As Kaiser reported last week, Megan Fox and Michael Bay have put aside their differences and will work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot movie together. Naturally, this will be the same sort of mindless fare that the Transformers franchises continues to be to this very day, but Megan is apparently a big TMNT fan. Of course, the immediate question about this story is why Michael would take Megan back after she publicly declare that, as a director, he is “like Hitler” and “like Napoleon“. Certainly, TMNT would be just fine without Megan because it’s going to be a terrible movie (that will still make tons of money) no matter what. Well, there’s a new story coming from Radar that says Megan basically grovelled for this role and presented Michael with a “heartfelt apology” because she wanted this job so badly. You know his ego loved it:

Megan Fox won herself a role in the new Michael Bay movie by extending an olive branch to the fiery director because she feared her days as a leading lady were numbered, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The 26-year-old Transformers beauty, who once likened Bay to Hitler in a magazine interview, will team up with the filmmaker for a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

But that’s only after Megan, 26, swallowed her pride, picked up the phone and apologized for her criticism of him!

“It was Megan that made the first move to talk with Michael,” a source tells Radar.

“Since Transformers, she hasn’t been getting the leading lady roles she had hoped for and Megan was starting to get concerned that it was because of what she said about Michael.

“So, she swallowed her pride, picked up the phone and spoke with him to clear the air and apologize. She told him how thankful she was to have been casted by him in the first place, and that she was totally out of line to say what she said.

“In the end she realized that Michael may be a hard taskmaster, but he does it purely to get the best out of his actors on set.

“Michael said he had a role she would be perfect for and was willing to forgive and forget the incident because he’s a big fan of hers,” the source says.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Bay announced on his website that the stunner will join him for the remake of the popular 90s franchise.

[From Radar Online]

Well, I will say something nice here — Megan finally recognized that she acted like an unprofessional brat by badmouthing her boss to the press, and she basically did so in the first place because she thought her career would soar once she left Transformers. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but Megan was a brat, and she’s made amends. This doesn’t excuse the fact that Michael is an epic douchebag either, but I guess these two can wallow in their mutual douchiness together — although I can’t stand the idea of a woman having to beg Michael Bay for anything. Do you think he made her wash his Ferrari again?

Here are some photos of Megan with Brian Austin Green earlier this month at Carnaval in Rio de Janerio.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

Has Megan Fox successfully rebranded herself as a comedienne, character actress and ensemble player? Her career definitely faltered for a few years after she was shoved off the Transformers franchise after she referred to Michael Bay as “like Hitler” and “like Napoleon”. Michael Bay always claimed Steven Spielberg made him fire Megan, but Megan and Michael always had a tortured, melodramatic and sketchy working relationship, perhaps because Michael only gave Megan the part in Transformers because she washed his Ferrari while he filmed her. Anyway, there was no love lost between those two brats, so this news is very interesting… they’re going to work together again!

After pushing production to do more work on the script, Paramount’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” reboot looks back on track as the studio has tapped Megan Fox to star as April O’Neil. Jonathan Liebesman will direct with Michael Bay producing through his Platinum Dunes banner. Michael Bay tweeted the news on his blog.

Original 1984 Mirage Studios’ comicbook “TMNT” centered on four turtles who are turned humanoid through contact with radioactive slime, and trained in martial arts by their humanoid rat master. Bay stirred controversy with fans of the comicbook-based franchise when he said the reimagined series would have alien elements.

The reason for the original delay was because the filmmakers and studio felt they wouldn’t be ready for a October 2012 shoot date. Prior to the holidays, the studio began meeting with actresses such as Jane Levy, Anna Kendrick and Elizabeth Olsen and the studio will now aim to find its male lead.

The studio, Bay and Fox have a relationship going back to when the two worked together on the first two “Transformer” films. The ICM Partners repped Fox was last seen in Universal’s “This Is 40.”

[From Variety]

I guess I’m one of the few people of my generation who never really cared or paid attention to TMNT in any way, shape or form. You can read April O’Neil’s Wiki page here (it’s surprisingly exhaustive) and decide for yourself if Megan is a good choice. Considering I don’t see how in the world this film will make any money at all (????), I don’t think it’s a good career choice for Megan. But isn’t Megan really into the TMNT? I think she’s talked about that before. She’s a TMNT fan-girl.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Megan Fox covers the March issue of Marie Claire UK, and these are some images from the photoshoot. I’ve seen some complaints about these pics already, but I kind of like them. I think Megan is one of those women who can’t really “pull off” strong editorials or crazy styling. She’s best when she just sticks to simple editorial visions, like white backgrounds or “posing through a window”. As for the interview… she’s just talking about babies and how she loves being a mom.

