All About Lindsay Lohan’s Husband and Baby’s Father, Bader Shammas

Lindsay Lohan revealed she and husband Bader Shammas managed to keep their marriage secret for months with her one-year wedding anniversary post shared on April 3, 2023. (Their marriage was first reported in July 2022.)

But while Lohan and Shammas have kept much of their love story private, they haven't kept the milestones completely to themselves, including their first pregnancy, wedding anniversary, and the birth of their baby.

In November 2021, Lohan announced she was engaged to Shammas. She captioned the carousel of smiling engagement photos, “My love. My life. My family. My future. #love” and added a diamond ring emoji.

In July 2o22, People confirmed that Lohan and Shammas were married. She posted an Instagram that seemingly spilled the news too, although she later took the post down. It said, via People:

“🎂❤️🥰I am the luckiest woman in the world. Not because I need a man, but because he found me and knew that I wanted to find happiness and grace, all at the same time. I am stunned that this is my husband. My life and my everything. ❤️every woman should feel like this everyday 💖🙏.”

And on March 14, 2023, she announced they were expecting their first child together. “We are blessed and excited! 🙏🤍👶🍼,” she wrote, tagging her husband in the post.

Shortly after, she celebrated the wedding anniversary and shared the real date they got married: “April 3, 2023 ❤️ 1 year today ❤️ Happy Anniversary ☺️”

On July 17, 2023, the couple announced the birth of their first child: baby boy Luai.

Here, what to know about Shammas and Lohan:

Shammas is a financier and he currently works as the Assistant Vice President at banking firm Credit Suisse. He previously worked as an associate with BNP Paribas Wealth Management. He earned a degree in 2010 from the University of South Florida in Mechanical Engineering and eventually received a Bachelor of Science in Finance degree from John H. Sykes College of Business.

Lohan shared the story of meeting her husband to Allure in June 2023. She met him at a Dubai restaurant on a Monday night. “I said, ‘You look like someone I know.’ He was like, ‘No, I don’t, who?’” she recalled, then sharing the pair spoke for hours that evening“And then I said to him, ‘I feel like you're the person I'm going to be with forever.’ I'd never been able to talk to someone like this.”

Lohan and Shammas kept their relationship very private, but The Independent reported that prior to their engagement, they had been together about two years. A source told The Sun earlier in 2021 that their relationship was doing well, saying, “Lindsay’s relationship with Bader [Shammas] is going strong. She has been with him for about two years now.”

Lohan later revealed to Allure that Shammas proposed to her in Utah while she was filming Falling for Christmas.

There was a post from Lohan in February of 2020 of herself out with band members of the rock band Bastille at a Dubai rock concert, which she initially captioned, “@aliana lovely night with sister and my boyfriend bader such a magical night.”

But shortly after she edited the caption and now the post seems to be deleted entirely. Her post revealing her marriage also was taken down.

The couple resides in Dubai, where Lohan has lived for the last seven years.

The Mean Girls actress was previously engaged to Russian business heir Egor Tarabasov, before their split in 2017. Lohan has since claimed that Tarabasov was physically abusive. Tarabosov has emphatically denied all abuse claims and accused Lohan of launching a “smear campaign” against him.

Lohan purposely tries to keep their relationship private, but to Cosmopolitan in an interview published in October 2022, she did offer a few gushing words about her husband. When asked who her support system is, Lohan credited Shammas: “Well, I have an amazing husband, who’s a very calm person,” she said. “Just the best. And my family. And I feel like I have a small group of good friends who are just really good people. That’s the only support that I really need: friends, family, and loved ones.”

Cosmopolitan added in its interview footnotes that Shammas has “exceptionally chill energy” and stopped by her shoot set. “Lindsay is resolute in keeping the details of their relationship private but occasionally slips in compliments about him on her podcast, where she’s said, ‘He is one of the wisest people I know and gives the most sound advice,’” the outlet wrote.

In March 2024, Lohan spoke with ET! about what it was like working with Shammas on her new Netflix rom-com, Irish Wish. Her husband is credited as an executive producer on the film.

“It was a fun experience. Netflix does that really well—the set becomes a family,” she recalled. “We laughed a lot. Sometimes we broke and had to go back.”

“It was great, but I think it wasn’t for him [Bader]!” the Mean Girls actress joked.

Lohan posted on her instagram that she and Shammas were expecting their first baby on March 14, 2023. She did not disclose the baby's sex or due date at the time, but gave an additional statement to TMZ, saying, “We are very excited for our new family member to arrive and we are looking forward to this next chapter of our lives!”

On Thursday, April 27, 2023, she shared a carousel of pictures from her recent life as an expecting mom, including shots from her baby shower and with her smiling husband. In the caption, she wrote, “Good times ☺️🤰So grateful for all of the wonderful people in my life!”

