Lindsay Lohan and her family are okay following the strikes on Dubai by Iran … TMZ has learned.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … the actress, her husband Bader Shammas and their son Luai are safe.

Lindsay has been living in Dubai since 2015 … and, she and Bader started seeing each other in 2020. They got engaged in 2021, married the following year and welcomed Luai the year after that.

Lohan — who recently appeared on the cover of Vogue Arabia — previously revealed she loves living in Dubai because of the “serenity and peace” she’s found away from the paparazzi while living in the city, located in the United Arab Emirates.

As you know … Iran has fired a series of retaliatory strikes after the United States and Israel attacked nuclear facilities and other key strategic sites in the country.

On Sunday, Iranian state media confirmed the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — the country Supreme Leader from 1981 until he died.

After years as a Hollywood teen queen living under a glaring spotlight, Lindsay Lohan built a quieter life in Dubai. Today, the star is fully back in control – and happier than ever

Lindsay Lohan is glowing. Green-juice-drinking, ridiculously-happy, settled-in-her-own-skin glowing. The 39-year-old just wrapped up her Vogue Arabia cover shoot, confidently stepping onto the Jumeirah Burj Al Arab helipad in new-season Loewe, Alaïa and others. “I was nervous to get up there, but it was beautiful,” she says about the 212metre-high platform. Yet it’s immediately obvious this is a star who has been in front of the camera for decades, as she carries herself with ease and self-possession.

Lohan moved to Dubai in 2014 and still calls the city home. It’s where she found peace after years of turbulence – and it’s also where she met her husband, Kuwaiti financier Bader Shammas. “We’re so good together because he’s so calm and I’m like a firecracker,” Lohan laughs. “We have a great balance.” The couple welcomed a son named Luai in July 2023 and are hoping to expand the family soon. “Being in Dubai is very grounding,” she shares. “I get to just spend time with my family. The city gives me a sense of being with what’s most important.” Another noted difference is the privacy and the lack of prying long lenses, especially around her child. “That’s a big breath of fresh air, having to not overthink everything you do every second.”

It’s a stark difference from her previous life as a pop culture phenomenon. After a breakout debut playing twins in 1998’s The Parent Trap, her status as the reigning teen queen of cinema remained unopposed with a string of hits – the 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis, followed by the one-two punch of Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Mean Girls the following year. In 2006, she graduated to adult romcoms, starring in Just My Luck with Chris Pine. She’s released music, owned a beach club in Greece and won multiple Teen Choice Awards. She was the face of Miu Miu’s spring/summer 2007 campaign, launched her own (now defunct) fashion line in 2008 and was even named artistic adviser of Ungaro for a single season in 2009.

She’s also weathered the toxic storm of being a woman in the 2000s, a time when daring to be fun-loving, beautiful and successful in the public eye meant you were torn down, ridiculed and shamed for every choice, every mistake, every Juicy Couture tracksuit. It was a time of intense and often misogynistic celebrity shaming, with gleeful paparazzi photos of the Y2K princesses splashed across the tabloids. Their downfalls were chased and celebrated – and none more so than Lohan’s. Barely 18 when Mean Girls demolished the box office, she was suddenly everywhere and being judged by everyone. Her notoriety was so ubiquitous that when she was court-ordered to wear an ankle bracelet, Karl Lagerfeld created miniature ankle pouches for Chanel’s spring/summer 2008 collection in a cheeky reference to her legal woes.

It’s only with the hindsight of 20 years that society is starting to reckon with the damage done to young women. Lohan is at peace about that time, now giving herself the grace that was so notably absent in the media back then. “It was all so overwhelming and consuming,” she shares. “I should have listened to my mom and dad and moved back to New York. But I was young and wanted to be in LA. And I didn’t know. So yeah, while a lot of it was fun, it was hard when I was young. It was a double-edged sword. Now I look back and wonder, ‘Why didn’t anyone just go and take me out of there, protect me more?’ You don’t know how to do that yourself when you’re a teenager.” The actress stepped away from the industry, first moving to London to do a play and then settling in Dubai. “I wasn’t having fun in the business anymore,” she shares. “I wasn’t finding roles I loved. It’s not a life I wanted to live, you know? It’s not a real life. It pushed me so far away that I moved to the other side of the world. And I’m so glad I followed my gut.”

