--- description: Working mom Megan Fox says she carries "a lot of guilt" about parenting her two young sons title: Even Super Hot Parents Who Only Make One Movie a Year Feel Guilty image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9555a99866246604/69869ab9f983e730a504eb3d/159419730.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Even Super Hot Parents Who Only Make One Movie a Year Feel Guilty  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Jul 7, 2014 5:06 PM CUT  Actress Megan Fox arrives at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 13, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Jeff Vespa--WireImage) Actress Megan Fox arrives at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 13, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Jeff Vespa--WireImage)Jeff Vespa—WireImage  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Jul 7, 2014 5:06 PM CUT 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? [Gwyneth Paltrow](http://time.com/41966/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-mom-problem-working-in-movies-is-hard-for-her-but-harder-if-youre-not-the-star/ "undefined") knows how that is. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2962963/megan-fox-parenting-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2962963/megan-fox-parenting-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/"},"headline":"Even Super Hot Parents Who Only Make One Movie a Year Feel Guilty","datePublished":"2014-07-07T17:06:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:36.355Z","description":"Working mom Megan Fox says she carries \"a lot of guilt\" about parenting her two young sons","url":"https://time.com/2962963/megan-fox-parenting-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/","keywords":["Living","Parenting","movies","Gwyneth Paltrow","Transformers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9555a99866246604/69869ab9f983e730a504eb3d/159419730.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9555a99866246604/69869ab9f983e730a504eb3d/159419730.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"70th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals","caption":"70th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Jeff Vespa—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2962963/megan-fox-parenting-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/","name":"Even Super Hot Parents Who Only Make One Movie a Year Feel Guilty"}}]}] ```