Becoming ... Lindsay Lohan

See how the 17-year-old Mean Girls star rose from child actress to teen queen. By Lucy Maher

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CHILD STAR

After two years on the soap Another World and a starring role in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap, Lohan took a break from acting and spent four years in school full time. "It was a lot at once for me," says Lohan (in 1999) of her early career. "I was 12 years old and I wanted to be with my friends."