Lohan won’t undress for the camera either, which may incite collective chest-beating on the part of American men. But it’s not because she has anything to hide. “They’re totally real,” she says of her breasts. “I will admit that when I first started to develop boobs, my friends were like, ‘Oh my god, what happened, and are your boobs real?’ Even me, I was in shock because I was so flat that when I got a chest, it was like, wow. And compared to the rest of my body they kind of, like, popped. And they sit up.” She cups them with her hands and laughs. “But I’m young. I’m young and I only got my boobs, like, a year and a half ago, so of course they’re going to look good. I love ‘em.”
It’s hard to begrudge her that. Lohan the watchable, surfable, iPod-able product may delight millions of kids—not to mention the quorum of old New Orleans patricians overheard talking about her curves while sipping turtle soup out of teacups at a Mardi Gras luncheon—but she’s a thousand times more appealing in person. That’s because, topic after difficult topic, nothing seems to rattle her contagious good humor. Well, one thing rattles it: the widespread reports, from movie extras speaking anonymously to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, that she’s turned production of the Lucky project into a daily hell.“Where is this being said?” she asks, visibly stricken. “Are you serious? Well, if I were a nightmare, I don’t think I’d be doing it. I think it would be a karma issue. But that sucks and I don’t want to know about it.” She pauses and seems to roll the idea around in her head. “You know, I have so much s--- on my plate that if I’m having a bad day and you aren’t sympathetic towards that and I’m sympathetic towards you when you have your bad days, then I may say something to you, and I won’t regret it. But people have been great on this movie. People really have, and it’s been cool.”
Lohan still has a few storms to weather. Her father has recently been in talks with TV producers about building a reality show around the Lohan family—to the extent that he has access to the Lohan family—and the show appears to be moving forward. “Whatever,” says Lindsay. “As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get to the truth.”