And on the last day of June 2023, Us Weekly reported the couple are expecting a baby boy. A source said the pregnancy “has been smooth and amazing” and they are “debating baby names.”

As for the baby's surname, the insider says, “Lindsay is traditional and it's even more exciting because she now has an even greater bond with her husband because their son will carry his last name.”

Despite reports of their wedding not coming out until July 2022, Lohan and Shammas actually tied the knot on April 3, 2022. The couple did not share wedding photos or more details on where the nuptials happen. Lohan confirmed their wedding date in her one-year anniversary post.

The exact birth date for Lohan and Shammas' baby boy wasn't initially announced, but Lohan's rep gave a statement announcing his birth on July 17, 2023. “Lindsay Lohan and her financier husband, Bader Shammas, welcomed a beautiful, healthy son named Luai,” the rep said. “The family is over the moon in love.”

People wrote that the name Luai is Arabic and means “shield or protector.” He was born in Dubai.

Lohan opened up about what her husband thinks of her work and the acting industry in a March 2024 interview with Bustle.

With the acting world, “he will support me because I’m in it. You know what I mean?” she said. She added that she likes to include him in her projects because “he’s very intuitive and has a very good understanding of how things are going to work out in the end. He can kind of foresee things. So I like getting his advice on everything and having him be a part of it. I just feel safer.”

Lohan and Shammas were seen on the opening weekend of Irish Wish on Netflix celebrating at Santa Monica restaurant Giorgio Baldi. Lohan was wearing a sparkling cream knit dress with a matching faux fur coat and sandal heels.

Shammas wore a black blazer, jeans, a tan shirt, and a pair of brown leather dress shoes. The couple held hands as they walked.

Lohan offered a glimpse into her marriage when she shared a carousel of photos from her 38th birthday celebration. She and Shammas posed together in two pictures from her party.

In an interview with Flaunt to promote her Netflix romcom Our Little Secret, Lohan shared a bit about her life in Dubai with her husband and son and her plans for the upcoming holidays in December.

Of Dubai, Lohan stated, “It’s still a city. So it’s pretty similar[to L.A.]. I mean, I do anything that anyone else does in their daily life. I’m up with my son in the mornings, I do breakfast with him, go to my pilates, come home for lunch, and go to the park, the same things that any normal mom would do in their daily life. Or you would do in L.A.”

She added, “I think the only difference is the time zone shift. There’s a big disconnect between when work starts for me and other places. I can do my work calls with New York at like three or four, around this time, and then L.A. picks up later.”

When asked if they celebrated Christmas with a tree, she replied, “Well, actually this year we’ll be stateside. But no, no matter where we are, we always do a Christmas tree. And now that we have our son, we’re going to do Santa, we’ll do decorating together. All that fun stuff. Last year we did it, but he was very small. This year, he’s getting bigger, so the holidays are getting more exciting, because we get to share it with our little one. It just makes it all the better and all the more special.”

The couple enjoyed a lunch date in December and it must have gone well, because Lohan couldn’t help but post some adorable selfies of them smiling together. In the carousel, she hugs his arm in one picture and leans towards him for a kiss in the other. They’re both dressed casually with the chic eatery’s interior visible behind them. She captioned the pics, “Lunch date with my hubby 😊🥰😘”

In a new interview with Hello! UK magazine, Lohan shared her nervousness around meeting Shammas’s family when they first connected.

“That’s always a potentially tricky situation,” she shared. “I remember being super-nervous when I met my husband’s family for the first time. His mum is so great, and she has all these gorgeous sisters, so it was a lot.”

The actress was “scared at first,” but everyone made her “feel so welcome.”

“They’re so sweet, and we’re all really close now,” she shared. “We’re one big family, which is so nice, especially at Christmas—but they’re always there if I need someone to turn to.”

Lohan also revealed a bit more about motherhood, saying, “It’s everything I hoped it would be and more...My little boy is such a blessing. Being with him is like falling in love all over again, every single day.”

She added, “Being in Dubai and getting time to just be me and spend time with my family without any of the industry noise around me has been so nice. I love it there. Every day, being there with my son and my husband, I feel so blessed.”

On February 1, Lohan posted some shots of her recent life, which included a trip to the zoo with her husband and son, Luai. In the first photo, Shammas holds the toddler as they look out at the animals. In other pictures, the baby enjoys the animals on his own, or holds hands with his mom and dad as he explores.

On June 11, Shammas shared a rare photo of Lohan in his Instagram Story from a trip to Monte Carlo, Monaco, writing over it, “My life. And what a blessing you are.”

Lohan re-shared it in her own Stories. She was wearing dark sunglasses, a spaghetti strap top, diamond stud earrings, and matching necklace. Shammas was wearing a black T-shirt and sunglasses as well.