!["I felt powerless in that image [as a sex symbol]. That devalued me."](http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/7f/ff/1358284712_6061_Untitled.jpg?itok=SJtCDrMS ""I felt powerless in that image [as a sex symbol]. That devalued me."")
Megan Fox, who has regained her skinny pre-pregnancy body in record time, says she hates being a sex symbol because it's dehumanizing and reduces her to nothing more than a sex object.
"I felt powerless in that [sex-symbol] image," Fox told the February 2013 issue of Esquire. "I didn't feel powerful. It ate every other part of my personality, not for me, but for how people saw me, because there was nothing else to see or know.
"That devalued me. Because I wasn't anything. I was an image. I was a picture. I was a pose."
Ironically, Megan's heartfelt revelations were accompanied by a sizzling photo spread where the brunette stunner flaunts her amazing physique. While Fox understands that her sultry good looks have given her fame and fortune, she insists people don't realize the burden of beauty and fame.
"I don't think people understand," says Megan, who became an international sex icon after starring in "Transformers" in 2007. "They all think we should shut the f*ck up and stop complaining because you live in a big house or you drive a Bentley. So your life must be so great.
"What people don't realize is that fame [is like] whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those 10 kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly."
Fox got a taste of that bullying after being slammed by fans for making an off-handed comment in French magazine Jalouse that while she hated being a sex symbol, it's better than being unattractive.
"I live well with my image. I can't complain," Megan said in March 2012. "I would not trade places with an unattractive girl." After being criticized as callous and conceited, Fox clarified in a Facebook post that her comments had been taken out of context.
"I gave this interview in English obviously, it was then translated to French and now back into English," she explained. "I've never made vapid self serving comments and in contradiction am uncontrollably self deprecating."
