Megan Fox Says She Has “Never, Ever” Loved Her Body

“I don’t ever see myself the way other people see me.”

Megan Fox
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Rachel Burchfield
By Rachel Burchfield
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In a cover story interview for Sports Illustrated’s 2023 swimsuit edition, Megan Fox opened up about body image issues, revealing she has “never, ever” loved her body and that she suffers from body dysmorphia, per Us Weekly.

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

Fox said she had an “awareness” of her body ever since she was a little girl, and obsessed over fitting a certain body image: “It definitely wasn’t environmental because I grew up in a very religious environment where bodies weren’t even, like, acknowledged,” she said. “The journey of, like, loving myself is going to be never ending, I think.”

Megan Fox

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This isn’t the first time Fox has been candid about her body image issues. In a joint interview with then-boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly in British GQ Style back in October 2021, she said “I have a lot of deep insecurities. I think I had either put myself in, or allowed other people to put me in, this weird box that didn’t quite fit me, where I hadn’t lived my own life as myself for a really long time—the parts of me that were always eccentric or strange and didn’t belong within my own family unit or within Hollywood.”

Fox is one of four cover stars this year for Sports Illustrated’s iconic swimsuit edition, joining Kim Petras, Brooks Nader, and Martha Stewart. 

Rachel Burchfield
Rachel Burchfield
Senior Celebrity and Royals Editor

Rachel Burchfield is a writer, editor, and podcaster whose primary interests are fashion and beauty, society and culture, and, most especially, the British Royal Family and other royal families around the world. She serves as Marie Claire’s Senior Celebrity and Royals Editor and has also contributed to publications like Allure, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, People, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and W, among others. Before taking on her current role with Marie Claire, Rachel served as its Weekend Editor and later Royals Editor. She is the cohost of Podcast Royal, a show that was named a top five royal podcast by The New York Times. A voracious reader and lover of books, Rachel also hosts I’d Rather Be Reading, which spotlights the best current nonfiction books hitting the market and interviews the authors of them. Rachel frequently appears as a media commentator, and she or her work has appeared on outlets like NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, and more. 

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