While Lindsay Lohan tries to kick her drug habit with another stint in rehab, her mum Dina has been accused of trying to use her daughter’s falling star profile to boost her own career.
The 44-year-old mother-of-four is in talks to do a reality show titled Momager (from the buzzword for a mum who’s a manager), in which she’ll try to make her youngest kids, Ali, 13, and Dakota — known as Cody — who turns 11 this week, into stars like their big sister Lindsay.
But her plans have drawn outrage from industry insiders. “She totally messed up Lindsay by making her a ‘star’ and living vicariously through her — and now she’s going to do the same to the other two,” fumed one source. “Those kids should be in school having normal lives, and the life that Lindsay didn’t get to have.”
Dina, who has also come under fire for falsely claiming she acted on Broadway and in commercials, has been trying for a TV career for over a year. She was recently booked to appear on US show The View, until former host Rosie O’Donnell told her she was no longer welcome.
“Rosie made it clear on air that she was no fan of the elder Lohan’s mothering or, as it happens, non-mothering ways,” a source says.
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