Hilary Duff Recalls The Challenges She Faced Trying To ‘Reintroduce’ Herself After ‘Lizzie McGuire’

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Although Hilary Duff shot to fame playing Lizzie McGuire on the hit Disney TV series, there came a point when she wanted to detach herself from being known as the beloved titular teenage character.

As soon as Duff wrapped the series, which “shot incredibly fast” for only two seasons, she told Josh Peck and Ben Soffer on this week’s episode of Dear Media’s “Good Guys” podcast that she “wanted to sing.” “I really didn’t want to be Lizzie McGuire anymore, as cool as it was,” Duff admitted. “For so long people were just like ‘Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie’ and still now to this day, which it doesn’t bother me anymore but it did for a while like I just desperately needed to be my own person,” she explained. “I think that I thought music was gonna be a good way to introduce myself- reintroduce myself- and it was.” READ MORE: Jonas Brothers & DNCE Cover Hilary Duff’s ‘Come Clean’, Campaign For ‘Lizzie McGuire’ Revival However, as the teenage actress tried to grow and tried to do something different at the time, people found it difficult to accept, as if Duff was turning her back on something that fans loved. “I would say that was five years of my life just trying to navigate becoming a person that I wanted to be outside of who everybody wanted me to be,” she said. “I remember being on tour and having mothers come up to me and be like ‘never change.

Whatever you do, just never never change’ and I would go into my dressing room after a meet and greet and just be like ‘what?’ They probably didn’t mean anything by it but could you imagine telling an 18 or 17-year-old to never change.

Never become the person [you’re supposed to become].” READ MORE: Hilary Duff Teases Josh Radnor Appearing In ‘How I Met Your Father’ “I was an