Megan Fox defends son’s decision to wear dresses: ‘I’m trying to teach him to be confident’
'Boys don't wear dresses,' Fox's son is told by classmates
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Your support makes all the difference.Megan Fox has spoken about how her son Noah is mocked by his classmates for wearing dresses to school.
On Thursday, the actor appeared on American talk show The Talk, where she spoke about her six-year-old son’s affinity for fashion.
Fox explained that her eldest son – who she said frequently helps her pick out outfits – enjoys dressing himself, often opting for dresses.
“He’s really into fashion. He’s the one, like sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes,” the New Girl star said.
“And I send him to a really liberal, like hippy school. But even there, here in California, he still has little boys going like, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,’ or ‘Boys don’t wear pink’.”
Fox said she is trying to teach her son “to be confident no matter what anyone else says”.
However, at one point, the relentless ridicule the eldest-child-of-three was receiving from his peers led him to stop wearing dresses.
“He had stopped wearing dresses for a while,” Fox said.
“He just wore one two days ago to school, and he came home and I was like, ‘How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?’”
According to Fox, her son responded: “Well all the boys laughed when I came in. I don’t care, I love dresses too much.”
To mark the 10th anniversary of horror comedy Jennifer’s Body, the actor recently took part in a one-on-one discussion with the film’s writer and executive producer, Diablo Cody, on Entertainment Tonight.
During their conversation, Fox explained that at the time of the film’s release, she was being sexualised by “every producer” she worked with.
“Objectified is like, it’s not the right word, it doesn’t capture what was happening to me at the time,” she said.
“It preceded a breaking point for me, where I had, I think, a genuine psychological breakdown.”
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