One of the funniest things the Internet has given us is seeing Mariah Carey bend the search curve on Google Trends because of Christmas as if it were Fernando Simón in the middle of a pandemic. But, both in 2022 and in 2024, Lindsay Lohan has managed to overshadow the interpreter of ‘All I Want for Christmas is You‘, and it has done it with the help of Netflix. Because in recent years there is nothing more Christmassy than a sofa, blanket and Lindsay Lohan movie on Netflix; and because, why fool ourselves, Hollywood likes few things more than a good comeback.

Hallmark Channel He walked so that others could run, and at Christmas the streaming platforms, especially Netflix, bet on a figure who is his Iron Man in its particular Christmas cinematic universe. Vanessa Hudgens (‘Princess Switch’, ‘The Christmas Knight’, ‘Princess Switch’, ‘Princess Switch’; normal, because it’s difficult to revalidate the title with someone like Lohan competing in this category. Another story of a former Disney girl, but this time with her own arc of redemption and improvement. Is there anything more Christmassy?

This path to being crowned Netflix’s new Christmas queen is not something that comes as a surprise, and the life of Disney girls is usually a real roller coaster plagued with successes and a subsequent fall to hell. Lohan herself rose to fame at just 11 years old thanks to the film ‘You to London and I to California’, becoming a child icon. Her career from then on was unstoppable and titles such as ‘Herbie to the Top’, ‘Give Me Back My Luck’, ‘Put Yourself in My Place’ and the generational icon ‘Mean Girls’ consolidated her position in Hollywood.

But that good girl role It started to fall apart in 2007. when she was surrounded by numerous controversies. In the mid-2000s, being the face of many mediocre projects, an unsuccessful flirtation with music and various family problems were not the only tragedies that stalked the actress. Everything blew up with the publication of photos in a questionable status with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, which added to his problems with drug and alcohol consumption. That bad reputation It began to cost him his participation in new interesting productions.

The debacle was unstoppable and being called “problematic” on the set of ‘Georgia Says It’ was a small thing in the chaotic life of the actress. Starting in 2007, she was arrested up to six times in a period of eight years and served a three-month sentence in a Californian prison, in addition to being in the news on many occasions for her admission to rehabilitation clinics.

With all this journey, the impossible and unrealistic mask of perfect disney girl He had completely disappeared and his career seemed to be doomed. But if there’s one thing Hollywood has taught us, especially with awards seasons approaching, it’s that few things fascinate it as much as a story of recovery and resurgence. phoenix Which is Lohan.

The queen of Christmas and guilty pleasure

Netflix has been the actress’s best ally to return in a big way. In 2022 Lohan tries her luck with ‘Falling for Christmas’, her first major role in more than a decade. The film in which she starred alongside Chord Overstreet, in which she plays a rich heiress who loses her memory in an accident and ends up in the care of a single father (with whom she obviously falls in love) managed to be a complete success on the streaming platform achieving more than 31.2 million of views in its first four days, thus guaranteeing a position of honor for Lohan on Netflix.

The film and, incidentally, the actress seemed to want get hold of all the possible clichés of romantic comedies: forced proximity, enemies to lovers, amnesia, unrequited love…

At the beginning of that year he starred, once again for Netflix, in ‘An Irish Wish’ (even getting best results than in her Christmas debut) where Lohan’s character discovers that the love of her life is going to marry her best friend, so she decides to put her feelings aside and go to Ireland as a bridesmaid.

Now the new Christmas arrives and with it a new success for the actress with ‘Our little secret‘(‘Our Little Secret’) where two resentful exes are forced to spend Christmas under the same roof after discovering that their current partners are brothers. The traditional and effective Christmas rom com reached the 32.4 million views on the opening weekend, thus becoming not only number 1, but also the most viewed title from November 23 to 29. “The Christmas spirit is in me,” the actress acknowledged Flaunt. In full Lohanaissance and with those numbers it is difficult to reject the title of Christmas Queen: “I don’t mean to, but I love Christmas and I love making movies.”

The point is that not only has this resurgence of the actress and her position as muse of Christmas been surprising, if not its new look. The actress currently looks an enviable appearance with a more defined face, far from artificial fillers and features that remind us of Lindsay Lohan from decades ago, without the ravages of her past addictions.

The tyranny of aesthetics is nothing new, especially for women and even more especially for women in the Hollywood industry. Celebrities like Lohan have experienced it firsthand, but what we can say is that we are facing a true aesthetic survivor. Day after day we meet with the rise of EITHERzempicSculptra, biostimulators, fillerslaser treatments, pulsed light treatments, microneedling… And although we should put less emphasis on women’s physical appearance, the truth is that Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Barbie Ferreira or Lizzo make numerous headlines due to the striking nature of its recent aesthetic change.

It’s hard to believe that Lohan’s new face It is exclusively the result of rest thanks to his new life withdrawal from the media spotlight in Dubai, but whether it is the work of plastic surgery, aesthetic treatments or new habits, what is clear is that the actress is the new literal and figurative face of Netflix.

We not only found the sample in your own projectsbut this entire Christmas campaign of the streaming platform seems to orbit around his figure. Within this Christmas initiative there are two premieres that are directly related to Lohan. ‘A snowman to melt'(‘Hot Frosty’) stars Lacey Chabert, his co-star in the cult work ‘Mean Girls’.

The Christmas movie genre is really A Thing.

In this same movie, where the term cringe falls too short, Lohan herself makes a delayed cameo. On the other hand, in 2025 Chad Michael Murray will once again share scenes with Lohan in ‘Put yourself in my place 2’, but this Christmas he shares the schedule on Netflix with ‘The Merry Gentlemen’, proving that this is not It’s about competing for awards.

The competition, even on the same platform, is quite non-existent for Lohan and it’s only fitting that this year’s Netflix Christmas lineup revolves around the actress. A Christmas comedy, with romance, light and with several sketches that we already foresee from minute zero do not have to be synonymous with other people’s shame, but with guilty pleasure in the heat of a cup of chocolate. And, perhaps most relevant, Lohan has found the key to continuing to maintain her title as queen of Christmas on Netflix.

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