{"id":510472,"date":"2026-03-08T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/510472\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:59:09","slug":"hilary-duff-says-she-got-zero-education-as-a-child-star-my-life-was-different-than-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/510472\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff says she got \u2018zero education\u2019 as a child star: \u2018My life was different than most\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hilary Duff<\/a> has revealed that she didn\u2019t receive a traditional education while growing up<\/a>, but feels satisfied that she educated herself on \u201cdifferent things I was interested in\u201d.<\/p>\n

Appearing on the Table Manners podcast, cohosted by singer Jessie Ware<\/a> and her mother Lennie, Duff talked about being homeschooled and jokingly described it as \u201czero education\u201d.<\/p>\n

Duff rose to fame as one of the defining child stars of the early 2000s after landing the title role in the Disney Channel<\/a> sitcom Lizzie McGuire<\/a>, which she starred in from 2001 to 2004<\/a>. She started out with small roles in commercials and direct-to-video projects in the late 1990s, and moved into music in 2003 with her debut album Metamorphosis, which topped the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old revealed that she was \u201cbarely\u201d homeschooled, but received her GED because her mother asked her to.<\/p>\n

A GED, short for General Educational Development, is a US qualification equivalent to a high school diploma, earned by passing a series of standardised exams.<\/p>\n

However, despite the lack of a traditional school education, Duff said she knows \u201ca lot about a lot of things\u201d.<\/p>\n

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When asked if she regretted not having the opportunity to receive more of an education, the Cinderella Story star said she didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy and I feel like I educated myself on my own, of different things I was interested in, like reading. I love to read. I don\u2019t have as much time as I would like to read, but I really enjoy reading,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m past the window of caring that my education wasn\u2019t great, because I feel like I\u2019ve got strengths in other areas and it kind of helps. And I\u2019m not shy to ask a question about something.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that my life was different than most and like I don\u2019t need to be embarrassed that I don’t know when a certain war took place. Like there\u2019s Google for that and ChatGPT.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duff added that not knowing certain things has helped her connect with her teenage son, Luca, who she shares with former husband Mike Comrie. Duff has three other children with husband Matthew Koma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, something that\u2019s been so cool is connecting to my kid and having him teach me stuff that I didn\u2019t know about because he is getting a really great education,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma at Apple Music Studios in LA (Getty Images for Apple Music)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are like a very routine-based family and I just notice my kids do so much better,\u201d she added, explaining that Koma is at home with them while she is on tour for her recently released album, Luck\u2026or Something<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI desperately don\u2019t want my life to become like this big looming shadow over how they have to live their life. It\u2019s one of my biggest fears about going on tour and being so much more forward facing, because they\u2019re the stars of our household.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duff recently talked about growing up in the spotlight<\/a> after rising to fame on Disney Channel in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn’t necessarily choose that part, but it’s my reality, and so it was honestly like healing to say,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt’s hard to watch your life unfold on the internet sometimes with talking heads on TikTok speculating this, that, and the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luck\u2026or Something is Duff\u2019s first album in more than 10 years, and has sparked excitement among fans<\/a> eagerly waiting for her highly anticipated return to music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hilary Duff has revealed that she didn\u2019t receive a traditional education while growing up, but feels satisfied that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,36573,88,75272,144836,231571,231570],"class_list":["post-510472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-disney-channel","tag-entertainment","tag-hilary-duff","tag-matthew-koma","tag-school-education","tag-traditional-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}