Megan Fox wants more kids. While the devoted mother-of-one is grateful for her successful Hollywood film career, she has admitted all she wants to do is spend time with her four-month-old son Noah and hopes to give him siblings as soon as possible.

The ‘This is 40′ actress said: “I’ve never been validated by work or fame or Hollywood or any of that. I recognize the blessings when they come – like, I recognize I’m so lucky to work with Judd [Apatow] – but the ultimate satisfaction for me is being with my son. I just want to give Noah as much of myself as I can. And I want to have more kids. That is where my heart is.”

Megan, 26, confessed having a baby has been a lifelong dream and she is now finding it a struggle to juggle her filming commitments with motherhood because she feels work has become redundant.

She sighed: ”All I wanted to do my whole, whole life was have a baby and, now, I’ve finally done it… It’s very hard for me to do this stuff, because I feel like this isn’t my job any more. My job is to be with him.”

Fox also credited Noah with helping her battle against OCD, explaining: “When they come out they are covered in all kinds of stuff. I took him right on my chest and, from that moment, nothing he does freaks me out. I don’t want to give him a complex.”

The brunette beauty also revealed the secret to her marital bliss with ‘Beverly Hills, 90210′ hunk Brian Austin Green – who she wed in June 2010 – claiming it takes hard work and a good dose of tolerance because the pair are polar opposites of each other.
Megan told Marie Claire magazine: ”I just think we got lucky. I believe he’s my soulmate. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t take work, because we are very, very different. ‘But we are tolerant of each other and we try to be patient with each other, and I don’t try to turn him into me and he knows not to try to turn me into him. He really is amazing. I should never, ever even think about complaining.”

[From Contact Music & Digital Spy]

Is it weird that I actually believe her when she says “I’ve never been validated by work or fame or Hollywood or any of that”? I think she’s telling the truth. Unlike most of the famewhores of Hollywood, Megan doesn’t seem to NEED it so much. Like, Hollywood has been a means to an end for her, and she doesn’t need the constant attention and validation that so many actors need. As for Megan having more babies – sure. I could see that. I’m sure she’ll have another kid.

Photos courtesy of Marie Claire UK.

Two days ago, I covered Megan Fox’s February Esquire cover story. I actually didn’t hate Megan in the interview – I mean, she said a ton of somewhat crazy things, but she didn’t seem as spitefully stupid as she has in past interviews. I said that Megan actually seemed to be growing up and maturing a bit, and I stand by that. At one point, Megan is talking about her old (fug) Marilyn Monroe tattoo (on her forearm) and how she’s getting it removed because she now sees Marilyn as a powerless victim rather than a sex symbol betrayed by her tragic sensuality. Or something. Here’s the relevant part:

She holds out her right arm to show me her tattoo of Marilyn Monroe. All that remains of Marilyn is a few drops of black against skin that is the color the moon possesses in the thin air of northern winters. She decided to get it removed, and after a single treatment the sex symbol of another age is barely recognizable. “I feel like I willed it be gone,” Fox says. “They told me it was going to take six sessions and it’s nearly gone in one.”

Other tattoos may be going soon as well. A quote on her rib cage reads: “There once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart.” She thinks it’s stupid now. And she isn’t entirely sure about the line from Nietzsche either: “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

But Marilyn will go first.

The reason is that Marilyn Monroe lost control. “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.”

But she was a great actress, a great icon, a figure of power.

“She wasn’t powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay. 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, curled defensively on the sofa. “I’m not interested in following in those footsteps.”

[From Esquire]

Part of the reason I said Megan seemed to be maturing was because of this section of the interview – Megan has assessed Marilyn Monroe’s true standing in Hollywood, the real history apart from the mythology and death-cult that surrounds Marilyn’s memory, and Megan decided she wanted no part of it. Her comparison of Marilyn to Lindsay is particularly devastating, because that’s the one way in which Lindsay does not want to be compared to Marilyn. Unfortunately for all of us,. Megan took to Facebook to clarify her remarks on The Cracken:

In the newly released article that I did for Esquire, there is a reference that is made to Lindsay Lohan that I would like to clarify before it snowballs into something silly.

