Megan Fox: I never intended to be offensive or controversial

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Here’s a quick rundown of dumb things Megan has said just in the past month: she’s schizophrenic, she used to cut herself but she’s not a cutter, she wants to stab or shoot her boyfriend Brian Austin Green, she’s an empowered feminist, she’s insecure about everything, she’ll never do nudity, she thinks Michael Bay is like Napoleon and Hitler, she thinks all men should be treated like little boys, she prefers kissing girls, and that she looks like a hippo having sex. And those are only the greatest hits. That’s not even the mundane inanities coming out of her.

Throw another dumb log onto to the fire, because Megan wants us to know she’s “fascinated” by the occult. She says: “”I find [the occult] as fascinating as religion. Getting into it is like taking a religion course in college. But I would not say that the occult has guided or influenced me in any sense of the word. I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.” Paging Xenu. This one’s ready for her audit! Megan also said she loved her outfits in Jennifer’s Body, saying “There was something so cheese-tastic about my dresses, so gross and so cheap. It was so how I used to dress when I was in high school because I had no money. It made me feel like that small-town character.” Uh… the fanboys aren’t paying any attention to your costumes, honey.

Anyway, we have entered the final stretch of Megan’s publicity tour, so hopefully she’ll be speaking a lot less in the coming months (fingers crossed). But Megan has one last message for us: Just jokes, y’all! That’s what her interview in People basically boils down to, something akin to “You know all that dumb crap I say all the time – I totes didn’t mean it! Psych!”

After developing a reputation for not only her sex appeal, but making provocative and occasionally outrageous statements in the press, Megan Fox wants you to know something about her: “I’m kidding!”

“Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming,” Fox tells PEOPLE at a fan event and autograph signing for her new film Jennifer’s Body at Hollywood’s Hot Topic store. “They’re not ever intended to be offensive or controversial.”

Fox also insists she’s not just trying to put on a saucy persona in the public eye for her own amusement. “It’s just to get through it, I think, because you want to present and you want to be available to your fans, but you also don’t want to give too much of yourself away, because people take advantage of that,” she says. “It’s learning the balance between giving the information that needs to be given, but then also protecting your privacy and your personal life, the things that you hold dear.”

Her Jennifer’s Body collaborators say they know a different side to the actress than the one in magazines and blogs. “She is incredibly professional,” says screenwriter Diablo Cody. While costar Amanda Seyfried adds: “People will be surprised to know and it will be proven very shortly when people see this movie that she’s a really talented actress.”

And even though she plays a sexually charged and very literal man-eater in the horror-comedy there’s one thing that Fox finds really scary: her power over men.

She said she first discovered that her alluring beauty gave her some sway over males when she was 12. “I think initially it’s sort of overwhelming because little girls are very much exposed to sexuality through the media and the entertainment industry and advertisements,” she says. “So when you realize that you have the same power that you’ve watched women who’ve come before you have, it is frightening and you don’t know what to do with it.”

Even now, well-established as one of Hollywood’s hottest sex symbols at age 23, she’s not at ease with her own sexual power. “I don’t think you ever get comfortable with it,” says Fox. “It’s a strange, sort of almost supernatural thing

During a Q&A session with hundreds of fans at the Hollywood & Highland shopping complex, Fox shared memories of high school that revealed even her budding sex appeal didn’t exactly elevate her status. “I was not ‘the sh-t’ in high school,” she laughs. “I was not an outcast but I didn’t have a ton of friends. I got picked on, and I ate lunch in the bathroom because I was afraid of being picked on in the cafeteria.”

“I was a loner, and I think that’s okay,” she says, and while she thinks celebrity life messages are “lame” she did offer a tidbit: “I think it’s perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.”