She knew she would go back to acting when she started missing it again. This comeback broke the internet in 2022 when she appeared with a new style and refreshed appearance, setting social media alight. She’s coy about this transformation and at almost 40, is quick to credit a healthy diet, “lots of Pilates” and a focus on skincare for her fresh-faced looks. “I’m very skin-conscious,” Lohan says. “After I had my son, with hormones and everything, my skin changed. I had to start using really clean products and I pay attention to it. If I have time during the week, I will go for a facial or do a laser. I’m pro lasers. I think it’s good to take care of the collagen in your skin. And if it feels good, I say, ‘Why not?’ But I have a very basic routine. I use simple products. I don’t like to overdo it and add new things to my routine.” And with her charisma and knack for physical comedy, it was easy to pick up the romcom mantle for the Netflix trifecta – Falling for Christmas (2022), Irish Wish (2024) and Our Little Secret (2024). Lohan turns 40 this year and is sanguine about stepping into the decade when women in Hollywood tend to turn mysteriously invisible. She has formidable footsteps to follow, having shared the screen with heavyweights like Jamie Lee Curtis (twice, with last year’s sequel Freakier Friday also breaking $150 million at the box office), Meryl Streep in A Prairie Home Companion (2006) and Jane Fonda in Georgia Rule (2007). It’s not hard to imagine her career tracking the trajectory set by these uncompromisingly brilliant women. She was an executive producer on her last four films and is clearly on the cusp of fully stepping into her creative power. And what a sight that will be to behold – because try as they might, the tabloids could never deny Lohan’s scorching talent.

“With age comes a different kind of confidence,” she muses. “When I was younger, I wasn’t so comfortable saying how I felt about a character and being involved with the process of it. And I love that part now. I always felt like I had too many people around me and that I was being guided in a different direction. And now it feels good to steer my own ship.” As a young starlet, her agents would give her scripts and if she liked any, she would do it. These days, Lohan is talking to heads of studios, brainstorming ideas and looking for stories everywhere. “I love making happy films. I want people to go see my films and leave feeling great. But I’m at a point in my life where I want to stretch myself and test my boundaries with the roles I play. I’m looking for more dramatic characters with more depth.” First up is her TV debut in the upcoming series Count My Lies. Production is slated to begin in New York this month and the native New Yorker is happy to be shooting in her hometown. “I’m very selective with when and where I shoot because of my husband and son,” she explains. “I don’t want to hang around on set and waste time. I want to get in, do my job and get right home.” Based on the bestselling psychological thriller by Sophie Stava, Lohan plays Violet, a woman whose family is infiltrated by a compulsive liar, but who might be hiding a few secrets herself. Shailene Woodley and Kit Harrington also star in the show. “I’ve always wanted to play the kind of woman who you can’t really figure out,” she says. “Violet reminded me a little of Regina George in Mean Girls. I never got to play that kind of role, so I’m looking forward to it.”

Mean Girls, of course, is the film that launched a thousand memes and catapulted its stars – Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried – into the stratosphere. Such is its cultural stickiness that a musical premiered on Broadway in 2018, which was then adapted into another film in 2024. In the 2004 original, Lohan played the lead, Cady Heron, a girl who steps into the wilds of an American high school after years abroad. She remembers the set as “really fun”. “I was rhinestoning phones for people – I had a rhinestoning setup in my trailer and would glue them on in my break. We were just young and having fun; it was like a dream.” That dream is back – and this time on Lohan’s own terms. The noise has faded, the pace has changed and what remains is a woman fully in charge of her life, with joy at the core. “I always like to see the good in things,” she says. “It’s much nicer to live that way. Sometimes my husband is like, ‘You’re so positive.’ And I’m like, ‘I know, isn’t that great?’”

