Lindsey Lohan: A Puzzled Teenager

Life is simple yet complex at the same time. It has its share of ups and lows. It does not take into consideration one's status in society. This is the reason why a great number of individuals say that life is hard, cruel, and the like. Take for example Lindsey Lohan. Though she got a great career in Hollywood's big screen, she is badly beaten by real life troubles that come her way.

Born in New York City on the 2nd of July 1986, Lindsey Lohan is the eldest among the four children of Micheal Lohan, a former actor, and Dina Sullivan, a former Wall Street analyst. Since both parents are working professionals, Lindsey grew up in an affluent middle class family. They moved back and forth from Los Angeles and New York City.

Lindsey began her career as a model for Toys R Us at the age of three. Calvin Klein kids and Abercrombie kids followed suit. Then she also appeared in magazines, such as Vogue, Elle, Bliss, and the like. She was the face of childhood in her early years.

Lindsey's first attempt at the big screen wasn't an instant hit. She was noticed in the remake of Parent Trap when she played two roles that reunites their separated parents. But her real break out movie is in Mean Girls, where she played the leading role. She was portrayed as the daughter of two scientists residing in Africa. She moved back to the United States without any background in the schooling system, since she was home-schooled ever since she was a little girl.
Adjusting to the environment, she blended well with adversaries and friends. More movies followed soon.

Success came at a price for Lindsey. She lost the formative years an ordinary teenager experiences. She was already somebody then. She grew up fast. The consequences are now coming out one by one. She was caught driving under the influence (DUI) for more than a couple of times now. The worst came when she was caught with illegal drugs.

Lindsey, underneath all her accolades and Hollywood stature, is a good person. She just needs a little direction. Maybe her elders were too busy basking at the grace of the economic benefits that this young lady brought to them. Lindsey Lohan is a little bit confused inside.

San Antonio Spurs' Eva Longoria

Watching the beloved Spurs live at The Alamodome in San Antonio gives you a double treat, with the live basketball action and the pretty face sitting behind the home team bench. This pretty face have been a fixture at the Spurs games since 2006. She is no other than Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, the wife of the Spurs French point guard and recent NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) Tony Parker.

Eva Longoria was never like other mainstream female celebrities who made it big in show business. She did not have any relatives or close knit people in the industry. She made it on sheer luck, by giving it a shot in a talent contest that led her to Los Angeles and Hollywood of course, from obscurity to popularity. Two words which seem far opposites and irreconcilable but are trademarks in Eva's career.

Eva Longoria and her three siblings grew up as farm girls in Corpus Christi, Texas. She was raised by her parents Enrique Longoria, Jr. and Ella Eva Miriles, in their family owned farm land that was passed on by the previous generation. Eva lived the life of a county girl, studying in the public schools in the area from elementary up to high school. They were not well off since the farm does not earn much money. Longoria's college years was also spent in the Lonestar Star State at the Texas A & M University - Kingsville. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology.

After graduation, she joined the beauty pageant in her home county, Nueces, and became their borough's representative. She was then known as Miss Corpus Christi, USA in 1998. This was the beginning of her showbiz career. Soon she joined a talent contest that brought her to Hollywood.

Her first television appearance was in the year 2000, where she became a guest in one of Beverly Hills 90210 episodes. Since then, she had a lot of TV Series appearances such as The Young and The Restless, The Talent Agency, and Dragnet, just to mention a few. She was also in the movies The Sentinel and The Harsh Times. It is in the series Desperate Housewives where she made it real big, playing the character of Gabrielle Solis.

On the personal level, Longoria had her share of disappointments with her love affair. First she was married to Actor Tyler Christopher for almost two years, from 2002-2004. She got her divorce papers. She was also linked to the likes of Sean Farris, JC Chasez of N'Sync, and the writer Milan Garcanin.

Eva finally settled down with the Frenchman diminutive baller -of course by NBA Standards, standing at 6'2", in Tony Parker. They admitted the relationship in public just around last year. The two got married in Paris last 6 July 2oo7. It was a fitting victory for the couple, with the Spurs getting the NBA Finals trophy via a four game sweep of the LeBron James-led Cleveland Cavaliers, Tony getting the MVP award, and Eva looking for another successful season of Desperate Housewives.