Lindsay Lohan on new Christmas movie, life in Dubai with husband and son

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now that she’s a mom.“I’m very nerdy when it comes to wrapping presents,” admits Lohan, via Zoom from her home in Dubai. “I love the art of wrapping.

I will wrap any of my friends’ presents — just give it to me. I’ll help.” This year, though, there’s an extra incentive to go all out. “For my son, I want to do fun ones,” she says. “If he sees dinosaur wrapping paper, he gets excited.

So that’s what’s fun for me — wrapping presents and putting up the tree. And filming every moment of it!” She’ll even bake brownies to make a trail of “dirt” on the floor to accompany the traditional plate of cookies for Santa.For Lohan, celebrating her son’s second Christmas with financier husband Bader Shammas is a time to bask in the life she’s been cultivating over the past several years.

She and Shammas got together in 2020, married in 2022 and welcomed their first child, Luai, last July. Fresh-faced in a simple oatmeal-colored tee, with that iconic red hair pulled into a ponytail, Lohan can’t stop smiling as she tells me about the changes that have upended her life in the best way. “It’s no longer about you, really,” she says. “For me, everything is about my child and my family and my household, and making sure that my work is in line with what’s going to work for everyone else.” This year, she fervently hopes to stay home in Dubai for the holidays. “I would like to be settled here, because then I can do everything for the baby.”Lohan has been up since 6:45 a.m.; that’s when she makes herself some tea, takes a bit of time to write in her journal and tinkers with toddler food. “I came up with new recipes this morning,” she says. “I’m trying this different kind of mashed potatoes and carrots.”When she’s not nerding out over holidays and.