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Megan Fox’s personality has taken many forms since she was introduced to audiences in Transformer. She treated the same vicious cycle that afflicts all young actors. The beauty that made Fox a star became accustomed against her as her popularity waned. Making it as a female actress can be both a gift and a curse, a fact Fox recognized early in her career.
Her dissatisfaction with her status led her to consider a harrowing career change where she could be invisible and lead a normal lifestyle. But given her views on humanity as a whole and her current relationship with Machine Gun Kelly, it’s safe to say that Fox’s eccentricities would be noticed no matter what her profession.
Fox’s career is a prime example of pop culture’s abuse of women
The financial success of Transformer, Fox’s second major acting role gave her a level of security and fame that many performers only dream of. But public perception of her quickly became a cage from which she found it difficult to break out. Her striking looks were initially an asset and quickly became a problem she was never able to solve. The quality of the films she made was secondary.
Jennifer’s body is now considered a clever, feminist horror film about female sexuality, but was written off when it was first released. Fox’s language surrounding her grievances about Michael Bay’s behavior fell short – a comparison to Hitler rarely works well – but the director’s letter released in response was also bad and did real damage to Fox’s career.
Fox had the clarity to understand what was happening to her in real time. In a 2013 interview with Esquire, she opened up about the frustrations of having a persona created for you without impacting the situation. “I felt powerless in that picture,” Fox said.
“I didn’t feel powerful. It ate up every other part of my personality, not for me but for how people viewed me because there was nothing else to see or know. That devalued me. ‘Cause I was nothing I was an image. I was an image. I was a pose.”
The profile paints a picture of a woman exhausted by fame who, at the repeated behest of her agent, only reads screenplays and talks to magazine writers. She dreams of leaving Hollywood behind and pursuing another passion: archaeology.
“I feel like there are literally things buried there, where the Maya were. I want to unravel the mysteries of the universe. In my imagination.”
She has a nihilistic reason for believing in the supernatural
Fox’s interview also spends a lot of time discussing her beliefs in the paranormal. The profile begins with her and the author discussing an Aztec ritual involving human sacrifice, she mentions reading the Book of Revelation several times, and it only gets darker from there.
There’s a four-word phrase that describes her worldview: “We’re so disappointing.”
Discussing why she believes so strongly in the paranormal, Fox said, “You and I are human, that’s not all. It can’t be because we’re so disappointing,” Fox said.
Her experience of being objectified as tabloid fodder, as well as her time as a child in a Pentecostal church, left a clear mark on her psyche. Fox is deeply pessimistic about humanity, believing that we are all inherently smallpox in the world. Given how things have been going in the nearly ten years since that interview, her view has probably become more resolute since then.
What Fox believes in is the existence of extraterrestrials and other mythological creatures like goblins, the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot and the bell witch, which she refers to as “my celebrities”. “I’m childish in spirit and want to believe in fairy tales.”
Her intense relationship with Machine Gun Kelly has brought her a new form of relevance
Fox might be thinking higher about people now that she’s engaged to Machine Gun Kelly. One has to be in love to do and say most of the things they have conceded to the world.
The couple is well past the point of making up stories that are fancier than real life. Giving each other matching tattoos? Of course. Chain your fingernails together? No big deal. Drink her lover’s blood? How else would you react to putting a ring on it?
It’s very easy to giggle at Fox’s ridiculous emo melodrama and Kelly’s romance. But it’s ridiculous on her terms, something Fox appreciates deeply, having been chewed up and spat out by pop culture before.
“I knew right away that he is what I call a twin flame,” she said of her husband-to-be. “Instead of a soul mate, a twin flame is actually where a soul has ascended to a level high enough that it can split into two different bodies at once. So we’re actually two halves of the same soul I think. And I told him that almost immediately because I felt it right away.”
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