5 things you didn’t know about 38-year-old Megan Fox

3. Teenage misadventure at Walmart

Megan Fox’s teenage years included a memorable incident at Walmart. At the age of 14 or 15, Fox was caught trying to steal Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen cosmetics from the store.

The misstep led to a court appearance where she was given two options for her punishment. Fox chose to wrap Christmas gifts rather than endure the harsher penalty of wearing a sign declaring her theft outside the store for three days. She recounted the experience in an interview with Daily Express, stating:

“I don’t know if the ban was for life, but when I was 14 or 15 I did get caught and convicted of stealing Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen cosmetics from a Wal-Mart. They actually took me into the court and I had two choices and I took the second choice, which was wrapping gifts for Christmas, which was awesome, it wasn’t really a punishment.”

4. Battles with body image and mental health

Megan Fox has been open about her struggles with mental health, particularly regarding her fears of potentially mirroring the troubled life of Marilyn Monroe. In an interview with Wonderland Magazine, she expressed concerns about her mental stability:

“I constantly struggle with the idea that I think I’m a borderline personality. Or that I have bouts of mild schizophrenia. I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven’t pinpointed what it is. I feel like I could easily go in that direction and I need to know everything there is to know about it because I feel like it’ll keep it from happening to me.”

Additionally, she discussed her issues of self-image with Cosmopolitan, where she described herself as “completely, hysterically insecure.”