During a recent interview with Esquire magazine, actress and new mom Megan Fox stated that she no longer emulated famed Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe. Fox, who appears in the magazine's February cover issue, said that she is even going as far as removing a tattoo she has of the actress removed from her arm.
"I started reading about her and realized that her life was incredibly difficult," the "Transformers" actress said. "It's like when you visualize something for your future. I didn't want to visualize something to negative."
The 26-year-old then compared the infamous 1950s actress to troubled Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan. "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 she was squandered," Fox said. "I'm not interested in following in those footsteps."
The new mom, who welcomed her first son with husband Brian Austen Green in September, told the magazine that she now admires Ava Gardner, who she calls "a broad" who spoke her mind and "had power," CBS News reported.
Fox isn't the only one to compare Lohan to Monroe. After a recent article by the New York Times Magazine on Lohan's work on "The Canyons," journalist Stephen Rodrick said, "You can't argue that Lindsay has the talent or resume of Monroe, but there is that same feeling of talent slipping away, perhaps permanently."
In the past, Lohan has named Monroe as one of her favorite Hollywood icons.
During her interview with Esquire, Fox also spoke on living in the Hollywood limelight. "I don't think people understand," she told Esquire. "They all think we should shut the [expletive] 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."
The February issue of Esquire magazine hits stands on January 22, 2013.
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