Hilary Duff responds to rumors about previous flame in “Mature,” torn relationship with sister Haylie and extra

Millennial icon Hilary Duff is again with new music for the primary time in additional than a decade. Her new album, “luck… or something,” that she produced along with her husband, is out there now.

Duff’s been lighting up social media — and bringing followers a much-needed dose of early 2000s nostalgia — since kicking off her first headlining tour in 18 years final month.

Before stepping onstage, Duff jokingly informed “CBS Mornings” that she appears to be like within the mirror and tells herself, “You’re a bad b****. You got this.”

Stepping out of Lizzie McGuire’s shadow

In 2001, the TV sequence “Lizzie McGuire” made Duff the Disney Channel’s authentic “it girl.” Two years later, when she was simply 15 years previous, her studio album “Metamorphosis” skyrocketed to primary. But it wasn’t simple to step out of Lizzie McGuire’s shadow.

“I think only something that I’ve come to realize in my thirties, once I went through my uncomfortable phase of not wanting to be associated with [Lizzie McGuire] anymore, was like, oh, it’s just complicated to play a role on TV that doesn’t ever grow up,” she stated.

When it involves childhood fame, there isn’t any rule e book. It may be isolating at occasions, Duff admits — however she discovered her method via it.

“And now I don’t care at all. And I am so overwhelmingly grateful for that experience. But it was really challenging to get to a point of peace with that,” she added.

While she continued performing, Duff took time away from music and touring.

“I started to build my life and put my focus where I felt loved and seen for me,” stated Duff, a mother of 4, including that she’s most happy with her household. 

She met her husband, musician and producer Matthew Koma, in the course of the making of her final album in 2015. Duff’s new album, “luck… or something” can be their child.

Duff responds to rumors about previous flame in “Mature”

“There’s a lot of themes of abandonment on the record,” Duff stated. “And to make songs about that with [Koma] and just have him further understand kind of my scars was really nice.”

In her new music “Mature,” Duff sings a few relationship with an older man, who followers are satisfied is Leonardo DiCaprio, and he or she’s maintaining them guessing.

“I have had so much fun watching the internet stir about this,” Duff stated, laughing. “There is no way I can say yes or no. It’s too much fun.”

In a current interview with Glamour, Duff confirmed it was about her personal cross-generational relationship.

“It was very brief with someone older than me, and that was not illegal, but inappropriate when you have this much time removed from it,” she informed the journal.

Duff confronts household strains in new album

 In her music “The Optimist,” Duff explores her relationship along with her dad.

“I think it’s really challenging for one person to have major success in a family,” she stated. “In ‘The Optimist,’ that’s what it feels like for me. And I’m sure it has to feel like that for him. Although I’m the kid. And it’s been hard to get back to a place of health.”

Duff additionally laments a ruptured household relationship within the music “We Don’t Talk,” which she confirmed is about her older sister, Haylie.

“It’s definitely about my sister. And just absolutely the most lonely part of my existence is not having my sister in my life at the moment,” she stated.

She is not positive what her sister will consider the music, however she stated she needed to place it on the document “because it’s [her] truth.” 

“I don’t know if she’ll hear it. I don’t know how she’ll react to it. You know, it is a really personal part of my life that doesn’t get to stay personal. So I might as well say how it is for me, and that’s all I’m trying to do. I’m not trying to say anything bad. It’s literally just my experience — and that’s really all I feel like sharing,” Duff added.