"When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married"
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The subtext is about infantilization, a trap that’s especially vicious for women who become famous young and are branded through sexuality. Fox’s public image has long been treated as a kind of arrested development: the “hot young thing” who can’t also be a grown adult with boring, durable institutions like marriage. When she says people “roll their eyes,” she’s describing a cultural reflex: celebrity relationships as PR, actresses as unreliable narrators of their own lives, and Fox in particular as a figure audiences think they already decoded.
The comparison also flips the power dynamic. In the martini scene, the waiter is the gatekeeper of adulthood; in the marriage scene, the gatekeepers are the audience and the media. The line lands because it reveals how ridicule works socially: it doesn’t argue, it dismisses. Fox isn’t asking to be admired; she’s asking to be believed - and pointing out how fame can freeze you at the age the public first met you.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Fox, Megan. (2026, January 18). When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-talk-about-my-husband-i-feel-as-if-people-17119/
Chicago Style
Fox, Megan. "When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-talk-about-my-husband-i-feel-as-if-people-17119/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-i-talk-about-my-husband-i-feel-as-if-people-17119/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.







