Last week, the horrible news broke that Lindsay Lohan is in ongoing talks to play the iconic Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime movie. Indeed, it’s a dreadful proposition to think that a (relatively, in Hollywood terms) classy woman like Liz could possibly be portrayed by a desperate ex-actress who still crashes Globe parties like a crackhead loser. Well, the casting equation has become even further muddled, for now it seems that Lohan has some interesting new competition in the form of Megan Fox. Yes, you read that correctly:

It appears Lindsay Lohan isn’t the only starlet in talks to play Elizabeth Taylor.

Although the Mean Girls star confirmed she is still up for the role in the buzz-worthy biopic to E! News Sunday night at the Weinstein Company Golden Globes after party, we’ve learned Lohan has some competition by way of Megan Fox.

“I’ve been talking to Lindsay Lohan directly, and with her reps, and have been in conversations with other actresses, including Megan Fox,” Larry Thompson, the executive producer of Lifetime’s Liz and Dick, told E! News exclusively.

Thompson declined to elaborate further on specifics of the negotiations, but added that being in talks with more than one actress is not meant as an affront to the talent involved, but rather is simply de rigueur for projects of this nature.

“It’s a very serious selection,” Thompson continued. “It’s like casting for Hollywood royalty.”

And speaking of serious, a source tells E! News that while Lohan is still one of the frontrunners for the role, her probation status is “a complication.”

Lohan, who is on probation until the end of March, is due back in court Tuesday morning to face the judge in a probation status update hearing.

So, when will we know which star nabbed the role?

Rather soon, since the filmmaker plans to start shooting the movie in Canada as soon as this spring.

[From E! Online]

Say what you want about Megan Fox. Although I’ve grown to like her as a person, it’s rather obvious that, as a leading lady, she’s an exquisitely beautiful yet extremely unaware actress. If you think I’m being too hard on her, well, then you must not have seen Passion Play (which by the way, is available on Netflix Instant Watch if you’re curious). Still, Megan is working hard to get back into Hollywood’s good graces with a turn on Broadway plus supporting roles in both The Dictator and Friends With Kids. At least we know that Megan would show up on set every day and show some semblance of professionalism. She lives a quiet domestic life with her husband and therefore wouldn’t be clubbing until 3am like someone else. Also unlike Lindsay, Megan’s completely over the Marilyn Monroe obsession. That’s gotta count for something, right?

And at least Megan looks the part in a more physical sense.

Whereas Lindsay just looks like a crackhead wearing a Liz Taylor wig.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN, and Interview mag

After the raging financial and critical success of Bridesmaids, Universal is obviously keen to develop a sequel even if Kristin Wiig isn’t on board, which she reportedly isn’t for the forseeable future. Melissa McCarthy has stepped up to declare that a Wiig-less sequel is a terrible idea, and she’s correct. Still, that doesn’t mean that Universal is above capitalizing upon a striking-hot iron, even if it results in certain disaster.

In the meantime, half of the cast of Bridesmaids appears in an upcoming movie, Friends with Kids, which now has a new trailer. The movie is written, produced, and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jesica Stein), who is known best around these parts as “Jon Hamm’s girlfriend.” Westfeldt also stars in the film, which also stars Adam Scott and features Hamm along with Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd, Edward Burns, and Megan Fox. The story is basically that Westfeldt and Scott’s characters are thirtysomething BFFs who aren’t into each other romantically but decide to have a kid together and pursue future relationships with other people. Yeah, we already know where this is going, right? Here’s the movie’s official synopsis anyway:

Friends With Kids is a daring and poignant ensemble comedy about a close-knit circle of friends at that moment in life when children arrive and everything changes. The last two singles in the group observe the effect that kids have had on their friends’ relationships and wonder if there’s a better way. They decide to have a kid together – and date other people.

There are big laughs and unexpected emotional truths as this unconventional “experiment” leads everyone in the group to question the nature of friendship, family and, finally, true love.