Article first appeared in Vogue

After years away from the spotlight, Lindsay Lohan found lasting love with Kuwaiti financier Bader Shammas in Dubai – a private relationship that led to marriage, motherhood, and the grounded family life she long sought

For Lindsay Lohan, love arrived quietly – far from the Hollywood spotlight that once defined her life. The actress met Kuwaiti financier Bader Shammas after relocating to Dubai, a city she has called home since 2014. What followed was a deeply private relationship that unfolded largely out of public view, culminating in marriage, motherhood and a grounded family life in the UAE.

Here, a complete timeline of Lindsay Lohan and Bader Shammas’ relationship – from their first meeting in Dubai to their life today as parents to son Luai.

Mid-2010s: meeting in Dubai

After years in the Hollywood spotlight, Lohan stepped away from the industry and settled in Dubai in 2014, seeking distance from paparazzi culture and a quieter pace of life. It was there, within the city’s close-knit international community, that she met Shammas, a finance professional of Kuwaiti heritage.

Dubai quickly became more than just a refuge – it was where she built the foundations of her adult life. “Being in Dubai is very grounding,” she has said. “I get to just spend time with my family. The city gives me a sense of being with what’s most important.”

2019–2020: A private relationship.

For several years, the couple kept their relationship almost entirely out of the public eye – a deliberate contrast to Lohan’s earlier romances, which had unfolded under intense tabloid scrutiny.

Privacy, she has explained, was one of the greatest gifts of living in the UAE. Away from intrusive paparazzi culture, she was able to nurture a serious partnership without constant speculation.

November 2021: Engagement announcement

Lohan confirmed her engagement to Shammas in November 2021, sharing a series of intimate photos and calling him “my love” and “my future.” The announcement marked the first time many fans became aware of the relationship at all – a testament to how successfully the couple had kept their life together private.

July 2022: Marriage

In July 2022, Lohan revealed that she and Shammas had married, referring to him as her “husband” in a birthday post. The wedding itself remained entirely private, consistent with the couple’s preference for intimacy over spectacle.

Their dynamic, Lohan says, is built on complementary personalities. “We’re so good together because he’s so calm and I’m like a firecracker,” she has shared in her Vogue Arabia March 2026 cover story. “We have a great balance.”

March–July 2023: Pregnancy and birth of son Luai

In March 2023, Lohan announced she was expecting the couple’s first child. Their son, Luai, was born in July 2023 in Dubai, further anchoring the actress’s connection to the city where her adult life had taken shape.

Motherhood, she has said, is inseparable from the sense of stability she has found in her marriage and environment. One of the greatest differences from her own childhood in the spotlight is the privacy her son enjoys. Living in Dubai means “a big breath of fresh air,” she has explained, “having to not overthink everything you do every second.”

2024–Present: Family life in Dubai

Today, Lohan and Shammas live a largely low-key family life in Dubai, balancing her renewed acting career with parenting and marriage. The actress is selective about filming schedules and locations, prioritizing time at home. “I’m very selective with when and where I shoot because of my husband and son,” she has said. “I want to get in, do my job and get right home.”

The couple are also looking ahead to expanding their family. Lohan has shared that they hope to have more children, underscoring how central family life has become to her sense of fulfillment.

In her first TV series starring role, Lindsay Lohan is set to headline and executive produce Count My Lies, a drama in development at Hulu. The project, based on the recently published novel by Sophie Stava, comes from former This Is Us executive producers/co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger as well as 20th Television where the duo and their The Walk-Up Company are under an overall deal.

In Count My Lies, written by Aptaker and Berger, when compulsive liar Sloane Caraway fibs her way into a nanny position for the gorgeous and charismatic Violet and Jay Lockhart, it seems she’s finally landed her dream job. But little does Sloane know, she’s just entered a household brimming with secrets that are about to explode — with potentially catastrophic consequences for all.

