Lindsay Lohan Is Just Like Marilyn Monroe, According To Lindsay Lohan

By Margaret Hartmann | August 26, 2011 | 12:04am

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Megan Fox says she’s outgrown her Marilyn Monroe obsession, but the same cannot be said for Lindsay Lohan. In the forward to the new book Marilyn: Intimate Exposures by Susan Bernard, Lindsay explains how very similar they are, saying, “Marilyn never wanted to be just a celebrity. Neither do I.” Lindsay writes:

“Marilyn was the beautiful bad girl in that tight, rose-colored dress. The character she played was strong and taking control, which I unconsciously knew at that young age [12] was a necessary quality for a woman … I can understand the photographer Bernard of Hollywood’s [Bruno Bernard] statement, ‘it took a superhuman effort to be Marilyn.’ I identify … People in their mind have created who I am and act as if there is no real person inside of me. Just like Marilyn … I had always thought that movie stars were in films that would last forever in your mind. But now the films don’t. I don’t want to be remembered as someone who just wanted to be photographed, who goes out at night, and gets in trouble … Heath Ledger once said to me, ‘It’s built you up to knock you down and that’s all it is … Marilyn said she had no foundation. But she said she was really working on it. I’ve been trying to do the same thing … I believe in myself and I’m a good actress.”

[HuffPo]

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