Lindsay: Red, Fed and Feuding?
Have you spent many a long, lonely night freeze-framing "Mean Girls" and wishing Lindsay Lohan would ditch her dire blond 'do and skin-and-bones bod and reclaim her once-flowing Titian tresses and overflowing T-shirt? Well, good news. It appears the teen queen has taken a cue from Cher and turned back time.
Lindsay, 19, arrived at Premiere magazine's Women in Hollywood soiree Tuesday night in L.A. sporting not just her trademark red-hued coif but also some much-needed meat on her formerly frail frame (a welcome gain that was noticeable even with the Chanel sheet she'd donned for the evening).
Despite her healthy glow, the starlet has already resigned herself to the inevitable potshots she'll face from those who prefer their teen queens cadaverous instead of curvy.
"Now they're going to say I am overweight, which is ridiculous," she sighs to "Entertainment Tonight. "I don't know what to say to that ... you grow up and you mature."
Lohan, who could once go arm-to-stick-thin arm with her bobble-headed bud Nicole Richie, admits she probably did get a little too twiggy earlier this year.
"I was going through a rough time and I probably wasn't taking care of myself -- I wasn't," says Lindsay. "I want to encourage young girls to not get to that point ..."
(You'll recall that back in May, the teeny-tiny actress told Teen Vogue that "compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight," and insisted to People that her alarmingly slimmed-down appearance was due to "working out -- I just got a trainer.")
In addition to weighing in on her weight, Lindsay also apparently found time on Tuesday night to fan the flames of her feud with Hilary Duff, who could also stand to down a grilled cheese sandwich ... or twelve.
According to the New York Daily News, the longtime rivals (the animosity can be traced back to their love triangle with Aaron Carter -- yes, we realize how dumb that sounds) faced off at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood bash.
The paper claims they set up competing camps on opposite sides of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel pool and "exchanged ominous glares all night long." (Yes, we realize how dumb this sounds.)
Lohan's faction reportedly included Kirsten Dunst and Richie (along with Nicole's fiancé, Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein), while Duff was backed up by boyfriend Joel Madden, her ubiquitous sister Haylie, Lohan's ex Wilmer Valderrama (sadly, he and Lindsay did not have a dance-off rematch), Kimberly "Future 'Surreal Life' Star" Stewart and the cast from "Laguna Beach."
"There was a lot of tension, a lot of evil looks," a spywitness tells the paper. "Nobody went into the other's territory."
But reps for the starlets quickly pooh-poohed the purported poolside stare-downs, with Lohan's mouthpiece insisting she was there in support of little sis Aliana and Duff's flack denying the sisters even peeped out Lindsay.
Tensions between the teens have allegedly flared up in recent weeks because Lohan claims she was given the brush off when she tried to phone in a détente.
"Lindsay called Hilary and was like, 'Enough?' And Hilary just said, 'No [bleeping] way,' and hung up on her," an insider tattles to the paper. "Hilary's a wolf in sheep's clothing, so Linds is done."
Haylie, however, denies that Lohan tried to reach out and touch them, telling a radio station last week, "That never happened." Hilary's mouthpiece also dismisses the story, saying the teens have never talked on the phone.
This was supposedly the second showdown Lohan was involved in at the Roosevelt in less than a week. The New York Post claims she was caught in the crossfire between squabbling "Simple Life" stars Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie during a post-Emmy party.
According to the paper, Paris held court on one side of the soiree with doppelganger Kim Stewart and Mary-Kate Olsen, while Nicole and new BFF Mischa Barton possessed the other.
Lohan, who has somehow managed to play Switzerland amid the warfare, supposedly spent the night "running back and forth" between the two groups, a maneuver that didn't sit well with Nicole.
One witness giggles to the Post, "The whole thing was hysterical."
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)