After starring in the first two Transformers films, she wanted a change.
Fox, 28, took supporting roles in comedies like Friends With Kids and This Is 40, and last year, she starred in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. "I don't sit back and have a game plan and make decisions about my career like other actors do. I have no ego tied up into my career at all. If I get pitched into a movie I do it and that's that; it doesn't matter if it's weird or small or huge," she admits. "I trust my intuition."
More important than being an actress, of course, is being a good mom to sons Noah, 2, and Bodhi, 13 months, with husband Brian Austin Green; Fox is also stepmother to Green's 13-year-old son, Kassius.
"I don't think I need to teach my children with harsh words or with punishment. I believe that if I love them the right way, there's no need for that," she says of her parenting philosophy. "I'm a free-spirit mother." She regrets not being "a better influence" on Kassius when she began dating Green. "I don't talk to Bodhi like he's an adult, obviously, but I listen to everything he says to me and I believe in him: I believe that he sees things I don't see, I believe he has things to teach me, and so I don't act as a disciplinarian or an authority figure per se. I don't ever want to be a restrictive force on him; I want to be an expansive force...I want him to be inspired by me because he constantly inspires me as well. Motherhood has really deepened me and has given me so much perspective. I'm very dedicated."
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