And here’s the trailer for the Friends with Kids:

The movie looks charming enough (for a matinee viewing) but, unfortunately, the trailer renders the entire plot utterly predictable, and I think a YouTube commenter said it best: “Well i have literally seen the entire film. good job. Now i dont have to waste my money.” Still, this looks like an okay way to pass a few hours for fans of the talent involved. Jon Hamm also sat down with Collider to talk about what Westfeldt went through to make this movie and how he helped her as much as possible:

On Getting Friends with Kids Made: “It was tough. Part of it was a little bit self imposed because we wanted to make this movie this year. Normally you go, ‘Well, we will make it when we can make it. We will make it when we get the money, and then we get the thing, and then we will cast it. We will see how long that takes and then we will make it.’ But we were like, ‘We are going to make it in this chunk of time because of my schedule and the schedules of other people that we wanted to be in it.’ So we kind of did it ass backwards where we were like, ‘We are going to do it in this number of time! What do you we need?’ and it was like, ‘Well, you need money, people, and cameras.’ And it was just like, ‘Okay. We have twenty minutes to get all of that together!’ So we set ourselves up to fail miserably. But due to Jen’s incredible hard work, diligence, effort, talent, and charm we were able to call in favors and basically move mountains and do the impossible to get this done, and we did. We shot it in 24 days and we shot it in one of the worst winters that New York has see in 30 some odd years with snow every couple of weeks. We were digging out grip trucks and the lenses had frozen over and we were like, ‘Okay. Well, let’s get a hair dryer on the lens and we will dig up the truck while we are defrosting the lens and then we will be fine. Hopefully the trains will be running by then and we can get some PAs and people up here.’ So it was a challenge. It was a tremendous challenge, but it was exciting in that way that independent film can be. It was like, ‘Well, no one else is going to do it. So we have to do it.’ That was kind of my capacity. Obviously, Jen had her plate very full with directing, starring, producing, and writing the film. So my job was to take out as much from her backpack so that she could stand up straight and share the load a little bit, and hopefully I did.”

[From Collider]

Wasn’t that, for lack of a better word, sweet of Jon to do everything humanly possible to help his girlfriend get this movie made? It sounds like he really believes in her abilities too instead of just helping out the chick he’s sleeping with on a long term basis. Basically, he sounds like the perfect boyfriend.

Oh yes, and I almost forgot to talk about Megan Fox, who is shaking things up by not only playing a hooker in The Dictator but also by playing “the new girlfriend” in this movie. Poor Megan is going to have to fight to get anywhere else in Hollywood, and I’m afraid she just doesn’t have the skills to do it. Friends with Kids opens March 9th.

Movie stills courtest of Collider

The following statements could sound terribly sexist, but it’s not intended that way in any shape or form. You see, I am terribly disappointed in Megan Fox. Admittedly, part of this sentiment could stem from the fact that I caught Passion Play on Netflix last weekend. In that film (which came after the Transformers movies and was intended to prove her range), she was completely awful while portraying an innocent, baby-voiced angel/bird-woman who inexplicably made love to Mickey Rourke’s trumpet player before gangster Bill Murray busted and and broke up the hasty love affair. Truly, all parties involved should be ashamed.

Still, Fox has much more to lose at this point in her career than either Murray or Rourke, and I am starting to rethink my prior endorsement of Fox in the face of Michael Bay-Gate. Admittely, I had moderately high hopes when she signed on for a cameo in Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator. Now, the trailer for that movie has arrived; and well, the film itself looks overwrought in terms of satirical humor that’s well past its due date. No surprise there. However, in terms of Megan Fox’s attempts to prove her acting mettle, she has spectacularly failed:

Honestly, this film could’ve been much more, and it could just be a case of bad editing as far as what the trailer presents the movie itself to be. To be fair, The Dictator will probably fare as well as Bruno, which made made about half globally as Borat did, at the box office. In other words, Sacha Baron Cohen will be fine. He’s not going to be the permanent fixture that Borat would have projected, but he’s got a career etched in virtual stone and has influenced a terrible Ben Affleck hairdo to boot.

Now as to Megan Fox? She’s worked terribly hard in recent months to repair her image with the general public. She spent Veterans Day tending to actual veterans, erased that dreadful Marilyn tattoo, and gained some weight after giving up veganism. Then, she squanders all of said goodwill by bedding Cohen’s dictator and making a Kardashian joke — “What’s this? A ruby? Is that a joke? What am I, a Kardashian?” — about necessarily accepting jewels after sex.

