Megan Fox Says She’s ‘Never, Ever’ Loved Her Body Amid Dysmorphia Struggles: I’m On a ‘Never-Ending’ Journey of Self-Acceptance

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Behind-the-scenes battle. Megan Fox revealed she’s struggled with body dysmorphia from a very young age.“I don’t ever see myself the way other people see me,” the Transformers star, 37, said in a cover story interview for Sports Illustrated’s 2023 swimsuit edition — as she is one of this year’s four cover stars alongside Martha Stewart, Kim Petras and Brooks Nader. “There is never a point in my life where I loved my body, never, ever.”Fox went on to add that she had an “awareness” of her body ever since she was a little girl, causing her to obsess 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 stated in a video shared via the publication’s YouTube page on Monday, May 15. “The journey of, like, loving myself is gonna be never-ending, I think.”The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles star previously spoke out about her body dysmorphia struggles. “I have a lot of deep insecurities,” she told British GQ Style in an October 2021 joint interview with then-boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly.She continued: “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’s career skyrocketed with the 2009 horor-comedy Jennifer’s Body, in which she plays a high school teen who goes on a killing spree after being possessed by a demon.

Years later, the actress — who shares sons Noah, 10, Bodhi, 9, and Journey, 6, with her ex-husband, Brian Austin Green — revealed that the newfound