--- title: Megan Fox Feels Guilty About Parenting Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles description: Working mom Megan Fox says she carries "a lot of guilt" about parenting her two young sons canonical: https://time.com/2962963/megan-fox-parenting-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-07T17:06:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:36.355Z og:title: Even Super Hot Parents Who Only Make One Movie a Year Feel Guilty og:description: Working mom Megan Fox says she carries "a lot of guilt" about parenting her two young sons og:url: https://time.com/2962963/megan-fox-parenting-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9555a99866246604/69869ab9f983e730a504eb3d/159419730.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2190 og:image:height: 1232 og:image:alt: 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Even Super Hot Parents Who Only Make One Movie a Year Feel Guilty twitter:description: Working mom Megan Fox says she carries "a lot of guilt" about parenting her two young sons twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9555a99866246604/69869ab9f983e730a504eb3d/159419730.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Even Super Hot Parents Who Only Make One Movie a Year Feel Guilty > Sponsored content. 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(Jeff Vespa--WireImage) Jeff Vespa—WireImage  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jul 7, 2014 5:06 PM UTC If even Megan Fox feels guilty about parenting, let’s just give up now. The _Transformers_ star told _Parenting_ magazine she never feels like she’s the perfect mom to sons Bodhi, 4 months, and Noah, almost 2, even though she’s cut her moviemaking down to one film per year. --- > “” --- Fox said she has cut down on her hours on the set so she can spend more time with her boys, but feels it’s important to keep making movies so that she can support them in the future (next up is _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,_ out in August.) --- > “” --- So she works 10-20 days a year and feels guilty? 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