“Lizzie McGuire” put Hilary Duff on
the map. In other words, Duff was Hannah Montana before “Hannah Montana.”
Now, at age 20, Hilary is all grown up and secure in her body image, after
years of dealing with weight issues. From “thin Lizzie” to “just right Hilary,”
she revealed her secret to Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos.
“In Hollywood there’s a lot of pressure, at least in the weight category. How
do you deal with that?” Maria asked Hilary.
“They said things before, you know like, ‘Oh my gosh! She’s gained weight!‘
And then I lose weight and then it’s, ‘Oh my god, she has lost too much
weight!‘”
The fluctuating frame of Hilary Duff has been a surprisingly hot topic for
the past two years or so.
“I think that when you just laugh about it and you don’t let it effect you —
it’s easier said then done, definitely, because it hurts your feelings and it
gets to you, and we’re just human,” Hilary said.
At 20, Hilary is now physically fully mature and at a comfortable weight on
the cover of the latest issue of Cosmopolitan. Like the rest of us though,
Hilary has to hit the gym.
“I work with a Pilates trainer,” Hilary revealed. “I am so bad at exercising
outside of Pilates. It’s just not fun, it’s like I just can’t make myself
go.”
After bursting on to the scene as Lizzie McGuire at just 13-years-old, doing
the singing and the fashion line thing, and surviving a not-so-nice breakup with
Joel Madden, Hilary has remained seemingly unaffected.
“You are so young, how do you keep such a level head about everything?” Maria
asked Hilary.
“I think that it has to do with people that I surround myself with and
keeping a focus on what is important to me,” Hilary said. “I think I am a pretty
normal person outside of my not-so-normal job and I love everything I do.”
In Hilary’s newest endeavor, she’s shedding her good girl image for a
rebellious one in indie drama “Greta,” but even on set, the scrutiny is
relentless.
During the filming of a scene for “Greta,” the paparazzi photographed the
star as she walked into the ocean fully clothed. They later reported that she
nearly drowned.
“My mom called me she is like, ‘Are you OK? Are they taking care of you out
there?‘ [I’m] like ‘Yeah!‘ and she was like, ‘Supposedly you can’t swim and like
two guys had to save you in the water,‘” Hilary recounted.
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