Okay, so it’s a mildly funny joke. Still, Megan’s agent could’ve scored her a better post-Bay gig than that, right?

Photos courtesy of WENN and AllMoviePhoto

When Megan Fox started getting a lot of publicity and attention – circa 2008-09 – everyone began noticing her totally busted and cheap-looking Marilyn Monroe tattoo. Megan got Marilyn’s disembodied head tattooed on her right forearm years ago, when she was 18 years old (she’s currently 25). My problem was two-fold: one, I’m sick of young starlets idolizing Marilyn Monroe and getting tattoos to mark their obsession with this damaged and fascinating woman. Two, Megan’s tattoo was just ugly and tacky. Anyway, in the past year, Megan’s Marilyn tattoo has been looking increasingly “faded”. Now Megan has confirmed that she’s getting it taken off:

Who says tattoos are forever? Megan Fox is having her iconic Marilyn Monroe tattoo removed from her inner right arm — and said it’s because she’s growing up.

“I’m just over it,” Fox told reporters after her performance in Montblanc’s 24-Hour Plays in New York on Monday. “You outgrow things that you love when you were a child. I got it when I was 18 and now I’m 25 and it just doesn’t make sense anymore.”

But the removal of something that was once so important to her isn’t painless. “It’s a hundred times worse than the tattoo itself,” she admitted. “I’ve only done one [session] so I probably have three or four left.”

Although Fox has other tattoos, including a Shakespeare reference on her shoulder and husband Brian Austin Green’s name on her hip, she won’t put anything over Monroe’s fading face once treatments are completed.

In fact, she believes it’ll be impossible to tell she ever had a tattoo at all.

“I think it will come off completely because I have the right skin type to remove ink,” she said. “The more fair skinned you are the easier it is to remove dark ink, and I’m as fair as it gets.”

[From People]

Remember how long it took for Angelina Jolie to get that “Billy Bob Thornton” tatt taken off of her arm? You could still see his name faintly, even years after they were over, and I think Angelina even wore makeup to cover it sometimes. I believe that’s the same arm where she now has her kids’ latitude and longitude numbers, right? Anyway, Megan just made me think about it. I don’t have a problem with people taking off their tattoos, especially when the tattoos are hideous. And I’m so happy that Megan has “outgrown” her Marilyn thing. Maybe she can have a word with Lindsay Lohan.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

So we continue upon the career evolution of Megan Fox, “Megan 2.0: The Supporting Actress Years,” which has already seen such strange happenings as Megan showing true clarity and taking the proverbial high road while both Michael Bay and Shia LeBeouf continued to trash her in the wake of the Transformers: Dark of the Moon release.

No big deal though, for Megan shall perservere to such lengths as taking the tried and true “do theater” recommendation of improving one’s acting career to heart. She makes her very own (gulp) Broadway debut in 24 Hour Plays. But let’s not jump the gun just yet, for the production is a 10th annual one-night-only show:

On Her Stage Debut: “I don’t have the stomach for [the stage]. It takes a very brave, courageous person, and I’m too neurotic. I wouldn’t survive an entire run of a play.”

But she survived the full 24 hours Monday night at the American Airlines Theater. Unlike some of her fellow actors, who used Absolut vodka to calm their nerves, Fox (who doesn’t drink) stuck to her Chinese herbs. Why was a group of established actors — including Jesse Eisenberg, David Cross, Rosie Perez and Michael K. Williams — so terrified? Consider the show’s premise.

The 24 Hour Plays — a show sponsored by [Tracy Morgan] Montblanc to benefit the Urban Arts Partnership — teams up writers, actors and directors for 24 hours, during which time they have to create six plays, to be performed on Broadway the following night. Twenty-four hours to write, direct, memorize lines and act, all for an audience hoping to see you break character. That is, after all, part of the voyeuristic fun of it — the chance to see big-name Hollywood actors at their most vulnerable.

