Struggling at work and being less productive could be a warning sign of early-onset dementia more than a decade before a diagnosis is made, a study suggests.

Early-onset dementia is when the debilitating disease strikes before 65, causing a premature deterioration of a patient’s emotional and professional lives. Often, it has no apparent cause. 

Younger patients typically wait years for a diagnosis because the disease is not normally searched for in those younger than 60. 

But now, researchers in Finland say the condition could be detected up to 15 years earlier by tracking work performance.

In a study of nearly 800 early-onset dementia patients and 7,000 healthy individuals, researchers found those who had early-onset dementia earned $13,800 less per year on average than others from a decade-and-a-half before their diagnosis, which they said was due to them being less productive.

Overall, researchers estimated that patients lost about $86,000 in wages over the course of the 12-year study due to the condition.

Dr Eino Solje, a neurologist who led the research, said: ‘Early-onset dementia affects people during their most productive years and is associated with a decreased ability to work, increased unemployment and leaving jobs sooner than planned.

‘These changes can reduce household income and contribute to broader economic impact.

‘Our study found an association between reduced work productivity and early-onset dementia up to 15 years before diagnosis.’

He added: ‘These findings may partly be explained by delays in diagnosis, which can prolong the period of unrecognized symptoms, and they underscore the harmful, long-term socioeconomic impact of early-onset dementia.’

Many early-onset dementia patients say their symptoms begin at work. Warning signs include struggling to remember appointments or how to do something they have done for a long time before. Some also struggle to concentrate or follow conversations.

In later stages, patients also suffer from severe mood swings, deepening confusion about time, place and life events and suspicion of family or friends.

There is no cure for the disease, but medications are available that may help to slow its progression.

Everyone experiences dementia differently. Use this checklist to help you make a note of your symptoms before you talk to your GP.

About 200,000 Americans suffer from early-onset dementia, estimates suggest, but that number is rising. Latest health insurance data shows claims for the condition rose 200 percent between 2013 and 2017.

In the study, published in the journal Neurology, researchers tracked 793 early-onset dementia patients for 12 years before their diagnosis.

Overall, 421 patients were struggling with Alzheimer’s disease, while 179 had frontotemporal dementia and nearly 200 others had other forms of dementia, including vascular dementia. 

They were matched to 7,000 healthy individuals with a similar age, background and wages over the same period. In the analysis, data was adjusted for factors such as salaries and medical conditions, which can affect earnings.

Broken down by dementia type, researchers found those suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s had lower earnings compared to healthy peers six years before their diagnosis. 

Those with frontotemporal dementia had lower earnings from 11 years before their diagnosis.

The study did not conclusively prove that lower wages compared to peers show someone has dementia, only that this is a potential warning sign. Other factors may also be behind the results.

It isn’t clear what causes early-onset dementia, but scientists say about one in ten people have genes that raise their risk. Those with relatives who have the disease are at a higher risk.

Other factors such as a brain injury from an early stroke or heavy alcohol use may also raise someone’s risk of the disease.

The disease is diagnosed by doctors who assess patients for warning signs of the disease. 

Some patients do continue to work for years after a diagnosis, doctors say, but others stop. 

Those with early-onset dementia live for about nine years after their diagnosis. 

Wales scrum coach Paul James has challenged Ben Warren to build on his impressive cameo appearance in the victory over Fiji.

The Ospreys tighthead scrummaged well upon entering the fray against Fiji and will be an important player for Wales against Argentina in Santa Fe this Saturday.

“I’ve been fortunate to see Ben come through down at the Ospreys,” said James.

“He’s young and he brings loads of energy.

“He’s scrummaged really well in training and that’s why he had his opportunity last weekend.

“I thought once he came on against Fiji he was class. He got go forward on the tighthead side so hopefully if he gets an opportunity again it’ll be good to see him back it up.”

And James is hopeful Wales can get more success at the scrum against the Pumas.

“In fairness to our boys they are loving scrummaging at the moment. We are in a good place,” he added. “All of the boys can’t wait for the challenge.

“After their loss against Scotland last week we know Argentina are going to come out really hard and fast.

“We are just ready for the challenge. What I have said to our boys is don’t try to manufacture anything on your own. You stick to our process.

