Megan Fox Lives in a 'Glass Box'
"I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb."
Megan Fox doesn't want to be Megan Fox anymore. At least not the parody of herself she's created for all of us. In a new interview with The New York Times, Fox gets candid about what it's like to always be playing the part, and why she's had it up to here.
Fox, 23, has skyrocketed to the top of Hollywood's list of bombshells, and she's done it without having the typical look of blonde buxomness. She's also a bit of a firecracker, a fact that has gotten her in trouble with Michael Bay of all people, director of the Transformers movies.
Still, according to Fox, her biggest critics are just other girls.
"Women tear each other apart," she says. "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."
The actress says she lives in a "glass box" of sorts, because she only gets paid to have men look at her. Still, this is only a mask she puts on in order to appease the apes.
"When I sit down to talk to men’s magazines, there’s a certain character that I play," Fox explained. "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."
To read the entire interview, along with Megan's ideas about the life of celebrities ("it's like being a sacrificial lamb") and why she's sick of being compared to Angelina Jolie, check out the article from the NYT.
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