And how to power through and be energetic and show up,” she says.) These days especially, there is no room for laziness in her life, which is a whirlwind of focused activity that provides her with virtually no time to spare. (“If Lizzie McGuire and Disney taught me anything, it taught me how to work. What was especially ironic about the #hilaryduffchallenge was the premise that Duff was or is capable of laziness. “No one will shut up about it, so here’s my attempt.” “I do remember that time, so I’m going to have some fun with it,” she remembers thinking. But I made it through,’” she tells me.Īnd so, in response to her newfound (and unsolicited) fame on Gen Z’s preferred social media platform, she did the most endearing thing possible: logged on to TikTok and made her own version of the #hilaryduffchallenge. She even has a little pep talk she gives herself when moments from her past pop up, as they often do: “I have such a great life that I have to be like, ‘Oh, that’s funny.’ Or, ‘Oh, that was a rough period. In the 20-plus years since she became a tween Disney icon, Duff has gradually learned not to take herself, or the Internet, too seriously.
Tod’s coat and pants, Calle del Mar bandeau, Third Crown earrings, Agmes necklace, On right hand: Cartier rings, On left hand: Duff’s own rings Or when you hated the world, or your parents were getting divorced, or your boyfriend slept with your girlfriend.’” You’re like, ‘Let’s dig up photos of you when you were 16 or 17 or when you were eating 500 calories a day.
“Even though, at the end of the day, I know that a majority of people hold me in a very endeared space, it’s still… bullying. “I was like, ‘Is this going to dig up everything that I don’t want dug up? Is this just an opportunity for more fun to be poked?’” Duff tells me a couple of months later on Zoom. When the stream of text messages about the #hilaryduffchallenge started pouring in, the 34-year-old actor and mother of three was a bit taken aback, worried even. One disadvantage to having been a child star of Duff’s magnitude is that the Internet can readily dig up any number of awkward teenage moments that most people have the privilege of keeping locked in a vault forever. Slay me lazy queen,” one commenter on YouTube wrote.) And thus the #hilaryduffchallenge was born, an online micro-movement that resurrected one of Duff’s more embarrassing adolescent moments, turning it into a meme that was equal parts mocking and celebratory. (“I love how she gives absolutely 0% energy. For fans online, Duff’s performance became an aspirational act of half-assedness that they delighted in recreating in their own videos. The clip was of Hilary Duff - who was still then better known as Disney icon Lizzie McGuire - on the Today show near the peak of her pop music career, performing her single “With Love.” Duff must have been exhausted that day, because she executed the choreography with a kind of casual apathy, shimmying half-heartedly through the moves as her backup dancers gesticulated wildly. It wasn’t a particularly notable video, but it was enough to inspire a viral waterfall of content. Seemingly out of nowhere, TikTokers latched onto a video from 2007. In November, a strange and random thing happened on TikTok, as it often does.
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