In 2010, Lauren was targeted by Daisy Carter and Ryder Callahan, Shelia's twins with Tom Fisher, and held captive while Sara Smythe, Sheila's vengeful sister who had reconstructive surgery to look indentical to Lauren, impersonated La Fenmore for weeks. Sara even agreed to kill Phyllis Newman for Patty Williams if the fellow villianess returned the favor by killing Michael! Luckly, Lauren was rescued and returned to the Baldwin home. The family later with the discovery that Jill Abbott is Lauren's half-sister. After a brief period of the tension when Jill was awarded half of the Fenmore's Department Store holdings, Lauren and Michael welcomed the pariah as apart of their clan.