"Honey, looking almost like Karen Carpenter isn't that bad"
Hey mom, tell her the truth or STFU
"My sister, she was scared," the actress says. "My brother called me, crying."
Lohan's damage-controlling manager mom, Dina, is quoted as quickly adding, "She took it a little too far, maybe . . . but it wasn't as bad as it looked.
Lohan's confession that she battled bulimia was a far cry from what she had told another interviewer less than a year ago amid growing speculation over her rail-thin figure.
Then, a defiant Lohan insisted, "[The doctor] was like, 'Are you anorexic? Are you making yourself throw up? Are drugs involved?'
"And I was like, 'Are you saying this because you've read it in magazines? Because I don't!' " Lohan said at the time.
* She smothered boyfriend Valderrama to the point of breakup because "I didn't have anyone [else] to go to" with problems.
She openly talks of her attraction to older guys like Johnny Depp, whom she favors because "he's edgy and . . . dirty."
But all she will say about rumored latest love Jared Leto is, "We're great friends."
* She tried to cope with her emotional woes by shopping — once spending $100,000 in one day.
* Finding herself at the end of her rope while writing the song "Confessions of a Broken Heart," she "literally had a breakdown in [a] hotel room" that ended with her sobbing uncontrollably as she frantically called the Nassau County jail to try to talk to her con dad. She says she wound up reaching only her brother — and vowing to quit the biz until she straightened her life out.