Lindsay Lohan fights back to shield her son: Shocking revelation

Lindsay Lohan played iconic characters when she was young, seeing major success as a child star, and the actress is talking about the fallout of that with the ruthless paparazzi around.

The Parent Trap star, who shares a 2-year-old son with husband Bader Shammas, revealed that the pair are always talking about how to protect his privacy.

In an interview with The Sunday Times the 39-year-old stated, “I don’t ever want my family to experience being chased by the paparazzi the way I was. They were terrifying moments I had in my life — I have PTSD to the extreme from those things. The most invasive situations. Really scary.”

Lindsay continued noting that the current climate has changed and people actually have more control over how they are perceived and the paparazzi are also not as relentless anymore.

The Mean Girls alum also said that the stars that were age didn’t have that “but what I have learned over time is how to separate my private life and public life, and that was difficult for me because nobody ever teaches you how to do that.”

Lindsay also touched on fan interactions in public, expressing that she would prefer it if they didn’t film her without her knowledge and instead came up to her to ask for pictures.

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