Lindsay Lohan's Dangerous Marilyn Monroe Obsession
Is the Mean Girls star perpetuating her own downhill spiral with her passion for a doomed star?


Updated on May 18, 2011, 5:16 pm ET

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Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn MonroeWhen we are growing up we tend to idolize people we admire. Role models who have lived the kind of life we hope to emulate. But in the case of Lindsay Lohan, her idol is a woman who was chewed up and spat out by Hollywood and died of an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 36. It paints a worrying picture, doesn't it?

Lindsay is a huge Marilyn Monroe fan. Her obsession began when she was just a kid, filming The Parent Trap in London at the age of 12. She watched the 1953 film Niagara (in which Marilyn plays a murderous, cheating wife) countless times and was fascinated. Last year Lindsay posed as the doomed blonde bombshell for a recreation of Marilyn's iconic last sitting with photographer Bert Stern.

Lindsay in Spanish VogueAnd now, as the 47th anniversary of Marilyn's death approaches on August 4, she's done yet another shoot inspired by the star for Spanish Vogue, in which she wears a Dolce & Gabbana dress featuring stark black-white-images of Marilyn.

But that's not where Lindsay's love for the icon ends. She also has a tattoo on her wrist featuring a Marilyn quote ("Everyone's a star and deserves to sparkle") and incorporated 6126, the legend's date of birth, in the names of her leggings line and Twitter account.

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hope_xo
#1. hope_xo on 08/03/2009 - 10:28 am (EDT)
Eh, idk.
rose07
#2. rose07 on 08/03/2009 - 10:49 am (EDT)
This is interesting. I guess everyone needs an inspiration right?
Shanece
#3. Shanece on 08/03/2009 - 11:36 am (EDT)
ummm I think I am slightly disturbed by Lindsay Lohan's obsession with Marilyn Monroe. Can't Lohan just appreciate and love Marilyn like Megan Fox does without trying to "be" her. psycho doppelganger alert
Manicmommy
#4. Manicmommy on 08/03/2009 - 12:39 pm (EDT)
Ha Lindsay as the new Marilyn Monroe -- that's a laugh!
HisTechnoAngel
#5. HisTechnoAngel on 08/03/2009 - 2:27 pm (EDT)
I'm sorry but Lindsey Lohan is NOWHERE NEAR Marilyn Monroe's iconic status. Marilyn is one in a million... I too am a HUGE fan of hers... there's just no comparison. Marilyn had a natural beauty to her that was simple and at the same time highly sexual. Lindsey- pbbbtt yeah right.
MsFahrenheit
#6. MsFahrenheit on 08/03/2009 - 3:10 pm (EDT)
I wish she'd stop!!! She isn't even doing anything with her life! Why is she still famous?!?!?!?!
iaretehsarah
#7. iaretehsarah on 08/03/2009 - 9:01 pm (EDT)
I think people are looking way too much into this all.
bryony1
#8. bryony1 on 08/04/2009 - 11:50 am (EDT)

















Lindsay Lohan will do anything for attention, the sign of a very disturbed person. Even more disturbing is how entertainment writers/editors gobble it up like pigs at the trough.



littlelady
#9. littlelady on 08/04/2009 - 1:47 pm (EDT)
i think it's funny how she thinks she's going to be iconic like Marilyn. She wishes!
rosie818
#10. rosie818 on 08/04/2009 - 3:33 pm (EDT)
I can understand her aspiring to be like Marilyn but she pales in comparison

 


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