Epitome of a Hollywood train wreck.
I see her as more of an engineered train wreck. She isn't taken seriously as an actress, so she parties as high profile as she can. When nobody notices her anymore because she's on the wrong side of 25, she does a stint in rehab so everyone's talking about her again.
She'll emerge in a month with some new refined image, ready to be taken seriously as an actress. If that doesn't work, more rehab.
Seriously, it's just like "ooh, I hear ronnie and shawn ray are coming back to do the arnold and the short mr O class next year..." right before MD and BSN re-sign their deals. Tara Reid is trying to stay relevant, and in the spotlight. Or maybe i'm wrong, and she's just a junkie whore... that's cool too@!