Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff’s once-tight sibling bond strained because the pair entered maturity.
“Completely probably the most lonely a part of my existence shouldn’t be having my sister in my life for the time being,” Hilary mentioned on CBS Mornings in February 2026confirming the sisters’ long-rumored estrangement. “It’s my fact, and so many individuals are (additionally) having this expertise. It’s exhausting as a result of I’m me, and other people know every little thing about my life since I used to be a baby. I didn’t essentially select that half, however it’s my actuality. It was truthfully, like, therapeutic to say.”
Haylie, in the meantime, has not publicly addressed the sisters’ supposed falling out. Preserve scrolling for a full timeline of Hilary and Haylie’s ups and downs:
1987
Haylie Duff turned a giant sister in September 1987 when their dad and mom, Susan and Robert Duffwelcomed daughter Hilary Duff.
1993
The Duff household relocated from Houston, Texas, when Hilary was 6 in order that she might pursue a profession in appearing.
“My sister, Haylie (Duff), and I lived with our mom in a giant complicated as youngsters. There have been all baby actors, and it was a gated neighborhood so all of us knew one another,” Hilary Duff instructed Grazia in 2022. “It was a really protected place and my sister and I had been the leaders of the group.”
She continued, “The safety at all times scolded us for making noises and the neighbors complained on a regular basis. So, sooner or later my sister and I hid within the bushes, waited for the attendant to depart the workplace and lined his golf cart with tampons. When he got here again, he pulled them off one after the other and we laughed out loud behind the bushes.”
Hilary starred within the likes of Casper Meets Wendy and Lizzie McGuire, whereas Haylie discovered success with roles on Seventh Heaven and Napoleon Dynamite. Haylie additionally made temporary cameos on her sibling’s Lizzie McGuire collection and its 2003 function movie.
2006
Haylie and Hilary Duff costarred in Materials Womena contemporary adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibilityas sisters and heiresses Ava and Tanzie.
2017
Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff had been final photographed collectively at a launch occasion for “Worlds WIth Buddies 2” in West Hollywood, California.
2021
4 years later, Haylie Duff left California for the sisters’ native Texas.
“I at all times imagined that I’d come again to Texas and lift our household right here and issues like that,” Haylie instructed Fox Information Digital in 2022, referring to accomplice Matt Rosenberg and their two daughters. “We imagined it in all probability extra as our women had been going into center faculty or that age, however when the (coronavirus) pandemic occurred, we simply form of checked out one another, and we had been like, ‘Ought to we? Ought to we get slightly extra space and slightly recent air?”
Hilary Duff, for her half, retained her residence in L.A. along with her husband, Matthew Koma and their three daughters. (Hilary additionally shares son Luca with ex Mike Comrie.)
2025
Haylie Duff couldn’t consider it had been 20 years since she labored with sister Hilary Duff in Materials Women.
“Is it 20 years? Wow. That may be a film I really feel like my daughters would love,” she instructed TV Insider in June. “They haven’t seen that, and I really feel they’d love that film.”
When requested about making a Materials Women sequel, Haylie coyly teased, “By no means say by no means.”
“I believe we each wanted to go and discover our personal means, however by no means say by no means,” she added.
2026
Hilary Duff launched her album Luck … Or One thing in February with a track known as “We Don’t Speak.”
“’Trigger we come from the identical residence, the identical blood / A special mixture, however the identical lock,” she sings. “Folks ask me the way you’re doing, I wanna say wonderful / However the fact is that I don’t know / What I at all times find yourself saying is / How we don’t speak, we don’t speak, discuss it.”
Hilary later confirmed to CBS Mornings that the only was “undoubtedly” after Haylie Duff and their estrangement — and that she wasn’t positive whether or not her sister ought to hearken to the monitor.
“I don’t assume that may assist. I believe I’ve to only exist as an individual by myself and do what I wish to do,” Hilary acknowledged to the outlet. “I hope that for everybody, that’s the place I’m sitting. You need to do what you wish to do and you need to do what feels good for you. It’s taken me numerous time to get there and to dwell that means and to not care what the noise goes to be round it and simply be me.”