Hilary Duff

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, you know, in your like line of work.

And 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 like pretty short lived, but definitely toyed with it during a time of like, I'm on tour, I'm filming a movie, I'm doing, you know, like a lot of moving parts to my life and just trying to

also like form as a person.

Honestly, I think it took just time and bigger things happening in my life that like having children that took the spot of the other things that didn't mean as much to worry about.

And luckily those things felt easy to me to replace.

I think having success at such a young age makes making work choices a little harder because there's a pressure of a level of success.

And I think once I did have kids and my phone wasn't ringing as much and I wasn't able to show up to work as much and say yes as often, I ended up just saying no a whole bunch.

And not being worried about like sitting still.

And a lot of great things came from that decision.

And a lot of confidence came from that decision.

A lot of my steadiness has come from being in such a great stable relationship.

That's helped me a whole bunch get through some pretty heavy themes in my life.

I think a part of it is who you are.

And then I think a whole bunch of it is your influence around you, you know?

And I had a mom who was very supportive of a dream, you know?

And she made me take it seriously because it was a big change for our life to like leave Texas and come to LA.

But she also didn't,

Our livelihood wasn't weighted on whether or not I booked a job or not.