“You scrummage as an eight and you don’t scrummage individually.

“That’s the big message to our boys.”

The death of the Iranian novelist and feminist writer at the age of 80 marks the loss of one of the most courageous and original voices in modern Persian literature. For more than five decades, Parsipur wrote women into spaces from which they had often been excluded: history, politics, spirituality and even storytelling.

Imprisoned under both the shah and the Islamic Republic, censored, banned and eventually exiled, she remained committed to a simple but radical idea: women deserve to be the authors of their own lives.

Born in Tehran in 1946, Parsipur entered Iranian literature at a time when female writers occupied only a small corner of the literary landscape. After studying sociology at the University of Tehran in the late 1960s, she emerged as part of a generation of female writers who transformed the modern Persian literary landscape.

After the pioneering work of academic and writer Simin Daneshvar, Parsipur came to be recognised as a distinctive voice in a wave of female authors who expanded the possibilities of modern Persian fiction. After publishing short stories and novellas throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Parsipur published The Dog and the Long Winter in 1976, further establishing a literary career that would eventually make her one of the most influential voices in modern Persian literature.

Parsipur’s commitment to speaking openly about power and injustice came at a heavy personal cost.

In the 1970s, while working as a producer and editor for Iranian National Television, she resigned in protest after the execution of two poets by Savak, the shah’s secret police. Her opposition to repression led to her first imprisonment.

The 1979 Revolution did not bring greater freedom to Parispur. After returning to Iran from France, where she had been studying Chinese language and civilisation, she was arrested again and spent four years and seven months in prison during the 1980s.

Rather than silencing her, those years deepened her determination to write. Soon after her release, she published Touba and the Meaning of Night, the novel that brought her widespread recognition among Iranian readers. She later documented her experiences of incarceration in Prison Memoir and Kissing the Sword). International recognition followed, including in 1994 the Lillian Hellman–Dashiell Hammett Award for writers persecuted for exercising their freedom of expression.

What distinguishes Parsipur from many political writers is that she never reduced literature to ideology. Instead, she used imagination to expose systems of power. Her novels are filled with women searching, not simply for rights or equality, but for meaning, autonomy and selfhood.

In Touba and the Meaning of Night, Parsipur followed a woman’s search for spiritual meaning against the backdrop of 20th-century Iran’s political upheavals, placing female experience at the centre of the nation’s history. Women Without Men further developed this through imagining entirely new possibilities for women’s lives. First published in 1989 and later banned in Iran because of its frank engagement with female sexuality and social taboos, Women Without Men went on to become Parsipur’s most widely read and celebrated work.

Part fable and part political allegory, the novella follows five women searching for freedom beyond the limits imposed by family, convention and authority. Through magical and often surreal encounters – including a woman who becomes a tree – the novel envisions new worlds of possibility for women.

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Censorship only amplified the novel’s impact. Banned in Iran and circulated informally for years, Women Without Men became an underground classic.

In March 2026, its first full English-language translation introduced Parsipur to a new international readership and earned a place on the International Booker prize longlist. More than three decades after its original publication, the novel’s questions about women’s freedom remained as urgent as ever.

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Parsipur spent a lifetime asking what might happen if women stopped seeking permission to be free.

In 1994, Parsipur left Iran for California. Exile gave her safety, but it never gave her distance. Iran remained the backdrop to her writing, her politics and her hopes for the future, even after decades abroad.

Even in her final public interventions, Parsipur remained fiercely independent. During the recent military conflict involving Iran, she opposed foreign military intervention, arguing that “freedom cannot be given to Iran from outside” and that “the people of Iran themselves must win their own freedom”. Her position was entirely consistent with a life spent resisting all forms of domination – whether exercised by monarchs, religious authorities or foreign powers.

Shahrnush Parsipur leaves behind a body of work that transformed Persian literature, but also something less tangible and perhaps more lasting: a powerful example of how to speak, write and live without surrendering to fear.

Throughout her life, Parsipur refused to accept the limits imposed upon her – as a writer, as a woman or as a citizen. That refusal became the defining force of both her life and her work.

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Super Typhoon Bavi, one of the most powerful storms in years, is bearing down on Taiwan and China‘s eastern coast as the country battles some of its worst flooding in recent memory, with 39 people dead in separate weather disasters across multiple provinces.

