Hilary Duff reveals she started her music career as she 'didn't want to' be linked to Lizzie McGuire
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Hilary Duff has let out her secret about her singing career and the motivation behind her move in a recent podcast show. Talking with her co-star from ‘How I Met Your Father’ star Josh Peck, she said “she didn’t want to” be linked with her teenage character Lizzie McGuire, from Disney. Though the series made her famous it did bother her for a while to be called Lizzie wherever she would go, "I, at the time, wanted to start singing, and [Disney was] not super on board. They didn't want to sign me right away at Hollywood Records, and obviously, that was the first place that we decided to go."
The 35-year-old actress-singer told during Josh Peck’s Good Guys podcast that the father-son duo of executives, Rob Cavallo and Bob Cavallo, gave her the first break as a singer, "They jumped on board, and then I started making a record."
Duff, was soon admired for her popular album Metamorphosis, which comprised the hit "Come Clean") in August 2003. The show Lizzie McGuire was about to end when the album made it big, "So, it wasn't like they were like, 'Let's just juice this for what we can.' It was my idea. I wanted to sing. I really didn't want to be Lizzie McGuire anymore." On her anxiety that only she would end up as Lizzie she remembered, "For so long, people were just like, 'Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie' — and still now to this day, which doesn't bother me anymore, but it did for a while," said Duff.
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'Desperately needed to be my own person'
"I just desperately needed to be my own person, and I think that I thought music was going to be a good way to reintroduce myself, and it was." On her fans back then, Duff added, "I would say that was five years of my life, just trying to navigate becoming a person that I wanted to be outside of who everybody wanted me to be. I remember being on tour and having mothers come up to me and be like, 'Never change! Whatever you do, just never, never, never change!'"
'Metamorphosis' was Hilary Duff's breakthrough album
Highly celebrated Metamorphosis ended up as Number 1 on the Billboard 200 and managed to sell three million copies in the US, according to People. Duff followed it with a self-titled album in 2004, 2005’s ‘Most Wanted’, and 2007’s ‘Dignity’ before taking a break from music. She came back with ‘Breathe In. Breathe Out’ in 2015, which made it to Number 5 on the Billboard 200.