Hilary Duff rose to fame at an early age as a child star following the success of her show Lizzie McGuire and subsequently debuted in music, becoming one of the notable pop culture presences of the 2010s.
The 38-year-old recently returned to the music industry on her own terms, after taking more than a decade off to focus on her personal life and starting a family, and can now retrospectively acknowledge the challenges she faced then.
He Ripe The hitmaker was honored at the TIME100 gala as one of the most influential personalities of the year, and during the TIME100 Summit, Duff reflected on revisiting his emerging era through documentaries such as Silence on the set: The dark side of children’s television and Framing Britney Spears.
“It was a long time ago, but it’s an out-of-body experience. I think I feel quite sad when I watch a lot of those documentaries for obvious reasons,” he said. roommates confessed the singer.
The documentaries she mentioned focus on the struggles behind the screen and the exploitation of child stars who were growing up at the same time as Duff.
Speaking of the negative experiences of her fellow artists at the time, the Metamorphosis The singer shared that she feels “very grateful that they didn’t put me in too many positions that left me with battle wounds.”
Duff continued, “I’ve had a job as an adult since I was 9 years old. I had a very different upbringing, a lot of lost experiences, but also a lot of amazing experiences.” [ones].”
Despite her gratitude for being sheltered from the dark realities of the entertainment industry, Duff acknowledged that she learned to work like an adult even as a teenager. “I had to be able to hold my own in a room full of adults constantly, and I was expected to show up and be professional. Even if I was exhausted or sick or whatever, I just kept working.”
