Why Lindsay Lohan swapped Hollywood paparazzi for Dubai privacy and safety

Dubai: Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan, who has made Dubai her home since 2014, has zero regrets about swapping the flashbulbs of Hollywood for the desert sun.

“Far away from Hollywood, I lead a normal life,” she told hosts Kelly & Mark “There’s no worry of, ‘Oh, I can’t go to this place because someone will take a picture of my son.’ I feel very safe here.”

And it turns out, the UAE’s strict privacy laws are a celeb’s best friend. When the host asked if people just don’t take photos of her, Lindsay said: “It’s not legal. No, it is not! You cannot even take a picture of someone in a restaurant. You have to ask the person – which is a big difference.” Translation: try sneaking a shot of her over a shawarma and you’re the one in trouble.

Once the golden girl of Hollywood thanks to Mean Girls and The Parent Trap, Lindsay Lohan’s early fame came at a brutal cost. A turbulent stretch in the 2000s – marked by relentless paparazzi, publicized family feuds, legal run-ins, and stints in rehab – turned her into a tabloid fixture rather than the actress she set out to be.

After years of living under a microscope, Lohan chose to step away from that chaos entirely, trading the glare of Los Angeles for the relative calm and anonymity of Dubai.

Of course, not everything about her adopted city is perfect. Case in point: the pizza situation. When asked if she’s found good pizza in Dubai, Lohan didn’t mince words: “Not like New York. The first thing I do in New York is have a bagel and pizza.”

So naturally, she and her husband have already schemed about a side hustle: “My husband has talked about it a lot. We need to get New York pizza to Dubai,” she said, half-joking but also half-serious. Bagels and privacy – that’s the dream.

In short, Dubai gives Lindsay something Hollywood never could: peace, safety, and a (mostly) paparazzi-free life… now, if someone could just import a decent slice of pizza.