2007 Hot Issue

"I don't find myself attractive," claims Megan Fox, 21, who is fast becoming the pinup girl for her generation. "I think it's way easier to capture me from an angle where I look like Steve Buscemi." No doubt anyone who watched the raven-haired actress lean her taut middle over a car hood in Transformers would disagree. ("My stomach looks that flat because I was lit well and they put Hawaiian oil on my skin," she insists.) Michael Bay's summer blockbuster helped make a leading lady of the former teen-comedy sidekick, who launched her career with roles in Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's Holiday in the Sun and Lindsay Lohan's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Now that she's battled Decepticons, there are countless Web sites devoted to her lusciousness. Appropriately, Fox's next role will be as a Hollywood It girl in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Though she cavorts with a celebrity-rag writer in the film, she claims that, in real life, she and her live-in boyfriend, Beverly Hills 90210 alum Brian Austin Green, manage to avoid the tabloids. "I never leave my house," she says. "You should see what I wear: sweatpants and a big T-shirt with NY Mets on it. Who wants to write about that?" --CARLA HALL