Megan Fox found out that she was pregnant just after signing on to the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, and she has recently spoken out about how hard it was to film while pregnant:
“During your first trimester all you want to do is just watch Bravo and lay in bed and you don't want to get up and do stuff.
“I was waking up and working 18-19 hour days to get this done. That's the one thing about filmmaking — you can't call in sick…because when you shut down production for a day, that's a $1 million - $3 million loss. And so you have to just make it work.”
Megan didn’t want to tell her bosses about her pregnancy because she felt she would be discriminated against:
“In Hollywood, you don't want to show weakness as a woman because it is such a misogynist industry. You have to act like you're a superhero in order to be taken seriously or put on an equal playing field as the men. As soon as you like have a woman's body and have women's issues, it’s like, 'Oh, you're a hazard for us,’ basically. So you just have to pretend that you're a lot stronger than you are a lot of the time.”
The star has said she only wants to work on one film a year from now on so that she can spend more time with her family:
“I've never been really career-oriented. It's always something that I do, as a lot of other people do, to pay bills, and that's how you make your money. And it's not like ... I don't feel like my ego is wrapped up into it.”