I hear Lohan is expected to play Violet. She executive produces alongside Aptaker, Berger and Scott Morgan of The Walk-Up Company. Stava is a producer. 20th Television, part of Disney TV Studios, is the studio.

This would mark Aptaker and Berger’s third series for the Disney streamer following Love, Victor and How I Met Your Father, both through 20th TV where they have been for 13 years.

Lohan has an even longer history at Disney. Her first five movies — theatrical and TV ones — were all at the company: The Parent Trap (1998), ABC’s Life-Size (2000), Disney Channel’s Get a Clue (2002), Freaky Friday (2003) and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (February 2004). Her biggest American TV series role to date was also at Disney, a four-episode arc on ABC’s Ugly Betty, which was produced by ABC Studios, now part of 20th Television.

She recently returned to the Walt Disney Studios for the upcoming Freakier Friday sequel, in theaters on August 8. Lohan, who starred in the Netflix 2025 holiday movie Our Little Secret, is repped by IAG, attorney Dave Feldman and Vision PR.

Count My Lies is Stava’s debut novel. Published by Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, on March 4, it was the GMA Book Club pick for March. She is repped by CAA and Elisabeth Weed at The Book Group. Aptaker and Berger served as executive producers and co-showrunners alongside creator Dan Fogelman on 20th Television’s hit NBC drama series This is Us. They also developed and executive produced the HIMYM spinoff series, How I Met Your Father, and were creators and executive producers of Love, Victor. Aptaker and Berger are repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Hansen Jacobson Teller.

Lindsay Lohan continues to discover more about motherhood with each passing day.

PEOPLE caught up with the actress, 38, at the Kering Founding Caring for Women dinner in New York City on Monday, Sept. 9, where she opened up about her son Luai Shammas, whom she shares with husband Bader Shammas.

Lohan has not disclosed Luai’s exact birthday, but her publicist confirmed to PEOPLE that he was born in 2023. The actress threw a lavish car-themed 1st birthday party for him on July 17, 2024.

As Luai enters his second year, PEOPLE asked Lohan what life milestones she was looking forward to.

“I think every day is a milestone,” the new mom excitedly replied. “Every day I’m blown away and I’m excited.”

As previously reported, Luai was born and is being raised in Dubai. Luai is an Arabic name meaning “shield or protector.”

“I guess you would say it happened organically,” Lohan told Allure of how she ended up in the United Arab Emirates. “Dubai gives me that space to have my own vision of what I need to do next.”

Lohan’s list of upcoming projects includes reprising her role as Anna Coleman in the sequel to her 2003 film Freaky Friday, appropriately titled Freakier Friday. She and costar Jamie Lee Curtis have been documenting filming the sequel, which is set for a 2025 release, on social media.

At August’s D23 event, Lohan told PEOPLE she’d want to switch places with her son if she could. “Just to see — because he is, so pure and just so happy, just to see life through his eyes, every day. He’s just this beautiful bundle of joy. I can’t think of anything else,” she explained.

Lohan can also be seen in a holiday movie for Netflix titled Our Little Secret. The film is set to debut on the streamer on November 27, 2024.

Steph Curry did something Saturday night he’s only done one time in his life — scored 60 points during a game, and Lindsay Lohan was the beneficiary of his achievement.

Steph’s Warriors lost to the Hawks in OT — 134-141, but Steph made a little history — he’s only the 10th player in NBA history to score 60 points at least twice.

As for Lindsay, she and her hubby were right there courtside in ATL watching the game. Afterward, Steph signed his jersey and gave it to Lindsay … the inscription reads, “Your Godparents love you! To Luai. Warriors” LiLo’s one-year-old kid’s name is Luai.

In case you didn’t know, Steph and Ayesha are indeed the godparents to Luai. As for the connection, Lindsay and Ayesha starred together in “Irish Wish,” which will be released March 15 on Netflix.

Sorry about the loss Steph, congrats and the 60 points, and way to score Luai.