Bavi, currently measuring nearly 1,000km at its widest point – roughly the width of France – is forecast to skirt northern Taiwan before making landfall in China‘s eastern Fujian province on Saturday evening, according to China’s National Meteorological Centre.

Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te urged people to prepare emergency supplies, sharing a video about how to assemble a grab bag that can sustain life for three days.

The island has suspended ferry services to outlying islands, closed tourist attractions, and put traffic restrictions in place.

If Bavi maintains its forecast intensity, it will become the most powerful typhoon to strike this region since Super Typhoon Kong-rey in 2024, according to AccuWeather. It would also be the largest storm by size to hit Taiwan since 1987, Jason Chang, a forecaster with the Central Weather Administration, told Reuters, adding that storms of this size had been “fairly rare in recent years”.

Winds eased overnight to just under 200km per hour but the storm remained exceptionally dangerous.

“Some loss of wind intensity is anticipated starting Thursday, but Bavi will remain a dangerous storm as it impacts Taiwan and eastern China later Friday into Monday,” Jason Nicholls, international forecasting expert for AccuWeather, said.

Bavi previously caused catastrophic damage on the US island of Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands, where its eyewall made a direct hit last Monday with maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour, leaving most of the island’s 1,500 residents without power and communications. It also brought more than 20 inches of rain to Guam.

Scientists said the storm had been turbocharged by exceptionally warm ocean water. Sea surface temperatures across the western Pacific are 2-3C above average for this time of year and up to 4C above average along the coasts of China, Taiwan and Japan.

Bavi rapidly intensified from a modest tropical system into a category five equivalent in less than 48 hours as it drew energy from ocean water temperatures of 29-32C.

“We should pay much attention to Bavi as it has spent a long time intensifying over the open Pacific, extracting energy from the warm ocean and accumulating large amounts of moisture,” said Xiangbo Feng, a research scientist in tropical cyclones at Imperial College London. “When it makes landfall or gets close to coastal regions, the damage could be catastrophic.”

Taiwan’s mountainous terrain means rainfall may reach up to 1,000mm within two days, more than London receives in a year and a half. Officials in Taipei warned of wind gusts of up to 149km per hour and 400mm of accumulated rainfall in the capital alone during the peak of the storm.

Landslide-prone routes, including the Suhua and Beiyi highways, are under close monitoring. Japan’s meteorological agency separately urged residents of Okinawa to remain on high alert through Friday and Saturday for violent winds, landslides, flooding, and storm surges.

Bavi is approaching just when China is reeling from its worst flooding in years. A landslide triggered by heavy rain killed at least 21 people in the western province of Gansu this week, while Typhoon Maysak, the country’s first of the year, killed at least six in the southern region of Guangxi, burst a reservoir dam and forced the evacuation of 480,000 people.

Thunderstorms and gale-force winds killed another 11 people and injured more than 330 in the central province of Hubei, and damaged nearly 5,000 homes.

China officially started its annual flood season on 1 July. Meteorologists warn the Asian country faces “complex” disaster prevention challenges this year due to the combined effects of global warming and the expected emergence of El Niño, which may increase temperatures and fuel frequent and intense typhoons.

Arthur Fery made history at Wimbledon by becoming only the second wildcard to reach the men’s semi-finals

BBC Wimbledon audiences expressed their frustration shortly after Arthur Fery‘s landmark quarter-final triumph.

The 23-year-old extended his remarkable journey at this year’s tournament, progressing to the semi-finals after an impressive straight-sets defeat of Flavio Cobolli on Centre Court.

Fery, who entered the competition ranked 114th globally, became just the second wildcard to reach the men’s semi-final at Wimbledon since Goran Ivanisevic’s victory in 2001.

Following his triumph, Fery said on court: “It seems to get better and better every match. No, I just can’t believe it. It’s incredible playing on Centre Court for the second time, second win, I can’t believe it.

“I played Flavio earlier this year in Australia and I beat him. That was a boost of confidence and I knew that I could do it, even though it’s my first time in the quarter-finals. He’s done it before in a Grand Slam, but that gave me a little boost of confidence. I just kept going. I was very nervous beforehand, but I kept going until the finish line,” reports the Express.

