She was then fired from the cast of Transformers 3, and basically disappeared from the public eye, only appearing in a few movies throughout the 2010s.

After that, the sexist press around Fox intensified: “Michael Bay’s Crew Bitchslaps Megan Fox ,” wrote Deadline’s Nikki Finke, who republished a horrific, violent letter written by three anonymous male members of Bay’s crew that defended the director and called Fox a string of cruel names - including “an unfriendly bitch” and “trailer trash.” The same year, while doing press for Jennifer’s Body, Fox told Wonderland that Transformers director Michael Bay was “a nightmare to work with,” comparing him to Hitler. So when Jennifer’s Body came out, there was a ready-made narrative waiting for it: The script was trying too hard it was too sexualized, or maybe not sexy enough it was a trashy, empty B-movie with delusions of grandeur.” “It was viewed as a sex romp for straight teen boys, and as such, it was a failure … right at the height of simultaneous cultural backlash to Diablo Cody, who wrote the smart, sad, hyperstylized screenplay, and Megan Fox, who stars as the titular Jennifer … In 2009, Cody was considered a gimmicky one-hit wonder who was way too precious with her made-up slang, and Fox was considered a vapid Maxim cover girl best qualified to wash a car in a bikini in the Transformers movies.

As Constance Grady wrote in her reevaluation of the film for Vox: The film has since become a feminist cult classic, but flopped in theaters, mostly due to its sexist marketing, and the ensuing sexist backlash, which misinterpreted it as a smutty horror film for men. In 2009, when she was 22, she starred in Diablo Cody’s comedy-horror Jennifer’s Body. The performance kicked off nearly two years of relentless media coverage of Fox as a sex symbol. Megan Fox rose to prominence after her leading role in 2007’s Transformers film opposite Shia LaBeouf. Where has Megan Fox been for the past ten years? Here’s what to know about what happened, and how Fox has responded. The clip has revived conversations about how the actress was treated by Hollywood and the media as a teenager. In response, Kimmel laughs and makes a sexual joke. In the interview, Fox explains to Kimmel how she’d been sexualized in Hollywood as a teen. Now, Fox is back in the news again after a clip of an interview she did in 2009 with Jimmy Kimmel recently resurfaced. At first, it was because she split with her husband of ten years. Then, she was spotted - and starred in a very sexy music video - with actor and musician Machine Gun Kelly, sparking speculation that they are dating. After nearly a decade of relative quiet, Megan Fox has reentered the news cycle.

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