Hilary Duff responds to Ashley Tisdale's 'toxic mom group' essay

Hilary Duff spoke about Ashley Tisdale’s viral essay in which Tisdale wrote that she left a mom friend group after it became toxic. Duff said the scrutiny is familiar: “I mean, this is not new for me. I’ve had this since I was maybe 15 and starting to get followed around by paparazzi.

Everything starts getting documented and everyone knows my life and all the players in it.” She also pushed back on the online commentary, noting the role of social media and short-form creators: “So the stories that get news pickup — it’s not what happens to a normal person who maybe became an actor as an adult.

And now it’s escalated by the talking heads on TikTok that need clickbait,” Duff said, adding that tuning it out “depends on the day.” She said her husband Matthew Koma and their children — Luca, 13, Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 20 months — help ground her. “Knowing that I get to open up the backdoors and play soccer as a family and take a hot tub and go get our chicken eggs — that’s the purpose of life,” she said.

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