Hilary Duff opens up about her ‘torturous’ Lizzie McGuire role
Hilary Duff has been making some waves on social media lately, mostly because of her unfortunate Tinder fail on live radio not too long ago.
In an interview Pride Source, the former child star, now mom to son Luca, has gotten candid about her relationship status and her old acting gigs.
Hilary has discovered that the usual Tinder method is a little bit more difficult when you’re a recognisable face. Shocker. She said that previous experience has given her a bit of a reality check; “I don't know what it's like to be a totally normal girl.”
She also noted including her Tinder experience in her Sparks video was because of her “strive for normalcy in my life every day.”
Not surprising seeing as she was just 14 when she starred in the Disney Chanel series Lizzie McGuire.
She revealed that being Lizzie has been “torturous” at some points in her life.
Evidently it can become a bit stressful when your life becomes your work: “the writers all knew me so well and were writing things that were happening in my life.”
Trying to shake her alter ego took longer than Hilary expected and she opened up about how that wasn’t always easy for her: “four years, five years after that – and I was still Lizzie McGuire to people and that was super annoying.”
It looks like she’s made peace with her past now though, and taking a break from the Hollywood scene is what she credits to her staying power. After years of touring and making films she says she almost lost sight of who she was, and needed a break to put things in perspective.
“At some point I was like, "I don't even know if I'm that person anymore, and I don't even have the time to figure that out."
She seems to have it figured out by now, but she did not she wouldn’t like to a 14-year old in 2015: “I feel like even more so now than it was, your youth is totally taken away. You see these girls dressing like they're 20 when they're 14.”
Sounds like something Lizzie would say..