The British player continued: “I’m definitely not [calm] on the inside! That last game, I felt emotions that I hadn’t experienced before in my life. I think it’s the same up there. It’s unbelievable to share it with those guys [gestures to his team]. It’s a great bunch of guys. I’m so happy.”

However, a number of BBC viewers expressed their displeasure shortly after Fery’s victory. Several tennis fans had been eagerly anticipating the match highlights, having missed the live coverage due to work commitments.

But they were left waiting until 11.05pm for Today at Wimbledon to air on BBC Two, despite live tennis having concluded at 7pm.

“Why are Wimbledon tennis highlights on after 11pm tonight on BBC2? We have a British wildcard through to the semifinals and some of us have been at work all day!” one disgruntled viewer posted on X (formerly Twitter).

Another commented: “Really narked me off, came in hoping to watch it & nothing,” while a third remarked: “Yes, there was nothing on after 8pm about Wimbledon. Strange.”

A further viewer wrote: “The Today at Wimbledon show has been reduced to a nothing show. It’s now nothing more than a reel of highlights with a voice but zero analysis.”

A fifth fan echoed this frustration, stating: “As well as [the] fact it’s on 11pm, No iplayer where we live, the Highlights show is awful compared to the old show. Old show had great interviews with players, commentary from hosts, this version is Boring in comparison. Keep chopping & changing too fast within match highlights.”

Adding to the discontent, some viewers were annoyed that Fery’s match wasn’t broadcast first on the programme, with both women’s quarter-finals being shown ahead of it instead.

“Has the BBC lost all sense of news and editorial values. Watching the Wimbledon highlights on catch-up and the Fery match is third on the roster. He’s British and he’s in the semi-finals FFS,” a frustrated viewer wrote.

The men’s semi-finals are scheduled for Friday (July 10). Fery is set to face number two seed Alexander Zverev, while top seed Jannik Sinner prepares for another encounter with 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic.

Wimbledon coverage is broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two, and can be streamed via BBC iPlayer

Signs stating “Secure our borders” and “End the threat of radical Islam” have also been placed on the fire

A replica of a mosque has been placed on top of a loyalist bonfire pyre in Co Tyrone.

The model was visible on top of the pyre in Moygashel on Thursday.

Signs stating “Secure our borders” and “End the threat of radical Islam” have also been placed on the fire which is made up of pallets and which is due to be set alight on Friday night.

The same bonfire has attracted controversy in previous years.

Last year there was condemnation after effigies of migrants in a boat were burned on the bonfire in Moygashel.

Amensty International has called for police action in response to the display.

Patrick Corrigan of Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland Director, said: “This vile display is a blatant attempt to stir up anti-Muslim hatred and intimidate local families. It must be met with a decisive response by the police.

“The placing of an effigy of a mosque on top of a bonfire amounts to incitement to hatred directed at real people who live, work and raise families in Northern Ireland.

“It is a crime under Northern Ireland law to distribute materials that are intended or likely to stir up racial or religious hatred or arouse fear.

“The police must investigate this as a potential crime, identify and hold to account those responsible, and ensure this material is swiftly removed before it can be used to incite further hatred and violence.”

Eleventh night bonfires will be lit across Northern Ireland on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings ahead of the Orange Order ’s July 12 parades, which are taking place on Monday.

While most of the bonfires pass off without incident, several have become the focus of contention due to the placing of flags, effigies and election posters on the structures before they are ignited.

Last month in Moygashel, police removed a banner from a children’s playpark, stating it was being treated as a hate crime.

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When Quenda joined Chelsea, he was accompanied by his father, mother, sisters, friends, agents and his godfather Basaula Lemba, a former top-flight footballer in Portugal who also won 10 caps for Zaire.

Lemba played an important role in Quenda’s early development before Benfica brought him into their academy system in 2017.

Sporting and Porto had also been tracking him at the time, according to former youth coach Fabio Roque.

“We saw him as an under-10 player playing against us for Benfica,” Roque told BBC Sport.

“We knew from our scouting team that he was a good player and had tracked his progress through the Portuguese Football Federation website.

“He was incredible and different. His discipline was not always great and he was still raw, but his attitude was excellent. He was demanding of himself, confident, unpredictable, brave and had a great relationship with the ball.”

