By Danielle Campoamor
Brittany doesn’t care if you have an issue with the way she parents.
The “How I Met Your Father” star and mom of three is certainly no stranger to unsolicited criticism. From being shamed by some for kissing her now 10-year-old son, Luca, on the lips, to fans taking issue with the 34-year-old posing nude on the cover of Women’s Health, people aren’t afraid to tell her how they feel about even her most innocuous personal parenting decisions.
“Every family gets the opportunity to make their own goals and what works for them, and everybody else needs to shut their mouth,” Duff told TODAY Parents. “Aren’t we all going through enough? Why does anyone have the nerve to comment on somebody else’s family?”
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After landing her first television role in 1993, Duff has spent decades fortifying a thick enough skin to let all the criticism just role off her back. (“I think ‘the weird ones’ are the ones that looked into that and thought it was weird,” Duff says of “kissgate.”)
Now, along with her husband, Matthew Koma, Duff is passing on that resiliency to her three kids, Luca Cruz, 10, Banks Violet, 2, and Mae James, 1.By Danielle Campoamor
Hilary Duff doesn’t care if you have an issue with the way she parents.
The “How I Met Your Father” star and mom of three is certainly no stranger to unsolicited criticism. From being shamed by some for kissing her now 10-year-old son, Luca, on the lips, to fans taking issue with the 34-year-old posing nude on the cover of Women’s Health, people aren’t afraid to tell her how they feel about even her most innocuous personal parenting decisions.
“Every family gets the opportunity to make their own goals and what works for them, and everybody else needs to shut their mouth,” Duff told TODAY Parents. “Aren’t we all going through enough? Why does anyone have the nerve to comment on somebody else’s family?”
After landing her first television role in 1993, Duff has spent decades fortifying a thick enough skin to let all the criticism just role off her back. (“I think ‘the weird ones’ are the ones that looked into that and thought it was weird,” Duff says of “kissgate.”)
Now, along with her husband, Matthew Koma, Duff is passing on that resiliency to her three kids, Luca Cruz, 10, Banks Violet, 2, and Mae James, 1.
