Mean Girls Made Lindsay Lohan a Star, Then Hollywood Abandoned Her

Let's get into Lindsay Lohan! Mean Girls turned her into the it-girl of a generation, and then the same machine that built her seemed to chew her up and walk away. At her peak she was the most bankable young star in Hollywood, but the relentless schedule, the tabloid pile-ons, and a famously chaotic support system around her created the perfect storm for a very public unraveling. The industry that cashed in on her image was quick to brand her a liability the moment she stumbled, offering scorn instead of help. Looking back, her story reads less like a cautionary tale about one wild starlet and more like an indictment of how Hollywood treats the young women it profits from.

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