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Lindsay Lohan's Dangerous Marilyn Monroe Obsession

Is the Mean Girls star perpetuating her own downhill spiral with her passion for a doomed star?

-Kathy Campbell and Kelly Will

When 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.

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And 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.