Megan Fox says she keeps her children away from television: ‘I’m making my kids into artistic nature-hippies’

'I would love one of them to be a painter or a poet and like wear scarves and walk around Paris like angsty,' says Fox

Known for her roles in Jonah Hex and Transformers – two films based on comic books – Fox is famed for her fondness of all things geek related (GETTY IMAGES)

Megan Fox is famed for her fondness of all things geek related.

Known for her roles in Jonah Hex and Transformers, two films based on comic books, she has frequently cited her wide-ranging knowledge of the genre. But the American model and actress is determined to keep her children away from television and technology as a whole.

“I try not to expose them to technology,” the 29-year-old told People at a comic con for her forthcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel. “It’s hard to make them super nerds if I don’t let them watch television or movies, or get on an iPhone or an iPad,” Fox added.

On the contrary, the Tenessee-born actress says she is keen to make her children “artistic nature-hippies” instead. “I would love one of them to be a painter or a poet and, like, wear scarves and walk around Paris, like angsty,” she went on to say.

Steering clear of technology can be “challenging as a parent because so many people use that as a babysitter, and they’re like, ‘I just need an hour to clean the dishes – watch this movie or play Angry Birds on my phone’,” she explained. “It’s actually really bad for their brain development, and I’m trying to breed, like, superheroes. I don’t want them to get f***ed-up brains”.

Fox has two children, Noah who is three and Bodhi who is one, who share their time between herself and her ex-husband Brian Austin Green.