Megan Fox: Hollywood’s outrageous it girl

The scene was one of barely controlled pandemonium at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month. A crush of paparazzi and screaming teenage fans had mobbed the Canadian cultural capital’s Ryerson Theatre for the premiere of “Jennifer’s Body,” the horror-comedy written by Oscar-winning “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody.

But the glitzy event’s undeniable focal point was a femme fatale of a different stripe: Megan Fox. The screen siren worked the red carpet like a veteran, frequently turning and posing so the asymmetrical hem of her strapless mini-dress showed as much bare thigh as possible. “This is outrageous,” Cody told a reporter. “It’s a little intense.”Fox portrays a demon-girl cheerleader who devours her horny high school classmates in the film, which hit theaters Friday and earned a lackluster $6.8 million at the box office over the weekend. But her movie stardom is almost beside the point. Fox is becoming to the current generation what Farrah Fawcett was during her ’70s heyday or Pamela Anderson was at the apogee of her “Baywatch”/Tommy Lee sex-tape fame in the ’90s. That is, a sex symbol of the highest order: a woman whose hotness has become emblematic of a specific era. Call Fox the first bona fide sex symbol of the 21st century.

There are a handful of salient facts about her that have exploded into the public consciousness, mainly because the 23-year-old, Tennessee-born ingenue has said them for maximum effect in numerous magazine cover stories. It’s helped that the articles invariably arrive accompanied by suggestive photos of Fox in a bikini or lingerie or Daisy Duke shorts, or in a towel that leaves just enough to the imagination after you close the magazine.

What we have come to know so far: She carried on a lesbian love affair with a Russian stripper at 18; Fox was once “obsessed” with porn star Jenna Jameson; Fox struggles with the idea she has a “mild form of schizophrenia,” fearing she’ll wind up like her idol, Marilyn Monroe (whose face is tattooed on Fox’s right inner forearm); and Fox “was always ubersexual.”

Which is just as well because at least once over the course of each of these stories, the model turned actress, who was named sexiest woman in the world last year by FHM magazine, will say she is at peace with being a sex symbol. “I know I’m seen as a sex object,” Fox told Esquire. “I’m just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It’s just there. It’s something I don’t have to turn on.”

While other on-screen ingenues, models and TV stars are undeniably attractive — foxy, even — few outside Fox (nickname: “Mega Fox”) can be viewed as having embraced the adulation as a means to an end in itself. While, say, Jessica Biel laments in an interview that being named sexiest woman alive has been a liability to her stated goal of being a serious actress, Fox abides.

“I didn’t decide I’m going to be an actress ’cause I want to be respected for how I play chess,” Fox told “Entertainment Tonight.” “Part of Hollywood is being perceived as attractive.”

Source: Chicago Tribune

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