Reddit Is Torn On Megan Fox's New Face: Is She Unrecognizable Now? It's Actually No One's Business

Well, folks, Reddit is back at doing what it does best: sharing hot takes. Recently, users banded together to criticize one of the most inappropriate Halloween celebrity moments ever, but the current topic of fascination has shifted to Megan Fox. The actor and model showed up to a screening of "Jennifer's Body" on October 26, 2025, in a bombshell outfit, and the changes in her appearance have some commenters obsessed with her "new face." Now, you've read the title, so you probably have a decent idea of my stance on the issue, but it isn't that simple.

We all have strong thoughts on celebrities and social media, but one thing we can all agree on is that celebrities, like Fox, often love to be talked about. It's how they generate interest, become more popular, and earn more money. It's the basis behind the "no press is bad press" sentiment, yet you don't have to be a fan of a celebrity to have a level of empathy for them. Self-obsessed as some of them are, they're humans, and having the ability to care about what other people feel is one of the few remaining good things about humanity.

So, as I read comments like "[The procedure] ruined the equal thirds of her face" or "this felt like a completely new face to me," and even well-meaning ones like "[Megan's] face looks a bit more like her old face, but I can't put my finger on why or how," I try to imagine a world where my looks are the subject of public gossip. I imagine a world where every single aesthetic change I make sparks a public discussion, and I feel a familiar sense of dread.

I, like millions of people around the world, have dealt with body-image issues. Is my this too that, is my that too this, and why can I never take a decent photo? It's my firmly rooted belief that I, unlike Megan Fox, am horribly un-photogenic and never look like myself in photos. On those rare, once-in-two-years moments where I manage to take a good photo, I immediately make it my profile picture, but make sure not to look at it too much so that it doesn't morph into a hideous monster before my eyes.

If this is something you're even remotely familiar with, the fact that the "Subservience" actor experiences body dysmorphia might give you the same feelings it does me. Speaking to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit in 2023, she put it this way: "I don't ever see myself the way other people see me. There is never a point in my life [when] I loved my body. Never ever." No one can say whether Megan Fox's plastic surgery procedures have been because of these feelings, but I hope she didn't change herself to appease others' eyes.

Body dysmorphia goes beyond feeling uncomfortable in your own skin. It can make one obsess over a flaw that they're convinced they have. In Fox's case, it's a large forehead. However, as I feel a sense of sadness for the "Transformers" actor, part of me feels frustrated because I wonder whether I would still post revealing pictures if I hated being talked about. Between the bikini snaps and the drop-dead-gorgeous outfits, the internet is powerless to the allure of the comment section. Surely, Fox has this figured out by now.

After wrestling with my thoughts and trying to be as honest as I can, I realized that my initial thoughts were unfair because they shifted the burden from the people doing the judging to the person being judged. It's even more unfair because it's expecting global superstar Megan Fox to have the same reactions to a problem that I did. When I got tired of worrying about my body, I shrank away. I avoided pictures, and even on my wedding and birthdays, I felt a sense of overwhelming dread at being faced with a camera lens.

However, Fox doesn't shrink; she reclaims the spotlight. She puts herself out there in photoshoots that clearly challenge her. Rather than hiding from her mental struggles or yielding defeat, she refuses to be controlled by them. Maybe her response and mine are survival tactics, just in different directions. Still, I can't help but admit that I love the actor's strategy a lot more than my hideaway one. Why should she care so much about other people's opinions that she doesn't get certain body procedures? And why should I let a camera lens fill me with so much dread that I barely have five pictures from my adulthood?

More importantly, though, have I been hypocritical and commented on other people's body changes in the past? Our experiences as humans, as well as over 100 years of plastic surgery, should have taught us that people use aesthetic procedures to fix perceived flaws. And if a surgical procedure, however invasive, makes Fox, or anyone for that matter, love themselves more, why is that such a bad thing?