The journalist and I were discussing why I was removing my Marilyn Monroe tattoo, especially since in his opinion, Marilyn was such a powerful and iconic figure for women.

I attempted to draw parallels between Lindsay and Marilyn in order to illustrate my point that while Marilyn may be an icon now, sadly she was not respected and taken seriously while she was still living.

Both women were gifted actresses, whose natural talent was lost amongst the chaos and incessant media scrutiny surrounding their lifestyles and their difficulties adhering to studio schedules etc.

I intended for this to be a factual comparison of two women with similar experiences in Hollywood. Unfortunately it turned into me offering up what is really much more of an uneducated opinion.

It was most definitely not my intention to criticize or degrade Lindsay.

I would never want her to feel bullied, as she does not deserve that.

I was not always speaking eloquently during this interview and this miscommunication is my fault.

[From Megan’s Facebook]

Oh, whatever. Megan’s initial assessment was dead-on, and dare I say, it was even complimentary towards Lindsay considering that at NO POINT has Lindsay ever had Marilyn’s talent or beauty. Megan’s Facebook clarification was just more “Pity poor Crackie” stuff – although I guess we should give Megan bonus points for attempting to explain herself when she said something controversial? The 2009 version of Megan Fox would never have done that.

Photos courtesy of Esquire.

Megan Fox covers the February issue of Esquire, and I only got through a few paragraphs before I started chuckling. The piece is called “Megan Fox Saves Herself” and it’s all about Megan’s crushing fame and how she wants out of Hollywood and her team has to “force” her into reading scripts and all of that. Now, if this was 2009, I might be more inclined to believe the gist of the story. But it’s 2013, and while Megan is still a commodity, while she still has a fan-base of horny boys and man-boys, she really isn’t a big deal in Hollywood at this point. Producers don’t believe she can carry a film, and directors don’t think she can act. She’s a pretty (plastic) face. She is “The Girl” personified. Always secondary to the action of men. You can read the full Esquire piece here, and here are some highlights:

Megan’s life is totally like the Aztec ritual of human sacrifice: “It’s so similar. It totally is,” she says quietly.

Megan on fame: “I don’t think people understand,” she says. “They all think we should shut the f–k up and stop complaining because you live in a big house or you drive a Bentley. So your life must be so great. What people don’t realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you’re being bullied by millions of people constantly.”

She’s read the Bible: “I’ve read the Book of Revelation a million times,” Megan Fox says. “It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. What is the dragon? What is the prostitute? What are these things? What is this imagery? What was John seeing? And I was just thinking, What is the Antichrist? When war breaks out in the Holy Land, like it is right now, if that is a sign of the immediate end times, then where are the other signs? Is it possible that it’s the Internet or fame itself or celebrity?”

Details about Megan giving birth: For the birth, she had no doula, no midwife. She left the hospital in just over twenty-four hours.

On her bombshell image: “I felt powerless in that image,” she says. “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.”

Removing her Marilyn Monroe tattoo: “I feel like I willed it be gone,” Fox says. “They told me it was going to take six sessions and it’s nearly gone in one. 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. She wasn’t powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay. 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. I’m not interested in following in those footsteps.”

Other tattoos may be going soon as well: A quote on her rib cage reads: “There once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart.” She thinks it’s stupid now. And she isn’t entirely sure about the line from Nietzsche either: “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

Who she admires now: “Ava Gardner. She had power. She was a broad. She got what she wanted and said what she needed.”

