Hilary Duff has a bone to pick with folks who told her that motherhood gets easy after already having a couple of kids.
“People lied to me and said that when you get to three, once you get past two to three is easy,” the actor and singer told Us Weekly in an interview published online Thursday. “Three sent me for a loop. I could not get my feet to touch the ground for a solid year.”
The “Lizzie McGuire” star welcomed her third child, Mae, in 2021 with her husband, musician Matthew Koma. The couple, who married in 2019, share children Banks and Townes as well. Duff is also mom to son Luca from a previous marriage.
Duff said she’d thought a third child would just assimilate to “do what the family does,” which would make raising them “easy.” But Mae apparently brought the opposite energy, with Duff telling Us Weekly that her little one prefers to “run everything.”
“She is a wild woman, but she has her own ideas,” Duff said.
“And then we obviously liked her enough to go for number four,” she joked. “And [it] felt like there was space, and I’m not sure there is, but we’re figuring it out.”
The “How I Met Your Father” star also opened up about the valuable lesson that becoming a mom of four has taught her.
“It’s taken me having four kids to realize that I can’t control everybody’s happiness and I can’t be constantly the cruise director of everything,” she explained. “I try my hardest, but it’s been a really nice practice to just say no a little bit more.”
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In 2021, Duff gushed about loving the “mayhem” of raising her kiddos.
“I love when everyone’s full of energy and the house is buzzing. You never know what the day is going to bring or what your kid’s going to say,” Duff told People that year. “We’re in the thick of it, and it feels good.”
See more on Duff at Us Weekly.
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