The second coming of Megan Fox

INTERVIEW - Nudity, a sexual re-awakening and some unusual opinions, Joe Bromley meets a fast fashion bombshell

WHAT terrible messaging for women to give each other. Once you go through certain milestones, once you go through having children, then what? You shouldn't be sexy any more?" My conversation with Megan Fox has strayed onto the subject of feminism and personal freedom. Fans are obsessed with her PDA-heavy love affair with American rapper Machine Gun Kelly (real name Colson Baker), but Fox has received her share of censure for it too - largely because now, aged 36, she is a mother of three (with her ex-husband, the 90210 star Brian Austin Green). "You should be and feel more sexy than ever after you've given birth to a child," she says. "That is a very misogynistic, patriarchal idea that has been put on women that we need to shed."

We are speaking three days after Politico leaked a Supreme Court document proposing to overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling in the US (a move which would be catastrophic for a woman's right to abortion) though of this facet of the patriarchy she seems a little nonplussed: "I'm the worst person to ask about this stuff because I don't ever go on the Internet," she says. "When I was opening my phone to make this call, I was accidentally on the screen where it shows news headlines. I don't actually know what's going on. But obviously I don't support overturning anything to do with women's rights." Does she avoid the news entirely? "Yeah. My life is so much better just not really knowing what's going on. I feel like if something is really a big enough deal, it will permeate into my world," she says. "It causes so much stress and anxiety. And being over-stimulated I think is a modern-day disease. So I avoid that."