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Hilary Duffis, without a doubt, one of the most beloved celebs in the world.
With a career dating back to the late ’90s, an entire generation has grown up with the star.
Sadly, that reboot never came to be, butnot for lack of tryingon Duff’s part!
Duff only seems to get more popular as the years go by.
Here’s a closer look at how she’s transformed throughout her impressive career.
The millennial generation grew up with the actress and remember her years as achild star.
Duff followed in older sister Haylie’s footsteps when she started acting in preschool.
Duff soon started going on auditions of her own.
The rest is history.
It was like the craziest thing.
I had to call my mom from the closet."
She added, “It was really crazy.
It was actually a little scary.”
““In the beginning I definitely dealt with a lot of that,” she toldTimein 2015.
Duff kept fighting to find roles that let her grow as an actress, though.
“So 22 doesn’t seem that crazy to get married.”
At the age of 24, Duff gave birth to their son, Luca.
The transition to motherhood was difficult for the actress.
I always knew that was going to be my number one priority in life.”
In spite of the challenges, Duff said that becoming a mom transformed her life.
The actresswent throughadivorcein 2015, but she took it in stride.
“Things happen over a long relationship that you’re free to’t always fight.
I just always want to fight for happiness.”
She’d previouslygiven birthto their daughter, Banks, in October 2018.
That’s like one of my most embarrassing moments in life."
but that she finds the show funny today.
“It’s tough,” the multi-talented Duff toldTimein 2015 about balancing her acting and singing careers.
But it was good."
And alsobeing a mom the most important one for me."
Her debut novel, “Elixir,” is a paranormal romance.
“I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl,” she toldSeventeenin 2010.
“I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.”
“I don’t have any plans to write any more books,” Duff toldBuzzFeedin 2018.
“It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.”
She is, after all, juggling quite a lot with acting, music, and motherhood!
“She does not need to go around exposing herself.
What you see is what you get with Hilary, basically.
It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?”
But having a good reputation was important to me."
There was a time in her life when she struggled with herbody imageand made unhealthy choices.
“When I was 17, I weighed, like, 98 pounds,” she toldHealth.
“I was totally obsessed with everything I put in my mouth.
I was way too skinny.
Fortunately, Duff has amuchhealthier relationship with her body these days and isn’t so hard on herself.
“That constant pressure of wanting something different than I had?
I regret that,” she said.
“I feel like there was way too much time spent thinking about that.”
The actress added that she now accepts herself for who she is.
“This is the body that I have,” she said.
“And I feel good about myself.”
Duff has also changed her eating habits through the help of a dieting coach and by cutting out snacking.
She still eats foods she likes, though.
“I don’t know.
I loved Lizzie McGuire and it might be really fun to see where she is now.”
The actress married Matthew Koma in December 2019, seven months after announcing their engagement onInstagram.
Duff worked with “luxury experience firm"Oren Co’s Yifat Oren to plan her perfect winter wedding.
Duff wanted something elegant but not overdone.
What’s a person to do when they can’t go out?
If you’re Hilary Duff, you pick up some new hobbies.
Scratch that, you pick up alotof new hobbies.
Koma happily helped her do this, watching the kids while she got some socializing in.
The book was inspired by a special person: her daughter Banks.
In short, it seems studio execs were reluctant to let Lizzie grow up.
I don’t get that,” Robert Carradine, who played Lizzie’s dad, toldVice.
Duff announced the birth of her newest bundle of joy, Mae James Bair, in anInstagrampost.
“We LOVE you beauty,” she wrote in the caption.
Baby Mae joined the world after an emotional home birth for which the family was present.
She added, “We move a baby through our body.”
That being said, Duff thinks the writers of “Younger” did right by her character, Kelsey.
If that all sounds like the character is set for a spin-off, there’s a reason for that.
Don’t gettooexcited, though.
“It’s a big question mark whether it’s going to happen,” said Star.
Duff toldVarietythat she couldn’t be more thrilled to star on the show, which will air on Hulu.