Fox’s play, The Maid, is a surrealist comedy featuring Sarah Silverman and Fox as rabbits, Paul Bettany as a high-maintenance millionaire, Jack McBrayer essentially reprising his role on “30 Rock” (this time as a maid) and Tracy Morgan in a cameo as Tracy Morgan.

On Her Strengths: “I definitely, for live theater, would prefer doing comedy as opposed to something heavy and dramatic, because I just don’t have the nerves to pull something like that off.”

The actors were required to bring a prop with them to the theater, which the writers could integrate into the script. Fox wanted to bring Sting, Frodo’s sword from Lord of the Rings, but foresaw trouble at LAX and settled on a Bop It. Her prop didn’t end up in the play, but it did display her sense of humor, which she cites as one of her stronger points: “Everybody that knows me thinks I”m funny.”

On The Pressure Of 24 Hours: “If you mess up, you sort of mess up everyone else’s experience as well, and you can’t reset. It’s frightening. Everyone is so completely terrified, even the people who have done it several times. But I was really impressed with how very relaxed Sarah was, and obviously I don’t think Tracy’s ever been nervous in his life.”

On Her Most Relaxed Moments: As for Fox, her most relaxed moments in life come “when [she's] not PMSing or ovulating — those two weeks in between.”

On Her Unrelaxed Moments: “I hate doing the red carpets. It’s all about what you’re wearing and how you look, and I don’t know anyone who’s super comfortable and confident in doing that. I mean I do know a few people, but it’s not the norm.”

[From HuffPo]

Megan is either growing up or getting some good advice from people who understand the media circus and all of its necessary derivatives. In this interview, she says absolutely nothing derogatory about any of her bosses or costars. See? She’s learning (and meanwhile, Michael Bay is still King of the Douchebags).

As a sidenote, Megan has just popped over to Moscow, Russia, where she stood alongside the likes of Clive Bloody Owen to launch the Vertu Constellation Quest, which bills itself as “the world’s most exquisite phone.” Naturally, the Daily Mail makes noises about the fact that Megan and Clive are both in attendance so, naturally, they must be screwing each other. Give me a break. Regardless of whatever the Mail happens to be cooking up, it truly appears that Megan is on the path to career redemption. Here she is with fellow cast members Paul Bettany, Jack McBrayer, Patricia McGregor, Sarah Silverman and Tracy Morgan. It’s only temporary, right?

Also, Megan looks really pretty in these photographs, so congrats to her for laying off the Botox:

Finally, here are a few more photos from Megan’s Veteran’s Day extravaganza:

Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN

Megan Fox did something surprisingly nice for Veteran’s Day, which was Friday – she actually went out of her way to spend time with veterans. Seriously! Megan and her husband Brian Austin Green went to The Veterans’ Home of California – these are some photos from the visit. Considering that I can’t see that any major female celebrity actually did a something nice for veterans on Veteran’s Day, I have to say… good for Megan! That’s really nice of her.

It’s pretty smart too, if you want me to look beyond the face-value “that’s nice” sentiment. Megan and her team are trying to ensure that she mixes up her image from surly, petty, foot-in-mouth chick to “supporting actress with a solid career who does good works”. Oh, and there was a rumor going around that Megan and Brian were splitting up too, so two birds with one stone (or photo op).

Regardless of any ulterior motives, however, it was just really nice to visit with the retired soldiers. Well done, Megan. Also, well done on her appearance too – meaning her 2011 Face, which doesn’t look tweaked into oblivion in these candid shots. She’s also put on a little weight, which looks great on her. I feel like… she’s trying to win me over? Maybe at some point. Here’s hoping!

Photos courtesy of Fame.

As you may remember, Rihanna was just named as the replacement-crotch for Armani, taking over from Megan Fox. I welcomed Rihanna because she 1) eats and 2) doesn’t have a cat-face that changes month after month, year after year because of so much surgical and Botox intervention. However, once I got sight of the Rihanna-Armani ads, I was disappointed. They put her in a dumb blonde wiglet, and she looked like crap, which proves to me that whoever is in charge of Armani’s ad campaigns is a total moron. So…with that in mind, check out Armani’s new Beauty 2011 Christmas Collection ads, with Megan Fox. Yes, while Megan was replaced at the spokescrotch of Armani’s underwear and jeans lines, she’s still the official cat-face of Armani beauty products, so these ads are designed to get you to buy Armani makeup for your lady friends for Christmas.

