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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At 3, Lohan signed on as a Ford Model, and by elementary school was appearing in commercials for Jell-O and The Gap. "I was comfortable in front of the camera," says Lohan (at 6 in an ice cream commercial). "It's not too often that a young kid smiles and stuff like that on cue."