She grew up in a Pentecostal church in Tennessee: “The energy is so intense in the room,” she says, “that you feel like anything can happen. They’re going to hate that I compare it to this, but have you ever watched footage of a Santeria gathering or someone doing voodoo? You know how palpable the energy is? Whatever’s going on there, it’s for real. I have seen magical, crazy things happen. I’ve seen people be healed. Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I’d have to shut it off because I don’t know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back. It feels like a lot of energy coming through the top of your head — I’m going to sound like such a lunatic — and then your whole body is filled with this electric current. And you just start speaking, but you’re not thinking because you have no idea what you’re saying. Words are coming out of your mouth, and you can’t control it. The idea is that it’s a language that only God understands. It’s the language that’s spoken in heaven. It’s called ‘getting the Holy Ghost.’ ”

She’s not into pills & stuff: “I can’t stand pills. I don’t like drinking. I don’t like feeling out of control,” she explains. “I have to feel like I’m in control of my body. And I know what you’re thinking, Then why would I want to go to church and speak in tongues? You have to understand, there I feel safe. I was raised to believe that you’re safe in God’s hands. But I don’t feel safe with myself.”

She believes in aliens and leprechauns: “I believe in all of this stuff. I believe in all of it…. I like believing. I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people’s imaginations…. We should all believe in leprechauns. I’m a believer….”

[From Esquire]

There’s a lengthy discussion within the piece – including no quotes from Megan – about how she’s one of the last “bombshells,” how Hollywood needs more women who look like Megan, except Hollywood doesn’t really know what to do with women who look like Megan. It’s an interesting discussion, although I don’t agree with it, especially given that Megan is complaining about feeling “devalued” with that image WHILE POSING LIKE THIS FOR ESQUIRE. But I will say this – even though I rolled my eyes a few times, Megan is growing up and becoming a better a person and better interview. When she was a dumb kid, she talked so much stupid sh-t in interview after interview, and it’s nice to see her move on and become a more professional and genuinely interesting person.

Also: look at her crazy body. These photos were probably taken two months after she gave birth!

Photos courtesy of Esquire.

This is a fashion post for The Golden Globes dedicated to some of the ladies in light-colored mermaid-type dresses that were fitted up top and flared on the bottom. I’m not a fan of the tight on top, poofy skirt silhouette. It can look juvenile, but some women really pulled off the look and others looked a little too cutesy. In the “too cutesy” category we have Amy Adams in Marchesa. The bodice looked very tight and uncomfortable, and the skirt was over-the-top. In the full-length photos she looks like a cake topper. On screen this was slightly prettier, though, and I can see how this dress would be appealing in person. Amy called the color “ballet pink.” Her sideswept curls and deftly-applied makeup gave her look an old Hollywood vibe, but the dress just underwhelmed me.

Hayden Panettiere was more successful in a blush-colored Cavalli. On camera, the lines of sequins on the gown were absolutely beautiful. I love her easy blow-out and her light, colorful makeup. Hayden was dripping in diamonds but they weren’t overdone. This was one of my favorite dresses.

Jessica Alba also looked striking in pink Oscar de la Renta. There’s something very “pageant” about her dress, and I was surprised that I liked it so much. She carried a dippy fuzzy purse, though. It’s a “Roger Vivier ‘Pochette Prisme Poodle’ clutch.” She was trying to mix it up and not be so serious, but it just detracts from how pretty everything else is. She needs to own that look. It’s nice to see her smile for once.

On camera, I thought Megan Fox was quite lovely in pale Dolce & Gabbana. I remember thinking what a pretty dress it was and how great her makeup looked. In these photos it all looks a little cheap to me though. Maybe it’s the fact that she can’t close her mouth to save her life. What is up with that pose? The lace on the dress doesn’t translate well to photos, and her makeup looks clownish compared to the other actresses. That’s Megan Fox for you. At least she’s no longer comparing herself to men and talking about how insecure she is.

Check out Brian Austin Green’s haircut. He looks like a kid!

photo credit: FameFlynet. One photo credit: WENN.com

Social networking is a curious thing. I often find myself amazed at the strangest details that people share, such as the amazing sandwich they’re having for lunch or boring photos of random floral arrangements at restaurants. Celebrities tend to either use the hell out of Twitter and Facebook or avoid the two platforms like a career-ending plague. Like Miley Cyrus and Rihanna both loooove to overshare by way of the not-so-elusive tweet, but other famous types like Jennifer Aniston and Quentin Tarantino wouldn’t be caught dead letting people know what they are doing every moment of every day. A happy medium is someone like Alan Cumming, who uses Twitter to promote his projects but also shows off cute photos of himself wearing funky glasses or wearing a sexy kilt.

