Megan Fox Opened Up About The "Pressure" And "Shame" Of Being A Working Mom In Hollywood

"[Then] once you have the baby, it's like, 'Well, you're going to have to leave to nurse every two hours, and that costs us money, and now we're dealing with insurance,'" Megan recalled.

"It becomes this big thing," she added. "Hollywood is not adapted to women and us actually having lives and being moms."

"I had to be on a TV show," Megan said, recalling one of the times she gave birth. "So in your brain, you're delivering, and I'm like, 'OK, well I've got to lose 30 pounds in eight weeks.'"

"Those things are really stressful, and you're supposed to be bonding, and nurturing yourself, and nourishing your baby," she went on. "That creates a lot of tension and a lot of stress and a lot of anxiety for us to go back to work too early."

"You don't want to lose opportunities, and also, there is that thing in this industry of like, Well, are you giving up? Are you just a mom now?" Megan said. "There's this weird pressure, which also then creates guilt."

"You go to work too soon to satisfy those people, and then you have the guilt of, I shouldn't have gone back this soon," she elaborated. "Now I'm a bad mom. My baby will always have this imprint on them. I've done something wrong."

"The stress from both sides is really intense," Megan concluded. "Shame, guilt, all those things."

"It's been a patriarchy for so long that the power's been in the hands of people who don't understand and haven't been made to understand," she went on.

"It makes sense that it's played out this way."