Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan is telling the world that she is not perfect just because she’s a celebrity. She’s taken the words straight out of Jennifer Lopez’s mouth and said, “I’M REAL!” Even though you might not think her boobs are the real thing, the rest of her is pretty darn human. She’s made no secret of things like her battle with alcohol and eating disorders in the past and now talks about her insecurities in the latest issue of Los Angeles Confidential.

When speaking about her stripper role in the movie, I Know Who Killed Me, Lindsay says, “I do a lot of crying in scenes. At one point, [my character] takes a bunch of pills. I didn’t know how to approach the challenge, so I just dove in.”

As for the stripping scenes, she says, “Leading up to it, I was a little shaky, but I had some friends on set and in the end I wasn’t nervous. Once I was in costume and really ‘in it,’ the scene went great. It doesn’t come across as cheesy or gross, like, oh, she just wanted to take her clothes off.”

What is striking about this interview is that she is talking about how hard it was to take drugs and strip for scenes, when recently in real life she’s been admitted into rehab and was pictured half-naked playing with knives (with friend Vanessa Millinno). It seems to be a bit of a contradiction at first, but what it shows is that when the cameras aren’t rolling, it’s the stuff that gets into the tabloids and marrs your reputation as a PERSON, not an ACTRESS, that is more difficult to deal with than what you do on the big screen. It might be easier to do things in real life because no one is watching - or so you think - but it fuels the greasy tabloids into showing the world just how human you really are, before making a joke out of it.

Maybe it’s this knowledge and experience that makes Lindsay want to say, ‘Look at me, yes I’m real, I’m human.’ Perhaps she feels the need to say it with her own words before we look at the incriminating video footage and get sucked into the tabloid’s view that she is just another wild child with a lot of money to burn and boredom to distract… In actual fact, one can’t help but still feel compassion towards Lindsay. “The thing is, people do things and mess up. No one’s perfect. I’m human. The real hard thing about L.A. is that it’s all about one thing. Everyone always wants something. This industry is very lonely; I tend to get very lonely,” she says.

Lindsay Lohan