Lindsay Lohan has opened up about her early career, questioning why she wasn’t better protected from the intense scrutiny of the spotlight.
In a new interview, the Mean Girls actor told Vogue Arabia she often wonders: “Why didn’t anyone just go and take me out of there, protect me more?”
Lohan, who relocated to Dubai in 2014, met her husband, Kuwaiti financier Bader Shammas, in the city.
The couple welcomed their son, Luai, in July 2023.
Describing her relationship with her husband, Lohan, now 39, told the magazine: “We’re so good together because he’s so calm and I’m like a firecracker. We have a great balance.
“Being in Dubai is very grounding. I get to just spend time with my family. The city gives me a sense of being with what’s most important.”
She also said she enjoyed having more privacy now, adding: “That’s a big breath of fresh air, having to not overthink everything you do every second.”
The actor was just 12 when she starred in The Parent Trap, before going on to play many more roles in her teens, including in Freaky Friday and Mean Girls.
She told the magazine: “Now I look back and wonder, ‘Why didn’t anyone just go and take me out of there, protect me more?’
“You don’t know how to do that yourself when you’re a teenager.”
Lohan, who appears on the cover of the magazine and is set to star in upcoming TV series Count My Lies, said she is gaining a “different kind of confidence” as she gets older.
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“When I was younger, I wasn’t so comfortable saying how I felt about a character and being involved with the process of it,” she said.
“And I love that part now.”
The full, exclusive interview will be available in the March issue of Vogue Arabia.
