Celebrity latest news: Thumbs up or thumbs down for Megan Fox’s thumb?
February 10, 2010
Celebrity latest news reports about Megan Fox’s weird thumb. It looks like the most desired woman is not so perfect after all! The internet has been abuzz regarding new photos of Megan Fox with unusually large thumbs.
The actress, who is basically perfect in every way, does have one slight imperfection: a wide right thumb. The hand got face time last summer after publicity shots of the actress and her unusual-sized thumb first surfaced. Technically called brachydactyly, the club-thumb trait is no big deal because its just have a big thumb.
The condition, which literally means “short finger,” is usually hereditary and is not considered serious. But when the Super Bowl ad aired with a close-up of Motorola’s digital gadget, Megan’s digit seemed to have been replaced with a slender stand-in, sending the blogosphere into a serious uproar and Web searches into the stratosphere. The Daily Mail pointed an accusatory finger at the phone maker, and claimed they brought in a thumb-double for Megan’s not-so-pretty appendage.
The medical term for Megan Fox’s ever so slightly misshapen thumb is brachydactyly, which is basically a fancy word for a clubbed thumb, according to local hand surgeons. “Literally, what it means is short finger,” says Dr. Steven Bendner, a hand surgeon at Beth Israel Medical Center. “The nail of the thumb in this condition is often very short and wide.� Though the thumb is certainly not what most people are looking at when they look at Fox, it’s worth noting that her condition is often inherited, doctors say.
“It is usually hereditary,” Beldner explains. “Although it could also have been caused by frostbite, or it could have been an injury to the growth plate in childhood.” Though it’s much less noticeable when a child is young, the condition becomes more visible during growth and maturity. About 1 in 1,000 people has the condition, Beldner says.
In Megan Fox’s thumb case, it appears that only the last bone of the thumb is affected and that it does not involve the joint. For her, it looks like it’s just a cosmetic deficit.
However, Megan Fox’s thumb doesn’t seem to bother her…or her millions of fans.
“I know I’m seen as a sex object,” Fox recently told Esquire magazine. “I’m just really confident sexually, and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores. It’s just there. It’s something I don’t have to turn on.”
We give the actress a “thumbs up” for embracing her imperfections, clubbed or not. Stay in touch for more celebrity latest news.
Posted by Angelia Kates · Filed Under Celebrity News
