Megan Fox reveals body dysmorphia struggles

Megan Fox made her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model debut this week. Despite being one of the four women picked to be featured on the magazine cover, Megan Fox reveals her body dysmorphia struggles.

In the accompanying interview for the magazine, the actress opened up about her lifelong struggles with body image and how she views herself. Fox claims she doesn’t see herself the way others see her.

“I don’t ever see myself really the way other people see me,” she confessed. “There is never a point in my life where I loved my body. Never, ever.”

Body awareness

She recalls that she struggled with this since childhood. “When I was little that was an obsession I had of like, ‘But I should look this way.’ And why I had an awareness of my body that young I’m not sure.”

Fox understands that it’s not unusual to have these struggles because she “grew up in a very religious environment where bodies weren’t even like acknowledged.”

“The journey of loving myself is going to be never-ending, I think,” Fox concluded. The ‘Jennifer’s Body’ actress first opened up about her battle with body dysmorphia in an interview with British GQ in October 2021.

“We may look at somebody and think, ‘That person’s so beautiful. Their life must be so easy,” she told the outlet then. “They most likely don’t feel that way about themselves.”

Addressing the thumb concerns

Fox also acknowledged that throughout her career, the media has been very forced on her physical appearance, particularly her flaws. One particular physical characteristic that is often a talking point about the actress is her thumbs.

“I never thought that was a weird thing or an embarrassing thing,” Fox said of her thumbs, which became an obsession for online trolls. “They’re just kind of short. Is it really that crazy?”

Fox joked that they’re actually referred to as “murderer’s thumbs,” because apparently the distance between the tip and first joint of the thumb is supposed to be indicative of one’s temper. That would suggest Fox has a short one, but she says that’s far from the case.

“It takes a lot to get me to lose my temper, I mean a lot. I have crazy patience,” she said. “But when you do push me over the edge, you’re on demon time and you better run for your life and it’s scary as f---!”