Hilary Duff's Irresistible Millennial Mom Image
Culture Study Podcast
Culture Study Podcast
4.5 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think it took me like a good 10 years to make peace with like Lizzie McGuire. |
| 0:05.0 | It's weird to like play a character that people fall so in love with that doesn't grow up. |
| 0:11.0 | She stays that age and then I grew up. |
| 0:13.0 | Now I'm like obsessed with her and I like get to join the fandom and be excited like everybody else, |
| 0:19.0 | even though I like was her. But for a while, it was a hard thing |
| 0:23.5 | to be, like, changing and evolving. And, but everywhere I went, like, I was this to people. |
| 0:32.9 | This is the Culture Study podcast, and I'm Anne Helen Peterson. |
| 0:40.5 | And I'm Allie Jones. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm a writer covering celebrity for the newsletter Gossip Time. |
| 0:45.6 | Okay, so normally we chat a little before getting to listener questions, but we have to start this time with one from Sarah. |
| 0:54.4 | I read Gossip Time each week, and I've always wondered where Allie Jones' obsession with |
| 0:59.6 | Hillary Duff came from. I go with it and read her each week until I care too, but I am |
| 1:05.9 | curious the origin story for her and now mine two, check-ins. |
| 1:11.2 | This is a fabulous question. |
| 1:15.4 | Definitely the personal obsession for me started with Lizzie McGuire. |
| 1:19.6 | I was in fifth grade when that show came out 100% the target audience. |
| 1:25.2 | Hillary is just a couple years older than I am, and she was depicting a girl |
| 1:29.4 | in middle school going, you know, so it was like relatable, a little aspirational. I was completely |
| 1:37.1 | obsessed. And then career-wise, I sort of picked it back up about 10 years ago when I was working at Gawker |
| 1:48.5 | and covering, like starting to cover some celebrity stuff. And people just thought that it was |
| 1:55.1 | funny that Hillary Duff might be a character that I would cover. I think maybe some people saw some similarities. |
| 2:04.0 | I think my editor maybe saw some similarities there. |
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