Megan Fox is a sexy American actress best known for her featured role in the Transformers film series. She is also a mother to two boys and one step-child and married to Brian Austin Green. Here are 50 interesting facts about this gorgeous and talented actress.

Megan Fox was born in Tennessee on May 16, 1986.

Her middle name is Denise.

She is of Irish, French and Native American ancestry.

Fox was raised as a Roman Catholic, and spent her childhood attending Catholic school.

Growing up, her favorite cartoon was "'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".

Megan got inspired to become an actress after seeing the classic movie the Wizard of Oz. She was just three years old, but she became fascinated by Dorothy.

She entered the entertainment world early - she began doing dance and drama at the tender age of 5.

At school, she was part of the school swim team. Her mom says Megan beat the record for the 8-and-under individual medley while swimming in 1994.

Megan also studied ballet, tap, acting, and performance jump rope. According to the International Rope Skipping Federation, jump rope is a fast-spreading, organized, team and individual sport that features the likes of "Double-Dutch Freestyle," "Criss-Cross," "Triple-Unders," and more.

She had a strict upbringing and was not allowed to date while she lived at home with her parents. Megan only began dating after moving out from her parents' house. However, that didn't stop her. She would sneak out and take her mother's car to meet up with boys.

By the age of 13, Megan won several modeling and talent awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention.

Growing up, her favorite movie was "Scream" which was a hit-horror movie franchise in the 90s and 2000s.

Despite her beautiful looks, she says she was bullied at school and she said she hated school. It got so bad that she would eat alone in the bathroom to avoid being "pelted with ketchup packets".

She describes herself as being "abrasive, a longer and obnoxious" during the ages of 10-16.

She was reportedly banned from the Wal-Mart store in her hometown because she shoplifted makeup as a teenager. Fox claims that it was an accident, but she was forced to do community service as punishment.

Fox is reportedly a great surfer. She grew up surfing, and once had a run-in with a Great White shark!

Shortly after moving to L.A. to pursue acting, Megan had a relationship with a female stripper. "Well, that year my boyfriend broke up with me...and I went out of my way to create a relationship with this girl, a stripper named Nikita," Fox revealed to GQ.

Megan landed her first film role at the age of 16. She played spoilt-brat Brianna Wallace in the 2001 teen flick 'Holiday in the Sun'.

Three years later, she made her first major movie debut alongside Lindsay Lohan in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen'.

Megan had a cameo role in the 2003 blockbuster 'Bad Boys II' as a dancer in a night club.

She became a household TV name after appearing as a regular on "Hope and Faith" as Sydney Shanowski in 2004. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled two years later.

Fox and former Beverly Hills, 90210 heartthrob Brian Austin Green, who is 13 years her senior, meet on the set of Hope & Faith. They later got married in 2010.

In 2007, Megan became an overnight household name when she was cast to play the lead female role in 'Transformers'.

While shooting Transformers Megan lost two of her big toenails because her shoes hurt her feet.

When she appeared on set for the second 'Transformers' movie, director Michael Bay asked her to put on five kilograms because she was a little bit too skinny.

By 2009, Megan was so famous that a few online men's website decided to boycott her on their sites. August 4th that year was known as 'A Day with No Megan Fox', and several websites - including the super popular AskMen.com - have promised not to mention or feature her.

Megan has once said that she started acting as a way to avoid college and to make money!

In November 2008, Megan joined fellow Hollywood stars Scarlett Johansson, Jared Leto and Christina Ricci in featuring in a line of celebrity trading cards. The sale proceeds of the trading cards goes to charities selected by the stars.

One of her strange phobias is hearing people breathe.

Not only that, she's also revealed that she suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and said that she can't use public cutlery or enter a restroom without feeling uncomfortable.

In one of her interviews, Megan said that she has deep fear of darkness, caused by a childhood trauma. She is also afraid of flying which she has to often face given her busy schedule.

She loves shopping and one of her favorite things to buy is shoes!

If she could have any superpower, she would love to be invisible! "Invisibility...It's how you gain the most advantage, at least in practical situations. I would also need super strength, but that's a given," she said in an interview.

She is a regularly attends an L.A. church that she says is "not judgmental, does not close its doors to anybody, and has a young, active, passionate congregation, which is how I like to experience church."

Her all-time favorite tv show is History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" that investigates theories of past human-extraterrestrial contact.

Megan is into comics and her favorite one is "Gen 13", a series about a team of five super powerful teenagers and their mentor. She also enjoys "Witchblade" which is about a female NYPD homicide detective who gains powers via the possession of a supernatural artifact.

Megan's nerdy nature doesn't end with comics, she also likes to play video games online with her husband, Brian Austin Greene. Some of her favorite games to play are Halo and Guitar Hero.

Megan Fox is also huge fan of Star Wars. She owns a bunch of memorabilia, including a life-size replica of R2-D2 that lights up and makes sounds!

Nirvana is one of her favorite bands of all times.

Megan had a prominent tattoo of Marilyn Monroe on her forearm which she had removed. "I'm removing it," she told Italian Magazine Amica, on whose September issue cover she features (via Celebrity-Gossip). "It is a negative character, as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life."

She has a tribal waves tattoo on her left wrist which she is also getting removed. The tattoo was botched by the tattoo artist at the time who was high on weed and "he didn't do it correctly," Fox says.

In total, she has had up to nine tattoos done including a line from William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' on her right shoulder and a poem written by herself on her ribs which reads "There once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her heart."

She has owned dogs, cats, and birds before and also has a pet pig.

Her favorite book is 'Kiss the Girls' by James Patterson.

She was voted #1 sexiest woman by FHM readers for 2008.

Without her heels, Megan is 5 feet 6 inches tall.

Megan loves eating PEZ candy. She collects PEZ dispensers and owns about 30 unique ones.

Through her marriage with Brian Austin Green, Fox is also a stepmother to Green's son Kassius (born March 2002), from his past relationship with actress Vanessa Marcil Giovinazzo. They have two sons together, Noah Shannon Green and Bodhi Ransom Green.

She appeared with 'Lost' actor Dominic Monaghan in the music video for Eminem and Rihanna's single "Love the Way You Lie".