Hilary Duff Bares Soul on Divorce, Family Rifts, and Disney's Impact
Hilary Duff opens up about her divorce, family dynamics, and the pressures of fame in a revealing interview. She reflects on the challenges of navigating personal struggles and the impact of early stardom on her life.
Hilary Duff recently shared deeply personal reflections on her life, including her divorce, family relationships, and experiences with the Disney Channel, during an interview on On Purpose With Jay Shetty.
She discussed her 2014 split from ex-husband Mike Comrie, stating, “I felt like in that time of my life, I was so ready to get married … I was ready to have a baby. I was ready to have something of my own, you know, that I could just like, focus on and it be mine.
Duff continued, “I’ve been pretty open about, you know, being a divorced person and what that’s like, and being a single mom. Choosing to end a family is a huge, horrible choice to make. But I also co-parent … with that person. And we do a great job mostly.”
The Lizzie McGuire alum married the former NHL star in 2010, staying together for four years and welcoming son Luca before separating. Their divorce was finalized in 2016, and Duff is now married to songwriter Matthew Koma, with whom she’s welcomed three more kids over the years.
Another significant separation in Hilary's life was the divorce of her parents, Robert and Susan, in 2008. She acknowledged having "complicated" relationships with both her parents and her sister, Haylie, topics she addressed on the podcast.
"To be in a family that, you know, your parents aren’t together, and you don’t have relationships with both of your parents, it’s devastating,” she told Shetty. “You want your parents to feel like they care about you. And a big portion of my existence hasn’t felt like that. I don’t know if that’s the truth, but that’s how it feels.”
She also spoke about her relationship with her sister, Haylie, stating, “My sister and I don’t speak,” Hilary added of her rift with Haylie, which inspired “We Don’t Talk,” one of the former’s new songs on Luck … or Something. “It’s very hard to be a person who’s had their life exposed in the industry for 25 years, and we were talking about, you know, that earlier tiptoeing around what the outcome has been for some of it … It’s a very vulnerable song, and it’s a very raw part of my existence. I hope it’s not forever, but it’s for right now.”
Duff also discussed the negative impacts of finding fame through Disney at a young age. “Probably around 15 was when I feel like the world started getting very interested in what I was wearing, who I was dating, what I was eating … I feel like I lost some serious innocence,” she shared.
This scrutiny led to body image issues and disordered eating. "I was dealing with people commenting on my body at a young age and starting to get photographed and people, like, asking you how many times you weigh yourself or comparing you to people that were thinner than you or other girls in your line of work,” she said. “I definitely struggled for a little while there, just trying to fit a certain mold and have control over something in my life. Thankfully that was pretty short-lived. Um, but definitely toyed with it.”
Luck … or Something, released on Feb. 20, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. She will embark on a world arena tour in support of the LP, marking her first tour in over a decade, starting in June.
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