For anyone who’s wondering, here’s the lowdown on Lohan

Lindsay Lohan seems like a typical 18-year-old. She’s really concerned with boys and her hair, she’s fidgety and giggly, and she just bought these fuzzy purple boots from a Marc Jacobs sale.

But this seemingly typical teen, who first got noticed as a child playing those famous twins in “The Parent Trap” remake, has a full-time job. The freckled redhead has made herself a household name with films including “Freaky Friday” and “Mean Girls.”

And now she’s put out an album, “Speak.”

The songs are hyper-produced and sound a lot like the other girls her age coming out with CDs – Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson, to name a couple.

And this latest venture could put Lohan at risk for further overexposure. She’s become a regular in the gossip columns for her tiff with Duff and a public breakup with “That ‘70s Show” actor Wilmer Valderrama.

Lohan, though, says she is only trying to work hard and have fun, too.

Q. Why do an album?

A. I’ve been singing since I was a little kid. I have been taking voice lessons since I was 6 or 7 years old. I used to put on shows for my Barbie dolls singing Madonna or Paula Abdul. But I started acting first, so it made more sense to just go with that.

Q. Is it hard for you to find some middle ground because little girls look up to you and guys think you’re hot?

A. Girls my age dress so much raunchier than I’d ever imagine myself dressing. And I understand that I’m a role model though, and I have to look out for that. I have a 10-year-old sister, too. But you also want to be appealing to guys and stuff, that’s just something girls feel.

Q. Do you feel disconnected from people your age?

A. In some ways, because my friends are in college now and they’re going to frat parties and drinking beer. If I go out in New York or something with my friends, I’ll have a drink, I’m not going to lie. But my friends in college are out getting wasted and I don’t really have a desire to do that. I have sort of grown past it because I have a full-time job and responsibilities.

Q. Do you want to go to school?

A. People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I’d be taking a step back or something.

Q. One song on your album is about not having privacy from the media. But how can you complain when you’re in show business and you know that’s how it is?

A. You can’t really complain because it’s what you have to accept is going to happen when you’re in the spotlight. … At the same time, it’s hard when you’re just waking up and you’re going out to get your mail and there are people there.

Q. So if you could do one thing in public if you would not be recognized, what would you do?

A. I would go and do everything that the tabloids say Lindsay Lohan does, if they thought I was someone else. I would go and do everything they say Lindsay Lohan does and have them focus on someone else and have the attention taken off of me completely.

The birthday bunch

Actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke is 79. Actor Christopher Plummer is 75. Movie producer Richard Zanuck is 70. Singer John Davidson is 63. Singer Ted Nugent is 56. Actress Wendie Malick (“Just Shoot Me”) is 54. Actor Steve Buscemi is 47. Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx is 37. Musician Tom DeLonge (blink-182) is 29.