Megan Fox Reacts to Critic Calling Her Sultry Photos “Embarrassing"

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Megan Fox is more than proud to say that this is 40.

Case in point, the Transformers star—who shares Noah, 13, Bodhi, 12, and Journey, 9, with ex Brian Austin Green and Saga Blade, 15 months, with ex Machine Gun Kelly—proved just that when she shared a few sultry photos of herself posing in black lingerie to Instagram July 17.

But after one social media user commented, “This s--t is so unbelievably embarrassing for a 40 year old mom to be posting. 16 year old tumblr s--t,” Fox entered the chat with a shady remark of her own.

“Which one of my exes,” the This Is 40 star replied, “is this.”

Prior to her most recent post, Fox has been open about her relationship with her body, especially under the lens of being in the spotlight.

"We may look at somebody and think, 'That person's so beautiful. Their life must be so easy,'" she told British GQ in 2021. "They most likely don't feel that way about themselves."

In fact, when it came herself, the Jennifer’s Body actress, 40, noted, “I have body dysmorphia. I have a lot of deep insecurities."

However, taking a step back and focusing on herself for a while helped changed her perspective, especially when it came to how she was mistreated during the early years of her career.

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"That is something that I did a lot of work on," she explained, noting that she didn’t leave the house for a while. "I've done everything you can do to try to make sense of that. Because it's easy when you go through something like that to feel like a victim, obviously. That's your first instinct and response, but that doesn't serve you and that makes life miserable, living life as a victim.”

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Instead, Fox credits her inner transformation with her outlook on the road ahead.

"I did a lot of work to remove that feeling of being a victim and to realize that it was a lesson," she shared. "So, there was purpose in it and I didn't have to suffer any more. It's [made me grow] into a much more interesting human being than I would have been without that. So, it allows you the space to have gratitude for something that previously you felt persecuted by. That's the one thing in my life I did do a lot of work on, I do feel free from."

Fox isn’t the only one who has addressed critics head on. For more celebs who’ve fired back at body shamers, keep reading…

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