In just the past year, the public profile of actress Megan Fox has exploded: She hit No. 2 on AM's 2009 Top 99 like a surgical strike thanks to her head-to-toe beauty that wages a relentless campaign on a guy’s ability to look at any other woman. If Helen of Troy’s face launched a thousand ships, then Megan Fox's face is launching that many new fan pages every single day.

In the meantime, here are five things you didn’t know about Megan Fox.

1 - Megan Fox has a botched tattoo

Megan Fox doesn’t really look like all the other girls -- she looks better than them. Claiming French, Irish and Cherokee ancestry, Megan Fox was born in Tennessee, where the Cherokee had lived for generations before anyone called it Tennessee. Today, the Cherokee Nation represents one of the country’s largest Native American populations -- a tale of survival from which Megan Fox may one day need to draw inspiration, since she is as sizzling as can be right now and will need all the help she can get to stay that way.

2 - Megan Fox is part Cherokee

Megan Fox doesn’t really look like all the other girls -- she looks better than them. Claiming French, Irish and Cherokee ancestry, Megan Fox was born in Tennessee, where the Cherokee had lived for generations before anyone called it Tennessee. Today, the Cherokee Nation represents one of the country’s largest Native American populations -- a tale of survival from which Megan Fox may one day need to draw inspiration, since she is as sizzling as can be right now and will need all the help she can get to stay that way.

3 - Megan Fox has a rookie card

Another one of the five things you didn't know about Megan Fox is that you can collect her. In 2008, A-List Global Media created PopCardz: a set of trading cards featuring 40 A-list Hollywood celebrities (at least they’re A-list at the moment).

All the celebrities involved picked one or more charities to benefit from parts of the proceeds made off these cards. Megan Fox chose the Humane Society of the United States, a decision that reflects her long and abiding love for animals. Will Megan Fox’s rookie card one day demand the same respect given a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle? Only time will tell.

4 - Megan Fox was into performance jump rope

Wow, Megan Fox studied ballet, tap, acting, and performance jump rope? What hasn’t she done? Wait, what’s performance jump rope? According to the International Rope Skipping Federation, it’s a fast-spreading, organized, team and individual sport that features the likes of “Double-Dutch Freestyle,” “Criss-Cross,” “Triple-Unders,” and more.

5 - Megan Fox broke swimming records at age 8

The pot-smoking scandal involving Michael Phelps may have signaled the need for him to clear the podium and make way for a new American swimming hero, and why shouldn’t it be Megan Fox? While her accomplishments as a swimmer don’t quite measure up to Phelps’, she’ll look dynamite on the front of a Wheaties box.

Source : AskMen