I have to say… these ads aren’t as spooky and alien-like as some of Megan’s previous ones. Maybe I’m just getting used to her Official 2011 Face, or maybe the Photoshop wizards were having an off day, but Megan actually looks recognizable in these ads. She also looks surprisingly Caucasian – in the last set, I could have sworn Megan was Asian. Still, there is something busted about Megan’s face. Just because it’s not as bad as it used to be, it’s not a significant improvement.

Photos courtesy of Dlisted, Megan’s fansite.

Yesterday, Kaiser brought us news of Megan Fox, a.k.a., “Megan 2.0: The Supporting Actress Years,” who has evidently taken some public relations lessons and now speaks quite rationally in terms of waiting to have a baby until she makes more money. In addition, Megan also recently quit her restrictive vegan diet and has subsequently gained a few pounds, which makes her look a lot more human. Here’s a question though — why would a vegan have ever claimed to eat red velvet cake every night before bed? Sure, maybe it’s an adapted “vegan” recipe, but Megan has also said that she’ll starve to death before cooking for herself, so I imagine that her version of veganism was a lot of raw food and, basically, not eating much at all. Why am I even bothering to question Fox’s words? It’s not that I think Megan Fox is a liar, but I do believe that she has a history of making sh*t up in interviews (like when she claimed to be “OCD”), and that’s hard to forget. She probably didn’t say all that wacky stuff out of any malicious intent, but I have a hunch that she’s probably socially awkward to a degree and resorted to making things up to sound more entertaining during interviews.

At any rate, Megan is trying to revamp her reputation in the industry, so during her TIFF promotional duties for Friends With Kids, Fox sat down with Moviefone to discuss her relief at not only trying her hand at ensemble comedy but also playing a character who is “not a jerk” and is “more human” than those she’s taken on before. She also expresses concern that people view her as “a robot,” but that impression might be less about her previous roles and more about her botoxed, Photoshopped face. Just saying.

Speaking of humanization, a strange thing happened during the recent promotion for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon; that is, the boorish behavior of Michael Bay and Shia LeBeouf, which was geared towards promoting the film at the expense of humiliating Megan, actually caused a lot of people to feel sorry for her. Yes, she deserved to be fired for badmouthing Bay in the press, but she didn’t deserve the promotional mudslinging from Bay. She also didn’t deserve to be called a Spice Girl feminist by Shia, nor did he have any right to expose their prior hookup(s) in a Details interview. However upset that Megan might have been about all of this “Boys Club” behavior, she kept her mouth shut in an unprecedented display of restraint. Now, Megan tells Moviefone what she was really thinking during that whole mess:

On Why She Didn’t Defend Herself Against Shia’s Words: I didn’t want to talk about it while they’re on the press tour because I didn’t want to try to throw mud at them. I didn’t want that movie to suffer. Especially because I love Shia. I wanted that movie to do well for him. I didn’t want to have this big media war over something that really was so silly and it would have just been my ego needing to engage in a war, at that point. Of course, there will be a time when I want to tell my side of the story. I just don’t feel it was appropriate while they were promoting the movie. Like, “She’s trying to take away from the movie.” So it was best to let them say what they were going to say. It’s fine.

On Watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon: I haven’t seen it yet, but I will see it. I mean, if they hadn’t been hitting me so hard on the press tour, I would have gone to the theater. But I felt like that would have been a disaster: Me sitting with a packed theater of people watching the movie. So I didn’t go. I mean, I have nothing against watching it. And I love Shia to death; I love him unconditionally. And I love that crew. I’m really close to the hair, makeup and wardrobe that made that movie. I want to see it for them. I know it looked amazing in the trailer. Out of all three trailers, that was the trailer that I was like, “Wow, sh*t, this is a huge movie.” So I think it will be an interesting, fun thing to watch, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