There was a “non-aggression pact” between Portugal’s three biggest clubs – Benfica, Sporting and Porto – but after Quenda scored against Sporting in a key match for Benfica, he eventually made what Roque described as a “natural” move to Sporting.

From 2019, when he switched academies, the torment started to work the other way.

“I remember one match against Benfica – a very important game,” Roque said.

“It was a difficult week before Christmas. We’d just suffered a heavy defeat and our captain got injured.

“Emotions were high. Fifteen minutes into the match we had a player sent off. We had to adapt, but Geovany and the rest of the team kept competing, held on at 0-0 and showed the mentality they had.

“Then I remember walking towards the dressing room at half-time and Geovany put his hand on my shoulder and said: ‘It’s OK, we’re going to win.’

“That moment gave us all confidence. And we did win. From a corner, the ball broke to Geovany and he calmly placed it into the net.

“It was a moment of personality and belief. It showed who Geovany really is. In that moment, I thought: ‘This guy is special.’”

Eventually, Quenda progressed into the under-23s under Tiago Teixeira.

“Everyone talked about him. Everyone said he was one of the most talented players in the academy,” Teixeira told BBC Sport.

“We wanted him to develop step by step, but he could have made his debut sooner.

“I remember one training session when we were practising set-pieces and free-kicks. We joked that he could not score from a free-kick.

“Then he scored four or five in a row, smiled and said: ‘OK, finished for me.’”

Although Quenda joins a canon of great Sporting wingers, including Ronaldo, Luis Figo and Nani, his former coach believes he most closely resembles Arsenal and England forward Bukayo Saka.

“It’s his explosiveness, his ability to play inside, protect the ball, his unpredictability and his creativity,” Roque said.

“Defensively, Geovany might even be stronger than Saka at this stage. Bukayo is, of course, already performing consistently in a highly competitive league. But his running, crossing and final pass remind me a lot of Saka.”

Roque added: “He’s one of the most impressive players I’ve seen. Among players born in 2007, he is one of the best in the world, alongside Lamine Yamal and Estevao. My expectations are very high, but I know it is a long career.”

By the age of 16, Quenda was training with Ruben Amorim’s first-team squad before the coach left Sporting for Manchester United, and he soon began breaking records.

The first came when he scored 24 minutes into his debut against Porto, becoming the youngest player to score in the Portuguese Super Cup.

He later became Sporting’s youngest player to start and score in the Champions League, surpassed Ronaldo’s record as the youngest goalscorer in Liga Portugal and established himself as a first-team regular at the age of 17.

“Saka is more direct and faster,” Teixeira added. “But I think Quenda may be better when playing inside. It is clear he is a once-in-a-decade talent for an academy.”

Lindsay Lohan and her father Michael reunited for her 40th birthday celebration bash in the Hamptons.

The Mean Girls star’s father, 66, could be seen in an Instagram Stories post as she enjoyed a celebration for the milestone at the Le Bilboquet restaurant based in Sag Harbor, New York.

Lindsay reposted the clip from her friend Ryan Roth to more than 16 million Instagram followers, as she was seen seated in front of her birthday cake with Michael and others filming the festive moment. 

Along with her father, Lindsay’s mother Dina, 63, and siblings Michael Jr., 38, Ali, 32, and Dakota, 30, were in attendance at the gathering, Page Six reported, as was her husband Bader Shammas, 40, who she resides with in Dubai with their son. 

Lindsay told partygoers at the bash, ‘I have known from my past and where I am today. So many chapters of my life and all the things I have gone through and how far I have come.

‘Some of you have known me since I was a little girl and some have become lifelong friends along the way. Every one of you has helped shape the person that I am today.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Lindsay for further comment on the story. 

The Mean Girls star’s father, 66, could be seen in an Instagram Stories post as she enjoyed a celebration for the milestone at the Le Bilboquet restaurant based in Sag Harbor, New York 

Among the other notable names in attendance at the Hamptons bash, sources told the outlet, included NBA icon Steph Curry and wife Ayesha, who struck up a friendship in Dubai through mutual friend, chef Michael Mina.

The party began with an outdoor cocktail reception prior to venturing indoors for a dinner, where the cake was later presented, sources told the outlet.

