Megan Fox is sick and tired of being a Hollywood bombshell. But the fact that she’s posing in lingerie for the new issue of Esquire doesn’t seem to be helping.
The new mom, who gave birth to son Noah with husband Brian Austin Green in September, flaunts her famous figure for the February issue, revealing that she’ll never play a stereotypical hot girl again.
"I felt powerless in that image," Fox explains of her roles in movies such as "Transformers." "I didn’t feel powerful. It ate every other part of my personality, not for me but for how people saw me, because there was nothing else to see or know. That devalued me. Because I wasn’t anything. I was an image. I was a picture. I was a pose."
The 26-year-old has started to take on funnier characters in comedies like "This Is 40" and "Friends with Kids," which is the direction she hopes to stay in. She doesn’t want to turn out to be just another sexy star — like her former idol, Marilyn Monroe. Foxremoved her tattoo of the icon because she feels Monroe is no longer the right kind of role model.
"I started reading about her and realized that her life was incredibly difficult. It’s like when you visualize something for your future. I didn’t want to visualize something so negative," Fox tells Esquire, comparing Monroe to troubled actress Lindsay Lohan.
"She wasn’t powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay," Fox continues. "She was an actress who wasn’t reliable, who almost wasn’t insurable … She had all the potential in the world, and it was squandered," she says, "I’m not interested in following in those footsteps."
Still, Fox knows what it’s like to be in the spotlight and realizes that every celebrity faces criticism on a daily basis.
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