2023 witnessed the spectacular return of two once famous child stars, Macaulay Culkin and Lindsay Lohan.

After a period of stumbling and being entangled in labor, the two were still able to return to normal life.

Macaulay Culkin ( born 1980)

At the peak of his career, Culkin was the most famous child actor in the world, was a close friend of the King of Pop Michael Jackson and was paid a huge salary of 4.5 million USD when participating in  Home Alone 2  in 12 year old. Culkin burst onto the scene with the work  Home Alone  in 1990. In this fun film, he played Kevin McCallister – who was forgotten by the whole family during a trip – leaving him alone at home and forced to Use your wits to deal with two evil thieves. The film was a huge success when it became the best-selling comedy of all time…

Macaulay Culkin is a typical example of the “early blooming, early fading” of Hollywood child stars.

Years later, Culkin’s career went downhill and he was last seen on the big screen in 2007 with the low-budget film  Sex and Breakfast . Alcohol, heroin and cigarettes (smoking up to 60 cigarettes a day) made Culkin look miserable and caused his lover of 8 years Mila Kunis to break up with him in 2010. Nowadays, people can see Culkin doing DJ at New York nightclubs or turn on the TV screen every Christmas Eve to rewatch his classic role as Kevin.

In adulthood, he struggled to find a role of a lifetime but failed. For 20 years, he only participated in small projects such as voicing the show Robot Chicken from 2005 to 2010, participating in the comedy film Sex and Breakfast in 2006, and publishing a semi-autobiographical novel. Junior test .

From 2011 to 2014, Macaulay often appeared so thin and weak that it sparked rumors that he was about to die. But life wasn’t too harsh for Macaulay when he was lucky enough to meet his current partner, actress Brenda Song.

Love at first sight and the resurrection of a dying star

Macaulay and Brenda met each other on a film set in Thailand. The actress is of the Mong ethnic group and is also a former Disney child star. 

Amidst the forest of child stars in the early 2000s, Brenda did not shine too brightly. She never reached the same heights as Macaulay. However, Brenda still has her own fan base thanks to her efforts at work and a clean, scandal-free life. 

The two had many things in common in their thoughts, quickly became close and then decided to officially date. At first, the media questioned their relationship. There are even opinions that Brenda and Macaulay’s love story will happen quickly.

Despite the doubts of public opinion, Macaulay and Brenda have been together for a long time and are very happy. The positive change of the 42-year-old actor made fans even more overwhelmed. Thanks to his girlfriend’s encouragement and positive influence, Macaulay is determined to quit smoking and improve his health. 

The actor shared with Esquire : “Drugs are like old friends to me. But in life, there will be times when you have to grow up and lose such friends.”

The 42-year-old star is determined to give up his old lifestyle and drugs, focus on working and enjoying life. Within just a year of meeting and falling in love with Brenda, Macaulay Culkin changed completely. He is faster, healthier and more youthful.

Macaulay Culkin enjoys the joy of fatherhood at the age of 40 (Photo: News).

Fans were even more excited when they heard that the actor and his girlfriend welcomed their first son in April 2021. The couple is engaged and a wedding is something they plan to do in the future.

Fans sometimes see Macaulay and his fiancee with their children on the street. The actor has now gained weight and no longer appears old and shabby. 

The love of his wife and children also helped Macaulay rediscover his passion for art. He returned to filming and received many positive responses from the public. In addition to some supporting roles, he is in the main cast and participated in 5 episodes of American Horror Story: Double Feature  (2021). 

At the end of last year, he also participated in a fashion show on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2022, he appeared in the project The Righteous Gemstones and voiced the animated series Entergalactic on Netflix.
Love helps Macaulay Culkin stay healthy and find joy in work (Photo: TheImageDirect).

Currently, Macaulay does not have the same reputation or record salary as he did 30 years ago. However, the 42-year-old star still feels happy because he has a home of his own and found the right path to walk. 

Brenda Song commented on her partner: “If I wasn’t with him, I wouldn’t be happy” and Macaulay was proud of his woman: “She is Asian, so I will have children Little Asians. They’ll be adorable. A bunch of Eurasian kids running around the house, that’s what I’m looking for.”

Macaulay Culkin was born into an incomplete and unloving family. All his life, he was always looking for someone who truly loved him. And luckily, the actor found in Brenda Song, an Asian girl with a shining smile and a kind heart.

Lindsay Lohan (born 1986)

“The girl with many tricks” can be considered a female version of Macaulay Culkin because Lilo also soon became famous and was later engulfed in scandals like the Home Alone star . Her talent is unquestionable, as she once played two roles alone as twin sisters Hallie – Annie in the comedy film The Parent Trap . From a “child star”, Lindsay became a “teen movie queen” with subsequent hits such as Freaky Friday (2003) or Mean Girls (2004).

Lindsay Lohan when she first entered the entertainment industry (left) and now.

However, becoming famous too early brought this red-haired girl into endless fun, and since then, people have only seen Lindsay’s name associated with scandals such as drug addiction, causing accidents, and controversies with her husband. family often steals things…

After a period of decline and decline, Lindsay Lohan went abroad to live. She went to live in different countries to create a quiet, balanced life for herself, completely giving up parties.

It took Lindsay a lot of time to balance her personal life, to give up her lifestyle of partying all night long, and stop slipping into alcohol and illegal substances. Abroad, people do not pay attention to her, she is not followed by paparazzi, her private life is not scrutinized…
Lohan also emphasized to Paper magazine: “I can do 99 good things, but if I only commit one bad thing, people will focus on that one thing” (Photo: New York Post).

In an interview with a women’s magazine in Dubai – Emirates Women , Lindsay Lohan said: “I’m still trying to forget all the past so I can move forward.

People have mentioned every detail of my mistakes, even the smallest ones, on news sites, but not all of them are true. In life, everyone has to go through experiences, but many things people have said about me are untrue.”

Lohan also emphasized to Paper magazine : “People often don’t like to talk about positive, good things. Negative things are more popular and once they are spread, negative things will stick with you.” forever. I really want to know why I’m always attacked. I can do 99 good things but if I only commit one bad thing, people will focus on that one thing.”

Lohan also confided to entertainment news site E Online that she was tired of being judged, so she decided to leave Hollywood: “When I no longer live in Hollywood, work takes up more time in my life. People don’t care who I am, which is very good for me.

Currently, I try to take care of myself to stay healthy. I also like to have fun, but I don’t go out all the time, get drunk and do crazy things anymore. Now I feel happier when I see other people partying happily.”

In the places she went, Lohan felt the pace of life seemed to slow down. “When I was living in Hollywood, I felt the pace of life was too fast and bustling. Now I no longer have to care about the news every day, I can really choose how to live my life.”
It was Lohan’s trips and new jobs that gave her a different image (Photo: New York Post).

In recent years, Lohan has spent a lot of time traveling, she has lived in Dubai, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia… and regularly updates about her trips on her Instagram account. more than 10 million followers.

It was Lohan’s trips and new jobs that made her have a different image than before, no longer an actress entangled in many controversies and scandals, but instead someone who travels a lot and experiences a lot. Thanks to that, invitations to collaborate with television shows came to her, and then film projects.

Talking about her messy past, Lohan shared: “There are things that if I could do it again, I would change, I put myself in bad situations, but I don’t regret anything that happened.” Because I wouldn’t be who I am today if I didn’t learn from what happened in the past.”