[From People]

I don’t think Megan should be able to get away with some half-assed “just kidding”. Some of the crap she says is just ridiculous and dumb, and I could easily wash my hands of her. But some of it is truly offensive – and there’s no “just jokes” about it. Here’s what I really think about Megan – she is a very average, boring, intensely insecure young woman with little in the way of personality. She’s a woman who is dumb enough to not have any kind of internal censor, but smart enough to make her “assets” a major calling card, at least in the short term. Long term… well, we’ll see. I don’t think Megan will be this popular in two or three years time. People will get tired of this bullsh-t after a while, I hope.

Here’s Megan Fox at a fan event on 9/16/09. There are also a couple of photos of Diablo Cody thrown in there. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

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  1. omondieu says:

    I call bullsh*t on Megan. The claim that her moronic statements are not meant to be taken seriously, and to be thought of as “charming” (really?), is a quick, half-assed way of defending herself against the criticisms against her. What else would she say in response to them?

    If she wanted to be made accessible to her fans, she wouldn’t go and offend entire groups of people (Middle America, queer women, etc.) with her idiocy. People who want to be seen as approachable are generally thoughtful, and take care to watch what comes out of their mouths. “I’m kidding!” doesn’t quite cut it.

  2. Jen says:

    Paging Xenu. This one’s ready for her audit!

    Ha that line just cracked me up!

  3. ash says:

    I think it’s hilarious how the header photos are always her in these ridiculous poses. The girls needs to just stay still.

  4. Jag says:

    I used to think she was so gorgeous, that is, until she started spewing all the crap. Unfortunately, she does say some things that I like – or think are important for kids to hear, like that it’s okay to not run with cliques, and to be yourself – so I can’t hate her.

  5. Firestarter says:

    Between her and Gosselin, I am sooooo sick of hearing from them and about them.

    Oh yeah, and who could forget her lovely comment from several months back that the midwest should not exist because everyone is uneducated, fat and has no idea about the rest of the world.

  6. yeng says:

    i have to give her credit. she knows how to get the spotlight on her, but what else does one expect from an attention-seeking, insecure twit?? too bad she’s not all too creative with some of her “charming” statements. she’s taking pages from the jolie freak bio.

    “… she is a very average, boring, intensely insecure young with little in the way of personality.”

    don’t say that to some of her die-hard fans. they buy that she has a “personality,” and that she’s “real” and “honest.” actually, the girl is as real as her plastic face.

  7. lilred says:

    This just in Megan Fox lies to stay relevant! ( I know I was shocked too)

  8. Hieronymus Grex says:

    But she did intend to be stupid, so…

  9. cakes says:

    Its a good thing shes pretty. It seems like she put her brains last on the list of “things to develop”.

  10. Belle Bella says:

    I’m sorry but I like her. I believe that she gets asked a zillion stupid questions every day and just answers them with whatever pops into her mind. I think she realizes that she isn’t working to cure cancer so the amount of attention she receives is ridiculous and likewise the amount of thought it takes to answer a People magazine interview question is equally ridiculous. You can’t argue the fact that she is drop dead gorgeous. I think the constant ragging on her is a little “mean girl”. What’s Megan Fox to do? “The popular girls” don’t want her because sometimes too clever and not vapid enough and “the brainy girls” don’t want her because she’s too hot and can screw whoever she pleases. She’s like Diane Court in the movie Say Anything– “She’s a brain.
    Trapped in the body of a game-show hostess.”

  11. GatsbyGal says:

    “She’s a woman who is dumb enough to not have any kind of internal censor, but smart enough to make her “assets” a major calling card”

    In other words, she’s every chick you will ever meet at the bar right around closing time.

  12. posterboy says:

    I never thought she was particularly attractive, except in a cheap kind of way, and I used to dislike her intensely but now I’m beginning to feel kind of sorry for her.

  13. Squirtle says:

    Hahahahahahaa GatsbyGal, good call!

    “I was just kidding about that whole cutting on myself thing I said before, but wasn’t that funny! People who intentionally inflicted pain on themselves always makes me laugh, just like serious psychological disorders such as schizophrenia and of course the knee slapper comments I made about working for Hitler!”

    Of course… Hilarious.

