Hilary Duff was ready to grow up.
Guesting on the “Good Guys” podcast the “How I Met Your Father” star said after her breakout Disney show ended in 2004 she “really didn’t want to be Lizzie McGuire anymore.”
“For so long people were just like ‘Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie,” she told hosts Josh Peck and Ben Soffer. “And still, now to this day, which it doesn’t bother me anymore but it did for a while, I just desperately needed to be my own person.”
“I think that I thought music was gonna be a good way to introduce myself, reintroduce myself, and it was,” she added.
Duff played the titular character in “Lizzie McGuire” on Disney from 2001-2004. A planned reboot on Disney+ was ultimately canceled but the star said she’s “optimistic” about the future of the show.
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Post-“McGuire” Duff transitioned to a music career helping her shed the Disney image.
“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.
She also went on saying she wants to make more music.
“I miss that version of myself. And I definitely think that I have more to do in that department. I just don’t know when.”
Duff and husband Matthew Koma are parents to Banks Violet, 4, and Mae James, 11 months.
“How I Met Your Father” streams on Hulu.
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