A girl having a bust-up with her mate is nothing new and hardly newsworthy, except when the girls are famous. We’ve had much mud-slinging between glamour models Jordan and Jodie Marsh, tears and tantrums with Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton but it appears that Lindsay Lohan is keen to establish herself as numero uno in the celebrity feud stakes. She has had very public fall outs with former chum Paris Hilton and love-rival Hillary Duff, but now mired in her own personal controversies, La Lohan is lashing out on virtually every famous female she can think of.
Lindsay has recently been quoted as launching stinging verbal attacks on Sienna Miller: "no talent crackhead", Keira Knightley: “a flat, shallow, cardboard cutout of an actress and Scarlett Johansson: "fat and ugly." Her connections with these actresses are tenuous at best, with Miller having replaced Lohan after she dropped out of the Dylan Thomas biopic ‘The Best Time Of Our Lives’ co-starring Knightley, while her Scarlett fever seems to have started after acting alongside Johansson’s ex-boyfriend Jared Leto in ‘Chapter 27.’ But why, the need to lash out at all and sundry Lindsay?
Irrespective of her personal problems with drink and drugs addiction, her arguing parents and criminal misdemeanors, Lindsay Lohan is not doing well. Her career has been on a perpetual slump since 2004’s ‘Mean Girls’ and despite attempts to cross-over to a more mature, adult audience by working with the likes of Robert Altman, success has eluded her. Meanwhile other hot, young starlets such as Sienna, Scarlett and Keira have captured the public’s imagination and approval in ways that she can only watch and envy. Is it simple jealousy that has caused the cattiness?
Taking a closer look at the specific sentiments hurled, Lindsay criticized Keira’s acting. Interesting considering the Brit was Oscar nominated for her star turn in Pride and Prejudice. Sienna rose to fame on the arm of A-Lister Jude Law and with chums like Kate Moss and Sadie Frost has been heralded as a bohemian style icon. In contrast, Lindsay’s most high-profile romance was with love-rat Calum Best and has struggled with her personal image over the years. She has undergone dramatic changes in her hair colour, skin colour and weight resulting in so many looks, that she must need help keeping up. Lastly, Scarlett’s naturally voluptuous figure has seen her become one of the most drooled over women in Hollywood, whereas Lindsay’s weight has yo-yoed dangerously and she has had to battle endless rumours regarding a boob job.
Like Lindsay, Scarlet and Keira rose to fame at a young age and so we, the world, have witnessed first-hand their development from awkward, undeveloped teenagers to confident young women. For Lindsay this transition has proved the most difficult, as the former face of many Disney films has sought to rebel and shed her once-squeaky clean image in the full glare of the world’s media.
Are these public spats Lindsay trying to appear tough, independent and grown-up? As if picking faults in others will help us appreciate her strengths? Are they more cries for help from a girl who has had too-much too-soon? Or is she threatened by this new wave of actresses that seem to succeed where she fails? Making choices on appearance, image or career that she had shunned and so cannot understand their positive results? Whatever the psychology behind the outburst, it is another depressing example of women being critical of other women rather than celebrating their life choices. And for what? To seem bitchy and threatened. Come on girls, let’s shake hands and make-up. There are enough hot celebrity guys, top film roles and magazine photo shoots for each of you.
