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"I really related to that girl."
by larryfitzmauriceBuzzFeed Staff
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Hilary Duff's known for quite a few things at this point — but it all started with the Disney Channel classic show Lizzie McGuire.
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Obviously, a show like Lizzie McGuire stays with you to some extent through your entire career — and in an interview with Bustle, Duff revealed how that experience has been over the years.
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“I was too young to do a character dive on Lizzie,” she said while talking about the similarities between her and the character. “I think I was just playing myself. And I really related to that girl. She was me, and I was her, and that was that.”
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Duff also admitted that she "still" feels pigeonholed by the character, especially since people have mentioned her constantly for Duff's entire career.
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“I was like, ‘I’m me! I’m Hilary, not that person. That’s a made-up person.’ It was a desire to be seen as a person outside of a character. By the time I was 18, I was like, ‘If I hear that name one more time!’
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"The lines get so blurry between me and her, and I think they are for the world, still," Duff continued. "And they probably always will be. I think just accepting that has brought me a lot of peace.”
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“That doesn’t mean I don’t have a backbone, and I don’t have a drive, and I don’t have a vision. I have all of those things.”
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“Now I’m like, ‘I love her.’ She’s the greatest. She made everyone feel good.”
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Indeed. If you want to keep watching Duff make people feel good on TV, catch her on How I Met Your Father on Hulu. Here's the trailer.
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Read the entire profile of Duff here.
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