Haylie Duff—actress, singer, and older sister of Hilary Duff, was in the spotlight from
an early age.
But after a series of film and TV roles, Haylie hadn't been on screen in a few years.
Here's what Haylie has been up to since her rise to fame and why she was out of the spotlight
for so long.
After launching "Real Girl's Kitchen," a blog documenting her attempts to improve her home
cooking, Haylie Duff leveraged the success of the site into a cookbook, "The Real Girl's
Kitchen," and a reality show.
"The Real Girl's Kitchen," hosted by Duff, debuted on the Cooking Channel in 2014, featuring
recipes inspired by the East Coast and West Coast along with stories about her life.
"I started focusing on eating healthy and eating the things that made me happy.”
The show aired for two seasons, then concluded in 2015.
In 2017, Duff began a children's clothing line, Little Moon Society, inspired by her
two daughters, Lulu and Ryan, whom she shares with her fiancé, entrepreneur Matt Rosenberg.
The clothing line, designed "for the conscientious kid," per the brand's website, features comfortable
apparel meant for playtime.
In 2021, furthering her career in the food industry, Duff teamed up with food brand Mrs.
T's Pierogies to launch Mrs. T's All-Star Moms.
According to a press release, the site is dedicated to moms who, quote, "go above and
beyond for their families every day."
Duff said, "As a mom to two amazing kiddos, I can easily
say it's the most rewarding experience of my life, but it's not always easy.
That's why I'm honored to be teaming up with Mrs. T's Pierogies […] to let the hardworking
moms in our lives know that we see them, appreciate them and love them."
Speaking of hardworking moms, Haylie Duff admitted she primarily stepped back from acting
in order to focus on her children.
Meanwhile, there's been internal pressure for Duff to finally tie the knot with fiancé
Matt Rosenberg; the two got engaged in 2014.
According to Page Six, the couple's older daughter, Ryan, has been inquiring whe n the
big day will actually take place.
In response to questions of whether the birth of her new niece—sister Hilary Duff's baby
girl, Mae—is giving Haylie baby fever, she seemed to have mixed feelings.
She told Hollywood Life, "The truth is that whenever your youngest
baby turns two, some crazy thing goes off inside you, where you're like, 'Oh, I want
another baby.'
But I think we're good at two."
That likely made things a bit easier for Duff.
After all, like for most people, the pandemic put a lot of things on hold for Haylie Duff.
Even though Haylie and Hilary Duff are next-door neighbors in Beverly Hills, the sisters have
kept their families and homes separately quarantined during the pandemic, and Haylie has been busy
homeschooling her daughters.
She told Hollywood Life, "We have different people that we see, so
we've been trying to be very careful about not co-mingling, just for the sake of people
that work in her home or people who work in my home."
As to whether the sisters give each other parenting advice now that they're both seasoned
mothers and neighbors, Haylie told Page Six, "My sister and my mom don't really give a
lot of advice, which is something that's really worked well for us in our family because [...] you
want to sort of do things your way."
It seems clear that, concerning her career, too, Haylie is set on doing things her own
way.
Though she hasn't appeared on screen since 2018 and has been prioritizing family time
lately, Haylie Duff will soon return to the acting world.
She has two projects currently in post-production and scheduled to launch in 2021: "Blending
Christmas" and "The Baby Pact."
In the TV movie "Blending Christmas," Duff plays Emma.
According to IMDb, "Blending Christmas" takes place during the holiday season, and follows
Emma as she discovers that "the resort where she used to spend Christmases with her family
is being redeveloped."
The second of Duff's upcoming projects, "The Baby Pact" is a follow-up to the 2014 flick
"The Wedding Pact," in which Duff played Elizabeth Carter, a woman who made a pact with her friend
to get married if they were both single in ten years.
"The Baby Pact" finds Elizabeth leaving Boston, Massachusetts following a life-changing event—and
one of its promo posters teases that Elizabeth and Mitch's "happily ever after" isn't quite
so sunny after all.
After she spent a number of years away from the limelight, it will be great to see Haylie
Duff back on screen.
Working in the food industry, being a mother and a fiancée, and acting — Haylie Duff
can truly do it all.
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