All About Megan Fox's Tattoos

The Body is a Canvas

This leading lady is best known from the hit science fiction movie,Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Before she made it big in the movies she was growing up on the set of the television series Hope & Faith where she had the recurring role of Hope's teenage daughter Sydney. Not surprising, before the acting bug hit Megan won awards for modeling and still continues to model today.
Megan Fox also likes to show her creative side on her skin with personal messages and images that hold meaning to her. Here is a collection of her tattoos to study and possibly inspire.

• Gilded Butterflies

Megan Fox has Old English text on her right scapula reading:

"We will all laugh at gilded butterflies."

This is a reference, not a complete quote (although pretty close), from Act V, Scene III of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear.
Here's a look-see at the tattoo:

Here is the full quote by King Lear to his daughter, Cordelia:

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison.
We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage.
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down
And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too-
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out-
And take upon 's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies; and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones
That ebb and flow by th' moon.

Love the Way You Lie
Here's the controversial music video by Eminem and Rihanna featuring Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan (Lost, Lord of the Rings). Despite the content I think it is well shot. You get to see lots of tattoo action too.

• Little Girls With Broken Hearts

Megan Fox is obviously a fan of stringing words together with her own personal meaning.
Like the large Old English text on her left rib cage.

there

once was

a little

girl who

never knew

love until

a boy

broke her

HEART

Here's a look-see at the tattoo:

• Marilyn Monroe

From One Goddess to Another
Megan Fox is an obvious fan of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. She has a popular image of Marilyn tattooed on her inner right forearm.
Here's a look-see at the tattoo:

As of April many sources are saying that Megan Fox is likely getting the famous icon lasered off as the image has been drastically fading but this has not been confirmed or denied by Fox's "people".

• Moon & Star

On the inner aspect of her lower leg above her right ankle, Megan Fox has a crescent moon overlapping a five pointed star. It is the one visibly colored tattoo that she has.

Here's a look-see at the tattoo:

• Brian

Megan Fox had a long term on again off again relationship with actor Brian Austin Green (Terminator, The Sarah Conner Chronicles) that lasted six years before she married him in the summer of 2010. She has a script tattoo of his first name between her pubic bone and right hip.

Here's a look-see at the tattoo:

• Yin and Yang

On the inside of Megan's left wrist is a tribal tattoo of two waves entwined like a yin and yang symbol. This tattoo has a bit of color but looks like black ink from a distance.

Here's a look-see at the tattoo:

• Strength

On the back of her neck just below the hairline Megan has a black ink tattoo of the Chinese symbol of strength in calligraphy. It's a simple tattoo with a strong meaning.

Here's what the tattoo would look like:

• Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no clear images of the complete tattoo but it has been pieced together that it is a quote widely attributed to German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (learn more about him below):

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

Since Megan has been known to change a word or two to make it relevant to her, I wouldn't be surprised if she's changed it up a bit.

• Rumored

There's a rumor that Megan has a tattoo of "I Love Steven Johnson" on her inner left thigh but I haven't seen it in all the pictures I've surfed through. If you find an image or can confirm this (or a possible tenth) drop me a line through the contact form above.
Another rumor is that she has a line of text on one of her buttocks (thanks to Alex for the tip) that had to be covered by make-up artists for Transformers.

The Breast Tattoo
Ever since the Armani underwear/jeans commercial came out there have been people commenting on a script tattoo over her right breast peeking out from under her bra. I was never really certain about it but now I'm pretty sure that it is just the lace from the bra. I watched the video in full screen mode numerous times and paused it. If you look at the shape of the lace on the opposite side of the triangle of the bra and what appears to be a tattoo you'll see that they are the same design. Also the Armani ad was posted to their official YouTube site (see ad below) in September 2010. When I looked at bikini shots of Megan from her Hawaii trip in December 2010, which show more breast than the ad does, it is obvious there is no tattoo there. So I'm concluding that it is lace in the Armani video and not a breast tattoo.

"The Tip" Armani Video