5/7/2009

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The "Transformers" actress admits she doesn't know how to handle the media attention.

Sharon Ng

Thanks to her breakout role in "Transformers," Megan Fox has become an international sex symbol. She was even named FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World for 2008. However, the 22-year-old actress admits that she doesn't know how to deal with the attention.  
  
"If you know how to take control of \[being a sex symbol\], then it can be powerful," Fox tells Esquire in its June issue. "But I have no idea how to handle it yet, how to deal with it."  
  
Even so, the starlet, who reprises her role in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," knows exactly what she is not going to do.  
  
"I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson  who I have nothing against," she says, "but I don't want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I've ever learned to prove, like, 'Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.' I don't want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard  but I do. And part of it is my own fault. I'm just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It's just there. It's something I don't have to turn on."  
  
As open as she is about her sexuality, Fox refuses to open up about her relationship with ex-fiance, ex-"Beverly Hills, 90210" star Brian Austin Green. All she'll say is that she's "at a really vulnerable point in my life," referring to the couple's announcement in February that they were calling off their engagement.  
  
"I don't know how I feel or think about anything right now, and I feel like I'm under a microscope," she says of the scrutiny on her relationship. "Normally I love playing the game, but that's when I'm in an assertive place. I'm not there right now."