On Her Past Interviews: That’s sort of the most … like the feeling of betrayal — that you have as a celebrity or an actor or entertainer — I think comes from meeting with journalists and feeling like, Hey, I had a good conversation with you, then you read the article and it’s like, Wow! Well, that’s not the angle that I thought you were going to take. You need to sell this magazine, I understand, but, sh*t, I just didn’t realize it was going to go in that direction. So you have to become a little bit jaded with press in that sense. You have to just guard yourself, because you never know what people are going to do. Like I said, I used to have a lot of fun in interviews — I’d be playful, I’d be sarcastic. But there’s too much room for someone to take what I was saying and cut it up, rearrange it, and throw it on “Extra.” It’s insane. You have to be really strong. You have to just shut yourself off to the criticism at some point.

On Being “More Human” In Friends With Kids: I just think the idea is that because most of the way that people have seen me, it’s the glorified pin-up girl with motorcycle boots who is also fighting to save the world. It’s not necessarily someone who you connect with because they’re not real people necessarily who exist like that — the glossy lips in the middle of the desert. In Jennifer’s Body I was this crazy — it’s this wonderful Diablo Cody script, but it’s so kooky and so weird and I was eating people. It’s just a very strange movie. You don’t necessarily see the human side of whoever is playing that person. And I just think the media, in general, I just don’t really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic. Or I sort of am portrayed as this — I feel — like a self-absorbed ice queen. Maybe. And I think the people who see me in a role that allows me to be more human — I don’t know another word to use to describe it — is why people are saying it’s a good move to have done.

For the most part I’m really strong with how much bullsh*t I had piled upon me for so long. But, you know, I care about people. I care about my life and I love people. I’m not this robot. I feel people think I’m almost like a robot — like an android. And that I’m all about me and my thoughts are all about me. That I want to be famous. I know one thing I’ve heard a lot is, “Does she say the things that she says because she wants attention? It’s attention-seeking.” But I always felt like, if that were the case, wouldn’t I display some sort of attention-seeking behavior, which I’ve never done. I’ve always tried to live a really normal, private, quiet life. So I just think I’ve always really allowed room for the media to sort of chop my words and put their own narrative on it and create this salacious sound bite that goes everywhere. And because of that I feel like people just have no idea what I’m like or who I am. I feel like it’s a mystery. Which is OK. It could be a good thing. But obviously there are times when you struggle with it because being misunderstood 90 percent of the time is difficult because you want to clarify. But you deal with it.

[From Moviefone]

Yes, Megan’s getting some good PR advice right now, and it’s flowing into this interview. She sounds more mature than ever before, and I hope the trend continues. She very nearly almost slipped up while talking about her role in Jennifer’s Body but redeemed herself by praising Diablo Cody’s script. So Megan is steadily learning to play the Hollywood game, which at least gives her some promise towards not messing up any possible goodwill that she might earn in these ensemble comedies that she’s got going on right now. Hopefully, her role in The Dictator with Sacha Baron Cohen will take her a few places as well. Of course, I admit that I’m secretly rooting for Megan Fox not so much for herself but because it would be nice to watch Michael Bay eat his words someday too. After all, something needs to take that douchebag down someday.

Photos courtesy of WENN and AllMoviePhoto

Megan Fox was just in Toronto to promote her supporting part in Friends With Kids, the film written and directed by Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm’s girlfriend/partner of a decade. The Hamm is in the movie too – so The Hamm and Megan Fox have officially made a movie together. The end is nigh! But I digress. Our agencies didn’t have any photos of The Hamm or Megan Fox in Toronto, unfortunately, so below I’ve just included older photos of Megan in yet another red dress, back when she was showing off her 2010 Face. Her June 2010 Face, to be more specific.

Anyway, the film was actually pretty well-received in Toronto – you can read one glowing review here, at Showbiz 411, where Westfeldt’s script is compared to something Woody Allen would have written, and words like “fresh” and “well-drawn characters” are thrown around. No specific praise for Megan, but I think Megan’s career reboot is probably pretty smart – she’s not going to carry a film for a while, so she’s trying to choose smaller parts in better scripts. Speaking of Megan 2.0: The Supporting Actress Years, Megan has given a new interview where she discusses babies and whether she’s saved enough money to take a few years off to have a little BAG-baby.

