I Have a Mental Problem: Megan Fox

Hollywood's crazy sex bomb is ready to make her next move

(NEWSER) - Megan Fox isn’t really an out-of-control, stripper-seducing wild child—she just plays one in interviews. Hollywood’s current favorite sex symbol tells Lynn Hirschberg of the New York Times that she’s manufactured her own image, creating a character to play in the press because “I’m not willing to give my true self up.” Who is that true self? It's not the next Angelina—comparisons to Jolie are "the bane of my existence," she says—or Julia Roberts. "I’m 23. I don’t belong in a romantic comedy yet. Those movies are very safe." More»

No. 1 spot goes to Bar Refaeli

(NEWSER) - Bar Refaeli is No. 1 on this year's Maxim Hot 100 , but No. 92 is arguably more interesting: It's Foxy Knoxy herself, Amanda Knox. She's probably the most controversial entry, but the list also contains a cartoon character (Family Guy's Lois Griffin) and a man (Stephen Colbert, whose fans apparently staged a write-in campaign). Side note: Kim Kardashian didn't make it on Maxim's list, but she was voted "Hottest Woman in the World" by Zoo magazine ... which, sadly, is not actually a magazine about zoo animals. See that cover here . Maxim's top 10: More»

Monroe was jealous of Elizabeth Taylor: memoir

(NEWSER) - A new memoir reveals that it was simple jealousy of Elizabeth Taylor that spurred Marilyn Monroe to pose nude. Monroe agreed to be naked while exiting a swimming pool during a photo shoot, as long as Taylor did not appear in any magazines running the images, reports Vanity Fair, which is publishing the images in this month's edition. (While Monroe made just $100,000 for her final film role in Something's Gotta Give, Taylor pulled down $1 million in Cleopatra.) But the nude pictures weren't the only place Monroe bared all. A smattering of her conversations with photographer Lawrence Schiller, as per his memoir Marilyn & Me:

• On posing naked: "Larry, if I do come out of the pool with nothing on, I want your guarantee that when your pictures appear on the covers of magazines Elizabeth Taylor is not anywhere in the same issue."

Possibly-pregnant star dishes to French magazine

(NEWSER) - Sometimes celebrities are just like us ; other times, they most decidedly are not . This is definitely an example of the latter: Megan Fox, who has quite possibly never had a moment of insecurity in her entire life, recently told French magazine Jalouse that she's completely aware of her own good looks, the New York Daily News reports. "I live well with my image. I cannot complain," she said. "I would not trade my place with an unattractive girl." Of course, she also insisted she's not vain. (But she might be pregnant… ) More»

Expecting first baby with Brian Austin Green

(NEWSER) - Megan Fox will be a mom soon, if anonymous sources and Star magazine are to be believed. The 25-year-old is expecting her first child with hubby Brian Austin Green, who already has a 10-year-old son, sources tell the tabloid in a story picked up by Radar . The pregnancy was unexpected, but the couple is "incredibly excited," a source says. The mom-to-be "has really grown in the past couple of years. Megan used to only be concerned with her career, but now family comes first." More»