Lindsay and her father have dealt with ups and downs over the years, as they have been estranged for extended periods prior to their recent reconciliation.

Michael Lohan Sr.’s appearance at the birthday bash comes about three months after he suffered a series of health scares that landed him in the hospital on multiple occasions.

Michael had an artery blockage, which led to him having an angioplasty to insert a stent in his heart amid the serious situation, he told TMZ in May.

He said that after weeks of dealing with fatigue and shallow breathing, doctors detected the blockage and let him know he had to undergo surgery to correct the issue.

Following his discharge, Michael told the outlet that he passed out at his home and had to go back in for medical treatment.

Michael Sr. has been in the headlines in recent years amid a series of incidents with his estranged wife Kate Major, who filed for divorce from him in 2018. They are parents to sons Landon and Logan.

In April, Major had been taken into custody in Texas, in connection with allegations she threw a knife in Michael Sr.’s direction. It was one in a number of arrests she has piled up in the past 15 years, leading to a protective order Michael Sr. obtained against her following the recent arrest.

Lindsay reposted the clip from her friend Ryan Roth, as she was seen seated in front of her birthday cake with Michael, 66, and others filming the moment 

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Lindsay and her father have dealt with ups and downs over the years, as they have been estranged for extended periods prior to their recent reconciliation. Pictured 2003 with Dina Lohan 

Michael and daughter Lindsay Lohan were seen in a selfie he posted online in 2024 

Lindsay previously acknowledged her birthday as she took to Instagram Thursday to share a note with her followers as she hinted at her troubled past and the ‘mistakes’ she has made. 

The movie actress said in her post that she was grateful for the ‘lessons’ she has learned in life and also thanked the ‘people who’ve stood beside me.’

Her note began with ‘forty’ as she looked back on her four decades: ‘Grateful for every chapter that brought me here. For the lessons, the laughter, the love, the unexpected turns, and the people who’ve stood beside me through it all.

‘This next decade feels different. More grounded. More intentional. More joyful. Here’s to family, friendship, new beginnings, and making the most beautiful memories yet. Thank you for all the birthday love.’

Lohan also said she believes ‘your 30s are [when] things start clicking.’

Asked what advice she has for people entering their 30s, Lohan told People: ‘I’d say that this decade is yours.

‘I think there’s so much pressure around what you’re supposed to have to figure out by a certain age, but I don’t think that’s necessarily the right way to look at it. Your 30s are [when] things start clicking, and you should also take seriously how you want to set yourself up for your future.’

The Dubai resident described turning 35 as another ‘wake-up call moment.’

The actress reflected: ‘I don’t know that I’d say it’s between 30 and 40. For me, it can also be 35 and 40 … I think 35 is another milestone in a way because then you’re almost 40. You’re closer. So it’s like another wake-up call moment.’

The Mean Girls star took to Instagram to share a note with her followers as she hinted at her troubled past

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The movie actress said in her post that she was grateful for the ‘lessons’ she has learned in life

‘Grateful for every chapter that brought me here. For the lessons, the laughter, the love, the unexpected turns, and the people who’ve stood beside me through it all,’ she wrote

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Lindsay Lohan turned 40 years old on Thursday. Seen in July 2025

Lohan – who married Shammas in 2022 – has learned the importance of appreciating her success and her family.

Asked what she’s learned over the last decade, Lindsay replied: ‘The value of time. That time is precious, and sometimes we forget time goes by so quickly that we should really enjoy every moment to its fullest.’

Lohan previously explained that while she’s a ‘very positive person’, she’s also learned to temper her enthusiasm. The actress admits that she’s learned an important life lesson thanks to her husband.

The Parent Trap star told People: ‘I’m a very positive person so I always expect everything to go the way it’s supposed to go.

‘My husband has taught me, “You have to be prepared for other things, so you don’t get disappointed. If this doesn’t go that way, then it’s okay.”‘

Lohan added, ‘And that’s really important to me because I never really understood the value of that.

‘You are your own vessel. If you don’t nurture yourself, anything can distract you in a second. Anything can take a turn.’

Lohan’s career has also been on an upswing as she starred in two hit Christmas movies which led to a Freaky Friday sequel. She is now filming the movie Count My Lies with Shailene Woodley.