Confessions of A Former Disney Princess, I'm Still Riding With Lindsay Lohan!

The news is buzzing with updates about Lindsay Lohan’s jail time. Although many people seem fascinated with Lindsay’s legal woes (only celebrity court cases that will get viewers are actually taped. Eg. OJ Simpson), it just makes me sad.

I was truly a Disney-kid. I cried when I couldn’t dress up as Princess Jasmine for Halloween, I still know every line of every song from The Lion King, and back in the days of Zoog Disney, I used to tune in every month to watch the Disney Channel’s latest made-for-TV movie. Watching Lindsay Lohan, an actress who first entered my generation’s collective heart when she played twin sisters, Hallie Parker and Annie James in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, struggle like this is upsetting. 

Lindsay Lohan is a textbook example of a child star gone astray under the pressure of too much fame. After appearing in a few Disney channel movies in her tween years, she played burst back on to the scene starring as Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter in Freaky Friday. It was a cute, family-friendly movie, and people like Lindsay, but it was nothing too extreme. Then came Mean Girls.