  14. yeng says:

    hahaha. now, she’s being compared to ione skye’s character from “say anything”? oh, dear. that’s just too hilarious. from what i remember from the movie, diane court never had to gargle a foot down her throat nor did ione ever look like a blow-up plastic doll.

    and again with the jealousy card. oy.

  15. Jenna says:

    She does look quite pretty in these pictures. That is all.

  16. the original kate says:

    “The popular girls” don’t want her because sometimes too clever and not vapid enough and “the brainy girls” don’t want her because she’s too hot and can screw whoever she pleases.”

    ummm….it’s real life, not a john hughes movie.

  17. @Belle Bella: I have to disagree with your assessment of her beauty. I don’t think she is that attractive. She’s kind of pretty, but there’s something about her face that really bothers me, so, yes, I can argue the “fact” that she’s drop-dead gorgeous because I don’t think that she is. She is being asked a lot of questions because she has a movie coming out, and since she’s not the first young actress to be bombarded with questions, it’s a pretty paltry excuse to say that she says stupid things because of the press.

    I have never been a fan of Megan Fox, but I wish she would be more cognizant of what she says to the press. You don’t really get take-backs when it comes to celebrity press, and she’s been around Hollywood long enough to know that she needs to stop this behavior. If she’s relevant in five years, I’ll be surprised.

  18. gg says:

    pretetious overexposed cow. Her tatts make her look like a sidewalk. somebody please make her stfu.

  19. pitchforks says:

    Not a fan, but what did she do that’s so outrageous? She slammed a director whom many before have slammed and is notorious for being a jerk? What else? A guy wouldn’t be slammed for being outspoken, i.e. Gerard Butler says the most uncouth insane idiotic things and you all just ooh and aah over him.

    “Original Kate” got it right. You all sound nasty. At least criticize with some intelligence. And Gatsby Gal has got to be a guy, or a very mannish angry gal.

  20. Kphillips says:

    She is too young to be politically correct ALL THE TIME. She’s only 23! Come one people. From the tone of some of the things she has been quoted as saying you know she’s joking. Like she doesn’t have a gun because she knows she’d shoot BAG. Not to kill but just in the leg or something. I thought that was hilarious. I think people take what she says way too seriously. If she is still saying things like this in a few years after she has matured, then I may start to worry for her.

    I’m not going to argue whether she’s smart or not, or whether she’s hot or not. It doesn’t matter. She’s still a celebrity and will continue to do press. I’m sure there will be more crazy Fox quotes in the future to entertain us.

  21. Sally says:

    Belle Bella, pitchforks. You guys make me lol. 😀

    Some things she might be joking about, but some things you shouldn’t talk lightly about. Schizophrenia, self-mutilation. It doesn’t take “intelligence” to be critical about something like that. Just common sense.

    And “She’s a brain. Trapped in the body of a game-show hostess”? For that she’d require a brain which functioned on a higher level; she sure hasn’t shown evidence of that thus far.

  22. GatsbyGal says:

    @ pitchforks: “And Gatsby Gal has got to be a guy, or a very mannish angry gal.”

    Perhaps, but you didn’t say I was wrong.

  23. gg says:

    Her frontal lobe filtering mechanism needs more exercise.

  24. Ana says:

    I too am turned off by her idiotic comments. Now all I see is a vapid woman.
    If she was smart, classy in addition to beautiful I would be so jealous of her.
    But now I just wish she would shut up and look pretty.
    What is so wrong with getting attention for being beautiful and smart? She wants to be controversial because it gets her attention. It reeks of desperation.
    Some of the stuff she “jokes about” downplay the real problems that other people have.

  25. lola lola says:

    Who did this woman screw to get her career?

  26. GatsbyGal says:

    @lola lola – Michael Bay.

  27. Jeniffer says:

    I get it if you don’t like the girl, but then why do u have like 70 posts about her?? you are obssessed with hating her. I mean, i bet that if Megan was not as pretty as she is you would not be hating so much,if she’s stupid and all then just leave it be, for real, you are making yourself more and more bitter.