Originally appeared on E! Online
Megan Fox is getting candid about life as a teen star.
The “Jennifer’s Body” star reflected on the early years of her career — which began when she was 15 in “Holiday in the Sun” — and the negative aspects that came with reaching a new level of fame in the mid-to-late aughts.
“Oh, I don’t know that I would give myself advice,” Fox revealed during the “Jennifer’s Body” Q&A event at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles Oct. 25, per People. “I think where I was at that point in my life, so lost, so full of that rage that I had towards how I had been treated in the industry. And how I was dealing with fame.”
The mom of four — she shares Noah, 13, Bodhi, 11, and Journey, 9, with ex-husband Brian Austin Green and Saga Blade, seven months, with Machine Gun Kelly — recalled a particularly nasty exchange with a photographer following her.
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“I remember the paparazzi were so ruthless back then,” she said. “The way they would talk to women. And I walked out just to try to get to my car, and they’re all shooting. And one guy’s like, ‘Megan, why are you such a b—-?’ And another guy is like, ‘Megan, do you think you’re overrated? The internet says so,’ and I’m just trying to do my job.”
As for what was going through her head at the time?
“I was asked to be at this premiere. I’m trying to get to my car. And so I had all of this grief and sorrow and also anger and rage that needed a place to go,” Fox admitted. “And like I said, being able to just have the permission to be unhinged even in between takes or maybe the entire time we were there, that was very cathartic for me.”
It was that anger that the 39-year-old used to get into character as body-snatcher Jennifer Check in the 2009 film opposite Amanda Seyfried.
“I read this script, and I think it just resonated with me because there’s something about that whether it’s perceived or not,” she noted. “I felt like I was persecuted at that time in my career and I was struggling a lot with fame and kind of traumatized by fame.”
As she put it, “I resonated with those deeper layers of before she becomes a monster, she’s a teenage girl that gets sacrificed for somebody else’s gain. And that very much resonated because that’s kind of how I came into this industry.”
But amid looking back on that time in her life, Megan also gave the crowd an update on her private life at home with her baby girl.
“First of all, I just wanna say I just had a baby, and I have a lot of brain fog,” she joked to the audience. “So, I haven’t slept in seven months, so if I repeat myself I’m sorry, just interrupt me and tell me I’m off track.”
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