As for my own feelings on social networking, I love finding good linkage there, so I feel that Twitter and Facebook are both places that are most useful in pointing people to other places on the internet. When it’s used for other purposes, I enjoy stereotyping the two platforms by saying that Twitter is where people try very hard to convince others that they’re very clever, and Facebook is where people try very hard to convince others that they have very happy lives that are worthy of envy. My personal pet peeve? Annoying PDA from Facebook couples. Honestly, if you’re that happy about your 3rd anniversary with the most amazing husband ever, tell HIM about it. Okay, enough venting.

Megan Fox has also had it with oversharing via social networking. To be fair, she did share news of her son’s birth on Facebook, but she actually did it in a very lowkey way and three weeks after the fact, which made the announcement pretty cool. Now she’s tried her hand at Twitter, but she’s quitting after only one week. Here are the details:

Say it ain’t so!

Megan Fox amassed more than 250,000 Twitter followers since joining the social networking site Jan. 3 — but despite her popularity, the actress is planning to deactivate her account.

The Friends With Kids actress, 26, made the announcement in a Jan. 10 Facebook post addressed to her 33 million subscribers. “Some of you may or may not have noticed by now that my Twitter account has been shut down,” Fox wrote. “I thought that 2013 might be the year that I finally blossomed into a social networking butterfly, but as it turns out, I still hate it.”

Fox added, “Love you guys but I will just never be that girl. Facebook is as much as I can handle. I’m sorry.”

During her short-lived stint on Twitter, Brian Austin Green’s wife promoted her latest movie, This Is 40, showed off her Star Wars memorabilia and cheered on the Los Angeles Lakers. She also tweeted a funny picture from her childhood, featuring herself and her parents dressed up in “Wild West” attire.

[From Us Weekly]

Even though Megan’s account is still technically active, it sounds like she’ll be shutting down camp pretty soon. So Megan’s fans will have to deal with her not sharing the most trivial details of her life on Twitter. I’m sure they’ll be fine since there are plenty of other celebs willing to fill in the TMI gaps. Perhaps Megan could start looking for a substitute New Year’s resolution — such as never to make this “kissy face” pose on the red carpet ever again.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Have we talked about how pretty Megan Fox’s hair is looking these days? She’s always had nice hair, but I do think her hair person should mix it up a little bit more. Before she had her baby, her hair was almost always A) flat-ironed or B) stiffly curled and down or C) pulled back tightly, giving her the appearance of some alien-like Croydon facelift. I’m just saying… Megan has beautiful hair, and she could wear it in a million different ways. Anyway, there’s really not that much to talk about with Megan these days, which is why I just exhausted the “Megan’s hair” topic. Megan is spending her This Is Forty promotional tour talking about her baby and pregnancy and stuff. Is Megan about to start her transformation to some Jennifer Garner/Jessica Alba type “celebrity mom”?

The last time Megan Fox appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in February, the 26-year-old actress was hiding a small baby bump.

“I was about two months pregnant. I was really sick,” the star of This Is 40 said when she returned for the Dec. 18 episode of the NBC talk show. “I was very nauseous. I had really bad morning sickness.”

Fox continued, “It was so bad for me. . . I was convinced that I was, like, maybe birthing a vampire baby like the one in Twilight — you know what happens to Bella, where she’s in cold sweats all the time — and I felt like that was happening because I had no vitamins and nutrients and I was just nauseous.”

“Something not human was happening!” she added.

Luckily, Brian Austin Green’s wife of two-and-a-half years didn’t suffer for long. “The first trimester was really rough and then I got to about 12 weeks and then it was fine,” the actress said. “It was really a perfect pregnancy after that.”

Fox — already stepmom to Green’s son Kassius, 10, from his previous relationship with actress Vanessa Marcil — also opened up about giving birth Sept. 27 at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. (Coincidentally, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth welcomed a son, Tennessee, at the same hospital that same day.)

“I thought I was going to be tough and the nurses would be like, ‘She’s a warrior princess! She doesn’t need an epidural! She’s amazing! We’re such big fans!’” Fox admitted. “As soon as I got out of the car I was already crying for an epidural. I was asking the security guard for an epidural!”

This Is 40 is in theaters Friday, Dec. 21. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on NBC.

