Megan Fox started acting as a teenager, appearing in small roles until landing a recurring spot on the sitcom “Hope & Faith.” Thanks to her work in the “Transformers” films, she picked up even more high-profile gigs: Fox became a leading woman for “Jennifer’s Body” and starred as a human-amongst-turtles in the live-action flicks “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and the sequel “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.” As of 2021, Fox has been a working actor for a whopping 20 years. What’s more, she has modeled for some of the biggest brands. For example, as she recalled in Allure, she was the face of an underwear ad for Italian fashion brand Emporio Armani in 2010.

With her face appearing on screen and on ads, Fox has earned nice payouts along the way. As of 2021, Fox was worth an estimated $8 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. And some of that money has gone to luxurious living arrangements. As reported by Architectural Digest, Fox purchased a house in Los Angeles for $900,000 in 2012 and put it back on the market a few years later. Fox and ex-husband Brian Austin Green also sold their spot in Toluca Lake (which was once owned by Bing Crosby) and another in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. In June 2021, the New York Post reported Fox and boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly started renting a place in Sherman Oaks that goes for a cool $30,000 a month. You know, pocket change.

What scares Megan Fox?

Having once likened Michael Bay to both Napoleon and Hitler in the same interview for Wonderland, it’s clear Megan Fox is unafraid to speak her mind. But even with her bold personality, Fox admitted to a few things that scare her. In that same interview, she addressed her anxieties surrounding the sensation of touching a printed newspaper. According to the actor, feeling a normal newspaper gives her chills and she said the experience is “like nails on a chalkboard” for her. She went on to share that anything with a similar texture, like tissue paper, fires up the goosebumps. “It’s something about how dry it is that I can’t touch it. Those are my main fears,” she said.

The list of things that scare her runs the gamut. As noted in a GQ profile of the actor, Fox’s feelings regarding sharks drove her to give up surfing altogether. Another thing that worries Fox? The idea of growing old and unable to fully function. She explained to Wonderland that she hopes to have a sound mind when she’s older drew a comparison to an elderly Elizabeth Taylor and said she hopes to not be a “senile insane borderline personality schizoid.”

How Megan Fox spends her free time

Megan Fox is a busy woman as an actor and model. But that doesn’t stop her from enjoying free time with activities. And one of her most cherished hobbies? Watching reality shows. In a 2009 interview for The New York Times, Fox revealed that two of her favorite TV programs at the time were “Jon & Kate Plus Eight” and “Ghost Hunters.” One program that she loved but couldn’t quite figure out why she loved was “Say Yes to the Dress.” Fox said of the series, “It’s really confusing to me, so I study it.” The premise is brides-to-be searching for the perfect wedding dress, and at least on all the episodes that Fox watched, the brides-to-be “all cry when they find the dress. I don’t understand why they all cry.”

Another interest for Fox is chowing down on food. Though she ate steamed spinach during her interview, she opened up about one of her guilty pleasures: Red Lobster on Saturday nights, namely because of the seafood chain’s popular “Cheddar Bay” cheese biscuits. And let’s not forget dessert. “I have a bad sweet tooth and I eat tons of unbaked things,” Fox said in Wonderland. “Dough. Fudge. Brownie mix. Cake mix,” are a few of her highlights. The actor also admitted to eating these raw batters “to the point where you think you have salmonella.”