What is up you guys, it’s Sussan Mourad with Clevver News and I know I’m not alone when I
say the movie Mean Girls is the gift that keeps on giving. So while we reminisce on
one of pop-culture’s most iconic films, let's take a look at where the film’s stars are today!
“That’s so fetch!” “Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s not going to happen.”)
If you don’t know that reference, it’s from the 2000s, classic, high school comedy Mean Girls
starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried. This cult-classic
basically defined the 2000s with their endless witty one-liners that nobody can forget, like
“On Wednesdays, we wear pink” and “I’m not a regular mom, I’m a cool mom!”
Can you believe this movie debuted 17 years ago? Let’s take a trip down
memory lane and see what our favorite stars from Mean Girls are up to today!
First things first, we have to congratulate Johnathan Bennett,
who played Aaron Samuels, for getting engaged recently!
“Right, well… Grool” In a People Magazine exclusive interview,
Jonathan admitted to having “ugly cried the ugliest cry anyone has ever cried”
when his fiance, James Vaughn dropped down to one knee and proposed to him
with a special song he wrote and sang specifically for that moment.
In addition to getting engaged, Jonathan has had quite the career post-Mean Girls. His resume
includes guest starring on numerous television shows, being a contestant on season 19 of Dancing
with the Stars, hosting The Food Network’s Cake Wars, Cupcake Wars, and Halloween Wars,
and starring in Hallmark’s first LGBTQ holiday movie, The Christmas House. That’s quite the list!
Now, let’s move onto the main core of Mean Girls, the Plastics.
*car horn* “Get in loser, we’re going shopping” As we all know, Lindsay Lohan was already a
mega-star before Mean Girls, so it’s not surprising that she stayed in the
spotlight once the cameras stopped rolling. She starred in Disney’s Herbie Fully Loaded in 2005,
and then alongside a young Chris Pine in Just My Luck in 2006, a movie which
might have foreshadowed some of Lindsay’s ups and downs which came in the following years.
“Let’s just say, I know what it’s like to be S.O.L.” “What makes you
think I’m S.O.L.?” *points to ‘wet paint’ sign* “Ugh”
Lindsay’s been quite the globetrotter. She went from living abroad in London & Greece,
to quarantining in Dubai. Along her travel journey, she even had a reality show called
Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club on MTV that followed her as she launched the Lohan
Beach House in Mykonos. What’s next for Lohan? A potential Lindsay Lohan vs. Paris Hilton movie
based on their infamous feud in the mid 2000s, according to Vice.
Also, we can’t NOT mention her iconic and viral dance in Mykonos!
Next up we have the queen bee herself, Regina George. Since Mean Girls, Rachel McAdams has
not stopped working! And gratefully so because there’s no role she can’t absolutely become!
Rachel McAdams has been in everything from the iconic The Notebook,
to The Vow, to Game Night and Eurovision. She’s now an Oscar-nominated actress for her role in
Spotlight, but her real badge of honor stems from being a mom to her two-year-old son with
boyfriend Jamie Linden. Oh, and did I mention baby number two is coming soon? You go, mama!
She’s not a regular mom, she’s a cool mom. “That one there, that’s Karen Smith.
She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet. *football hits Karen in the chest*
It’s pretty ironic how airy Karen Smith was in Mean Girls, because Amanda Seyfriend has
become one of the most brilliant actresses of our generation. She’s kept busy in Hollywood,
with a long run on Big Love, bringing down the house in the Mamma Mia! movies with Meryl Streep,
and earning herself a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her role in Les Misérables.
Like Rachel, Amanda is now a cool mom, raising a son and daughter with her husband, Thomas Sadoski.
“I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a cool mom.” And now, finally, to the heiress to the toaster
strudel empire, Gretchen Weiners, AKA Lacey Chabert.
Much like her Plastics girlfriends, Lacey is another cool mom to her
four-year-old daughter, Julia. She retreated from the spotlight for
a bit after Mean Girls, opting for TV movies and voiceover work, but she’s most recently
been making headlines for her enchanting role in Hallmark’s 2020 Christmas movie Christmas Waltz.
Despite playing some unusual teenagers on the big screen, the cast of Mean Girls have all
grown up incredibly well and have all gone on to have great and successful careers.
We’d be remiss not to thank them all for giving us one of the most quotable movies of all time,
and we’re happy to see them all doing well! And for more on Mean Girls and the cast’s
2020 zoom reunion, click right over here for another Clevver Video:
Then be sure to let me know your favorite line or scene from the movie in the comment section below.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, you can find me on Instagram @Sussan_Mourad, see you later!