There’s a TMZ headline from 2008 that reads, “Lindsay — You Missed a Spot.” In the photo, Lindsay Lohan is wearing a short dress and a traffic-cone-colored spray tan that ends abruptly at her ankles. It’s like someone attached the feet of a Fanning sister to her legs.
It was the aughts. Instead of “Is she on Ozempic?,” tabloid culture was centered on “Why is she so orange?” In 2012, Christina Aguilera sang at an Etta James tribute with brown streaks of liquid running down her legs. (She later explained she was nervous and the sweat made her self-tanner run.) There’s the 2003 Friends episode “The One with Ross’s Tan,” where David Schwimmer’s character accidentally sprays his front side three times, making it look like he’s … let’s just say you wouldn’t make this episode today.
