy," she said.

Trick loves comics and even draws her own.

Megan Flim-flam spoke at Comic Con.
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"My sister used to collect comics when I was a child, so I got obsessed with it through her. And I really like to depict so I'm obsessed with a lot of the artists that do comic books. It's only a good world. It makes me feel proficient. I love Comic-Con. I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a large role of my babyhood. I but enjoy it. I don't know how you couldn't savour information technology," she told Entertainment Weekly in 2009.

The actress also listed her favorite comics as"Witchblade," "Fathom," and "Gen 13" during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel.

She starred in the music video for the song "Love the Way Y'all Lie."

Megan Play a joke on stars in the music video for "Love the Way You Lie."
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In 2010, Fox starred alongside Dominic Monaghan in the music video for Eminem and Rihanna'southward song. They played a man and woman struggling with their toxic relationship.

The video received mixed reactions from critics due to its graphic portrayal of domestic abuse.

She and her hubby, Brian Austin Green, met on the set up of "Hope & Organized religion."

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green have been married since 2010.
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Flim-flam and Austin first met when the actor appeared on an episode of the sitcom "Promise & Faith." She was 18 at the time, and he was thirty.

"I liked him correct away," Play a trick on told The New York Times Magazine. "Everyone was effectually the monitor watching a scene, and Brian accidentally touched my leg. I remember literal electricity shooting through me and out me from every direction. It was like magic."

They married in 2010 and now share 3 children: Bodhi, Noah, and Journeying.

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