Former Transformers star Megan Fox has revealed she wants to have kids – when she’s got enough money saved in the bank. The 25-year-old star, whose career nosedived after she was sacked from the latest Transformers film, said she wants to be financially secure before becoming a mother.

She revealed her hopes for the future while promoting her latest film Friends with Kids, a comedy about couples whose lives are altered when they become parents.

She said: ‘I want to have children — I absolutely want biological children, I’ve always wanted kids, it’s just about the timing being right. I have a number in my mind of what amount of money I want in the bank so that I can protect that child’s future and really protect it so that kid never struggles. Once I feel safe with that, then I’ll have kids.’

Fox, who married actor Brian Green a year ago, is already step mum to his nine year old son Kassius from a previous relationship. The actress, once tipped as the hottest star in Hollywood, has suffered a series of career setbacks after Steven Spielberg personally ordered her to be sacked from Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

It followed an interview the actress gave about director Michael Bay when she described him as being like Hitler on the set. As executive producer Spielberg, who is Jewish and made the Holocaust epic ‘Schindler’s List’, told Bay to fire her from the $120m film and she was replaced by British model Rosie Huntington-Whitely. Fox’s other recent films Jennifer’s Body and Jonah Hex also bombed at the box office.

But speaking at the Toronto film festival in Canada Fox accepted that her career had not been all hits.

‘Careers sort of go up and down, not everybody makes a hit,’ she said.

Fox also confessed that if she had not made it as an actress she would have wanted to be an archaeologist.

She said she was fascinated by the subject and had taken several Egyptology classes and has even considered studying it full time after quitting acting.

‘I would want to be an archaeologist — and I want to still do that now… it holds the answers!’

[From The Mail]

I was actually thinking about Megan and money the other day, wondering if she had been smart with her investments and stocked away part of her Transformers paychecks. When you go and look through her filmography, you quickly realize that the only major paychecks Megan has had are probably from Transformers 1 and 2, and maybe Jennifer’s Body, although she probably took a pay cut for that film. Plus, her modeling contracts, I guess. Sure, in her heyday (2008-2010), she was probably making about $10 million a year, but Megan isn’t doing all of this on her own – she’s got a large team of people working for her, and they all have to get paid too. And then you’ve got to figure out how much all of that tweaking and surgery costs. Basically, she might not have much of a savings left. Poor Megan.

As for her desire to wait for a while to have a baby – well, she’s only 25! And she’s already a step-mom. I’ll give her a break.

Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair & WENN.

Yesterday, we previewed Megan Fox’s appearance on the September cover of Amica Magazine, an Italian publication. In that post, I noted that in recent photos of Megan, she looks like she’s put on some weight. Nothing drastic or anything, she just doesn’t look so slim and bony, like she did before. If anything, I think Megan looks wonderful with an extra ten to fifteen pounds – it fills out her face a bit, and makes the tweaking look softer. These are new photos of Megan from the set of This Is Forty yesterday – you can see her weight gain even more in these pics, I think.

Previously, Megan’s trainer has claimed that Megan has never had an eating disorder, and that she just has crazy metabolism and she struggles to put on weight. Of course, Megan has a history of saying quite the opposite – in past interviews, she’s claimed that when she needs to put on weight, she just binges on sweets, and when asked if she had an eating disorder, she gave a non-committal non-confirmation.

Of course, in the Amica interview, Megan once again claimed something different – she said, “For a year and a half, until about four months ago, I followed a strict vegan diet based on raw fruits and vegetables, no bread, sugar and coffee. But I had lost too much weight. So now I eat a bit of everything. I train three times a week doing circuit training with my trainer Harvey Pasternak.” She also disrespects Marilyn Monroe and says that MM was bipolar and a “negative energy” that Megan didn’t want in her life, and that’s why Megan was getting rid of that gaudy MM tattoo.

Anyway, I still say the extra weight looks good on Megan. Her body reminds me of Kristen Stewart’s – you can tell that both of them are going to have weight struggles in their 30s, when their “skinny” metabolism goes to hell.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.