Since her late resurface, Megan Fox has become one of the internet’s sweethearts and we are still obsessed with her thumbs. They were already famous when she was in Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many other Michael Bay films. But since then the internet has changed and grown over the body shaming, we are still curious about her hands.
She has already spoken about this when an internet troll pointed it out. And since then she addressed that she has “weird and fat” thumbs. Now, thanks to newer interviews and how she pointed how insecure this makes her feel at the time, we can address this as something more simple and normal, a genetic condition.
So, take a seat while we explain to you why this is something not too serious and why we should talk about this kind of “defect” deeply.
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What is Brachydactyly?
Brachydactyly, also known as “Stub Thumbs” is a genetic condition that can be inherited, this causes your nails to look more like squares and the shortening of the bones. This makes them look, well, like clubs; in her case, this only affects Megan Fox’ thumbs, making them look bigger and stubbier. Even though this condition has many names, we should point out that many of them might sound offensive.
Although her condition only affects her hands, Brachydactyly can affect your fingers, toes, or both. If this affects your toes you can have some trouble balancing yourself naturally. But in most cases, it is something harmless and you shouldn’t worry too much. It’s you think you might have this condition, you can read more about it here.
This condition doesn’t have any consequence, is more of a cosmetic issue because your hands might look weird. In her case, she won’t be the hand model you want, as we could see in her Motorola commercial back in 2010 where she was replaced by a double in the close-up shots of her hands.
How does she feels about her thumbs?
Megan Fox has been pointed as one of the most gorgeous women in the industry and she is regularly addressed among the sexiest actresses. At the beginning of her career, she was a sex symbol. Now, she addresses this and tries to overcome this image. But she’s still open about the confidence she has in her looks on her own terms.
In other words, her thumbs hardly hurt her self-esteem or her career. She makes fun of this condition and she did jokes about this in many interviews, and she even points out how fat and weird they look. She still was the protagonist in many films and was a loved character in the series New Girl.
So what about her commercial and what happened back in 2012?
We already mentioned her 2010 Motorola Super Bowl commercial, but let’s dig a little deeper into that matter. She featured in the commercial in a bathtub, playing with a phone for about 30 seconds and everybody lost their minds over Megan Fox thumbs. Everyone pointed that Motorola used a hand model instead of her real hands.
Using a hand model isn’t something unusual in commercials; many famous people have gone through this because their hands aren’t that perfect or the star can do a reshoot for the final versions. Most of the viewers pointed this because it was weird for them, and for others, she couldn’t have any flaw.
Two years later the tabloids still talked a lot about this so she spoke about her hands in “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. They laughed about her big thumbs and let it be, but many fans wouldn’t. This isn’t a defect or a real problem for her career, she still stared in many movies, like “Jennifer’s Body” a modern classic.
Should we stop talking about her thumbs?
Well… You can talk about Megan Fox thumbs in two ways. You can bully her like a troll or you can just be curious about a minor genetic condition. Megan Fox was targeted as a sex symbol and this was something that scarred her career even though she is an amazing actress, very intelligent, and an unproblematic actress, so you might want to avoid being a bully.
This condition changes the shape of her thumbs but is a purely cosmetic problem. There is no real consequence other than this might affect some specific hobbies, like painting or maybe playing some instruments, but you can mostly adapt and still do any of those things.
If she’s not ashamed, you shouldn’t be either if you have this condition; and if you go around body shaming people, well, you shouldn’t. We can still talk about famous people and point some characteristics out, but not in a harmful way, you can rather learn some fun facts about the people you see on screen.