[From Us Weekly]

OK, even though moms’ childbirth talk usually makes me super-nauseous, I actually thought that was cute – “I thought I was going to be tough and the nurses would be like, ‘She’s a warrior princess! She doesn’t need an epidural! She’s amazing! We’re such big fans!’” Ha. It always goes differently than you planned. As for the vampire baby stuff… well, obviously. She’s always been #TeamEdward, right? Weren’t there some old rumors about Megan and Robert Pattinson giving each other the side-eye? OMG. Robert Pattinson is Megan Fox’s baby daddy! *Waits for Twihards to cry*

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some photos from last night’s LA premiere of This Is 40, Judd Apatow’s latest offering, and some kind of sequel to knocked up, I guess, only the story is just about Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann’s characters. Megan Fox is in it, I guess because she’s trying to salvage her Hollywood career by becoming a supporting actress in decent films, as opposed to a lead actress in terrible films. Of all of her potential career moves, this is probably the wisest choice, quite honestly. Megan is wearing Roland Mouret. Thoughts? I don’t hate it. I usually like burgundy and wine colors, but this feels too muted to be interesting. The design is cute, and once again, I want to encourage Megan to stay at this weight. Her body looks great. I want to wipe off some of her makeup though. Too drag-queeny.

More photos from the premiere… Paul Rudd looking ageless. Who’s the lady? Is that HIS lady?

Lena Dunham in a too-cute-by-half little red dress. Ugh. I can’t with the bows.

Chris O’Dowd and his new wife. These two are adorable. I need to find a giant, goofy Irishman of my own.

And here’s Leslie Mann, star of the film and wife of the director. Does this dress work for who Leslie is? Eh. It’s an okay dress, but it’s very… vanilla. It’s very “don’t look at me, I’m just the director’s wife.” Like, this is how Kate Capshaw dresses.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Megan Fox was doing the press circuit for This is 40 when the topic of her birth experience with her son, Noah, came up. Megan gave birth on September 27 and she was pretty candid about the fact that it was not the easiest experience for her. Megan told Access Hollywood that after her water broke, in the car on the way to the hospital, she was in so much pain she was “screaming for an epidural.” Megan, you need to wait until you’re at the hospital for that, it’s not like an epi-pen shot you can self-inject. I jest, she’s just telling a self deprecating story, which is a change for her since she’s usually trashing someone else. Here’s more:

Megan Fox gave birth to baby Noah in September, and the “This is 40” actress said it was a lot harder than she expected.

“I was screaming for an epidural when [Brian Austin Green] was driving me to the hospital because my water broke on its own and I was immediately — it was level orange alert pain,” Megan told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson on Monday at the “This Is 40” film junket.

‘”Cause it’s scary,” Megan’s funny “This is 40” co-star Chris O’Dowd chimed in.

“It… can’t be anything because it hurts so bad,” Megan said. “It was so intense. And I thought I was gonna be really tough and make it, I was gonna labor to like 8 cm… but the first contraction that I got was horrific!”

But she did try to look her best, despite the pain.

“I had wet hair so I was trying to blow dry my hair before I went to the hospital because I didn’t want to go to the hospital with wet hair,” she laughed.

Megan said parenthood is tough, but she has found a new level of happiness with her son.

“It’s exhausting, but it’s amazing and you can’t, until you have kids, you can’t imagine how much you could possibly love a human being,” she said. “It’s really intense and really overwhelming and amazing.

“He’s super cute,” she added.

“Yeah, I heard,” Chris chimed in. “Of course, he’s gorgeous… I don’t know…

“I mean, I have an Xbox, I get it,” he added, trying to relate to the joys of having a child.

[From Access Hollywood via Us Weekly]

How hilarious was Chris O’Dowd’s comment that he “gets it” because he has an X-Box? My kid is eight now and Chris may indeed “get” part of the experience of having an eight year-old boy. We love our X-Box.

In terms of Megan’s birth experience, it’s different for every woman, etc, but I had something similar happen in that the experience was way more intense than I was expecting. It didn’t get super difficult for me until I had to push, which is right around when my water broke. I guess the contractions are more intense after your water breaks, is that true? I tried to Google it, and that seems to be the consensus.

For all the crap that Megan Fox spouts, this wasn’t bad. Is motherhood going to make her more tolerable? She’ll have better stories to tell and she won’t be so focused on being shocking to get headlines. People love a good baby story.

photo credit: WENN.com