Queer of the Month, March 2009 | Lindsay Lohan

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By the age of eleven, Lindsay Lohan was a show business veteran with a career in modeling and commercials, and a regular role on a daily soap opera.  At age twelve, she starred in the Disney remake of The Parent Trap, garnering favorable reviews.  Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan called her “the soul of this film as much as Hayley Mills was of the original, and…she is more adept than her predecessor at creating two distinct personalities.”  Lohan followed that with another Disney remake, Freaky Friday, playing Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter.  In 2004, Lohan became a major star with the success of Mean Girls, a teen comedy written by Tina Fey.

Pursuing a singing career, in 2004 Lohan released her debut album Speak, produced by Emilio Estefan, Jr., which went platinum. A second album was less successful.

As Lohan became a celebrity and paparazzi began to follow her every move, personal and professional problems began to emerge.  During filming of Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2005 she was hospitalized with a kidney infection.  Overstressed, she refused to promote the film and Disney dropped her from their publicity.  A public row erupted with producers of her next movie, Georgia Rule, who wrote her a letter complaining: “You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness; today we were told it was ‘heat exhaustion.’ We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called ‘exhaustion.”’

Lohan has had a troubled relationship with her father, a former stock broker who has been in and out of prison for fraud and probation violations. He has not hesitated to inject himself into the limelight surrounding his daughter, sagely pronouncing his advice and expressing concern for her welfare to any reporter who will listen.

In 2007, Lohan was arrested twice for DUI and underwent treatment in a rehabilitation center. Unable to obtain insurance, due to her unpredictability, Lohan became unemployable in films.  At the same time she has maintained her place in the spotlight, conducting an affair with a young British DJ, Samantha Ronson (b. 1977), complete with public shows of affection and shouting matches.  In a Harper’s Bazzar interview, Lohan summed it up when asked about Ronson: “I think it’s pretty obvious who I’m seeing…I think it’s no shock to anyone that it’s been going on for quite some time…she’s a wonderful person and I love her very much.”

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