Chequered Life of Lindsay Lohan’s

Born Lindsay Dee Lohan in the Bronx, New York, on 2 July, 1986, Lohan’s life in front of the lens began at a very early age. She became a child model at the age of three, appearing in Vogue, Elle and a string of television commercials for the likes of Pizza Hut and The Gap. By the age of 10, she had landed a role in US soap opera Another World, a fertile breeding ground for new talent , which also give early roles to Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. Her life in film progressed smoothly and wholesomely, with critically-approved comedy roles in Freaky Friday , teen hit Mean Girls and Herbie Fully Loaded adding to her profile. Lohan made her feature film debut just a year later in squeaky clean Disney hit The Parent Trap. The 24-year-old wept into her lawyer’s shoulder in a Los Angeles courtroom as she was handed a 90-day prison sentence for probation violation, relating to a drugs charge dating back to 2007. A fresh-faced Lohan picked up an impressive clutch of Teen Choice and MTV Movie Award gongs. She branched out in 2004, becoming the youngest host of the MTV award ceremony, and developed an increasingly high profile away from the confines of Hollywood’s film sets. Her apparent weight loss and a string of car accidents created tabloid headlines, and the paparazzi began to trail the young star around Los Angeles. Lohan, meanwhile, continued to diversify. She had sung the closing song in Disney’s remake of Freaky Friday, which resulted in a record contract. Her debut album, Speak, was released in 2004 and made it to number four in the US album chart. Her follow-up a year later also proved a hit, and was a more soul-searching, confessional record about her relationship with her family, which she admitted had been a difficult one. Songwriting, Lohan said, was a way of finding escape from the increasing pressures of her life in the Hollywood goldfish bowl. Cameo roles followed in more adult-orientated films, including A Prairie Home Companion and Bobby – but Lohan’s reputation for enjoying the high life grew in 2006 when she was rebuked for late arrivals on the set of the film Georgia Rules. The film’s producer suggested in a letter, leaked to the press, that the actress’s “heat exhaustion” was simply the result of “ongoing all night heavy partying”. She began to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and admitted herself to a rehabilitation clinic in early 2007 – in what proved to be an annus horribilis for the star. Lohan was arrested twice for driving and drug offences and had two more stints in rehab. A jail sentence was imposed but she spent only 84 minutes behind bars, and was forced to visit a mortuary to learn the impact of drink-driving. While her personal life was splashed across the front pages, her film career was hitting a low point. Grisly psychological thriller I Know Who Killed Me was mauled by the critics – The New York Post branded it “sleazy, inept and worthless – and Lohan was given the dubious honour of a Razzie award for worst performance. Subsequent years saw Lohan drift into smaller TV roles, including fronting a BBC documentary about child trafficking, while the tabloid headlines kept rolling in. She had a much-publicised relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson, but refused to answer questions about her sexuality. The couple’s subsequent break-up saw Lohan take the unusual step of putting out a spoof video dating advert, introducing herself as “a workaholic, a shopaholic and, according to the state of California, an alcoholic”. Lohan also joked about her ongoing probation and the ever-growing number of Google searches about her private life.In recent months, the actress has gained further notoreity for brushes with the legal system and her apparently wayward lifestyle. She missed a routine court appearance, unable to return from the Cannes Film Festival after losing her passport. An initial warrant for her arrest was later revoked. Lohan was later ordered to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet as part of her probation deal, which activated during an MTV Movie Awards party. The final path to jail was laid when she failed to attend alcohol education classes, although she insisted she had done “everything I was told to do”. Whether the Hollywood star has the capacity to generate news stories about her work rather than her fraught personal life remains to be seen. (Visit my site and see the latest and most popular Tiffany Jewelry designs.)