Lindsay Lohan Shares Which of Her Movies She Can’t Wait for Her Son To Watch

As she gears up for her son Luai’s second birthday next week, Lindsay Lohan reflects on her first two years of motherhood with positive vibes.

“It’s incredible, really,” the actress tells Parents. “It's such a joy. It's so exciting. Every day is a new day, and he's doing something different.”

These days, her toddler is all about counting. “Even if it's wanting to now explore the stairs, which is always this scary thing for parents, he's counting the stairs,” she says. “He really wants to always get to like 10, and he really gets very excited for himself.”

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Luai is also picking up some mannerisms from his famous mom and dad, businessman Bader Shammas, whom Lohan married in 2022.

“I see me and my husband in him all the time,” she says. “Certain faces he makes are just like my husband's, and the way he talks sometimes, it’s just like me.”

While she gushes on the sweet parts of parenthood, the 39-year-old doesn’t pretend to have it all figured out. She says this era of her life is all about evolving. She’s learning how to balance being a mom, marriage, and her career, while planning to have more children one day.

“I think it's just always a beautiful learning opportunity,” she says. “Every day is a new day, and I'm really grateful.”

Mixing Parenting With Acting

Lohan has graced the screen for decades with iconic roles including Hallie Parker in The Parent Trap and Cady Heron in Mean Girls. In recent years, she’s starred in more feel-good films, such as Irish Wish and Our Little Secret. To the delight of fans, she’s reprising her beloved role of Anna Coleman in Freakier Friday out on August 8, 2025, the follow-up to 2003’s Freaky Friday.

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Now, she’s starring in campaigns that align with her life as a mom. She’s partnered with Verizon to promote its “Best Value Guarantee,” which offers family deals, including different plans for parents and children under one account. In the campaign video, Lohan playfully shows some of the chaos that comes with parenting—think a mountain of toys, stress of packing, and outfits galore.

“I really loved what they were standing for in the commercial,” Lohan says. “It's very realistic. Being a mom and juggling things and you always want to have access to your family on your phone and know you're all in the same network.”

There’s joy in her son getting to see her work, too. He’s already spotted his mom in The Parent Trap, although “he doesn’t have the bandwidth to sit and watch,” she jokes. “I can get him to watch like Moana or parts of Dinosaur.”

Lohan says she’s looking forward to the day he is old enough to sit through one of her movies, particularly Herbie: Fully Loaded, the 2005 Disney film where she starred as a young auto racer.

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“My whole thing now is like when am I gonna get a film that he's gonna think I'm cool in?” she says. “I gotta do something cool.”

She’s on the lookout to do more movies he’ll get to watch as he grows, but she’s not leaving behind roles aimed for an adult audience.

“I've always loved to do family films that bring people together, that's just part of what I love to do in my craft,” she says. “But I still have to do films that are good for me to explore acting-wise, where I can challenge myself. So there's a balance of both.”

Getting Real About Work-Life Balance

Lohan is embracing the changes that inevitably have come with parenthood.

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“You're always on high alert becoming a mom. I think you become more sensitive in a different way towards your children's feelings and everything is now about them. The child comes first,” she says. “And for me, there’s a different kind of patience you kind of develop as a parent.”

Two years of parenting has taught her that moms can’t pour from an empty cup. Lohan stresses the importance of self-care. That includes a morning tea before her son wakes up, and her skincare routine, whether she’s in the U.S. or in Dubai, where the family lives. She’s also big on staying active.

“I definitely exercise when I can, even if it's taking my son on walks,” she says. “If I have a long day and I don't have time to actually do Pilates, if I don't have time to take that hour out, I take him on a walk and get myself moving.”

Lohan, who describes herself as a hands-on parent, focuses on being as present as she can be. That’s why work-life balance is something she takes seriously.

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“I try to keep my schedule so that whenever I am working, I'm always there for morning time or bedtime,” she says. “That's really important to me just because those are moments that you really cherish with your child, and don't have them forever.”

Motherhood has encouraged her to really focus on doing what works best for her.

“I think the biggest thing that I've learned is that at this point, the work that I choose to do has to work out for my family, like it has to make sense for all of us as a unit, so the three of us have to be aligned for it,” she says.

That’s more true than ever as her son is getting ready to go to preschool.

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“That's a big deal,” she shares. “I want him to be able to adjust to where he's going to go. So that's a big factor that comes into everything now. Everything has to make sense in order for me to really put my heart into it.”

As for letting go? That might take a little more time.

“I feel like he's gonna love it, and I'm gonna cry,” she says of her son starting preschool. “I’m gonna be like sitting outside spying.”

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