Hilary Duff looks stunning in her underwear on the cover of a new magazine!

Hilary Duff, a former child star, bares it all in a n-de photo session for Women’s Health’s May-June cover.

Hilary has three children: Luca, 10, from her previous marriage to Mike Comrie, and Banks, three, and Mae, one, from her current marriage to Matthew Koma.

The actress struggled to live up to Hollywood’s expectations of what a woman’s body should look like when her body changed as a result of her pregnancy.

She is, however, breaking the rules and embracing her figure for what it is: gorgeous.

⚡️ @HilaryDuff spent years trying to live up to Hollywood’s standards. Now, as she poses for the May cover of Women’s Health’s Body Reflections issue, she’s approaching her life and career on her own terms: https://t.co/q25q0y1iCE pic.twitter.com/x8Mta1tAB4

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“I’m proud of my body,” she said of her decision to strip down. “I’m proud that it’s produced three children for me. I’ve gotten to a place of being peaceful with the changes my body has gone through.”

“I also want people to know a makeup artist was there putting glow all over my body and someone put me in the most flattering position,” she continued.

But, @HilaryDuff adds, “I also want people to know a makeup artist was there putting glow all over my body and someone put me in the most flattering position.” pic.twitter.com/pcojwtnYbL

— Women’s Health (@WomensHealthMag) May 10, 2022

Duff originally gained fame as a teen idol in the film “Lizzie McGuire” (a television series that aired from 2001 to 2004, as well as a 2003 movie). She went on to feature in rom-coms and family flicks like “Cheaper by the Dozen” and “A Cinderella Story,” as well as a singing career and a well documented teen love triangle with rapper Aaron Carter and actress Lindsay Lohan. While Lohan and other stars of the time were portrayed in the media as wild, Duff’s public image was more grounded.

“It was a conscious choice not to be angsty and try to shift people’s opinions on who I am. That doesn’t mean I didn’t want to try!,” she told Women’s Health. “It would be dumb of me to not know that I have a sweet spot playing that relatable girl. I am that girl.”

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Duff highlighted what she likes most about her body in the magazine’s “Body Scan” video, saying, “I think that, at 34, I have just gained a lot of respect for my body. It’s taken me all the places I need to go. It’s helped me build a beautiful family. I feel like the older I get, the more confident I get in my own skin… I’m really just fascinated by one, being a woman. And two, all the changes that your body can go through throughout your lifetime.”

She admitted to having an eating disorder when she was 17 years old. “Because of my career path, I can’t help but be like, ‘I am on camera and actresses are skinny,” she explained. She’s in a better position with her body now that she’s had three children and gotten another tattoo (a “mother” tattoo on her neck, in addition to flowers and swallows on her arms), she added.

She was able to make peace with her body after the birth of her second kid. ““I didn’t even know if I was going to have the opportunity to have another child [after divorcing Mike Comrie in 2016],” she shares. “So, being a mom again, maybe. It was a whole mix of things—of being settled and realizing that I’m powerful and talented and smart. All mental things.”

Duff places a specific focus on mental health and says it’s a lesson she’s attempting to instill in her children as well. “But I want to work on the inside. That’s the most important part of the system.”

Duff also said that she tried to resuscitate “Lizzie McGuire” in a Disney+ series about an adult version of the character, but it was canceled due to creative disagreements in December 2020. “I’d be doing a disservice to everyone by limiting the realities of a 30-year-old’s journey to live under the ceiling of a PG rating,” Duff said on Instagram, pleading for Disney to screen the revival on Hulu.

“She had to be 30 years old doing 30-year-old things,” she tells Women’s Health of her beloved character. “She didn’t need to be doing bong rips and having one-night stands all the time, but it had to be authentic. I think they got spooked.”

Photographer Daniella Midenge captured Hilary’s portrait, and the summer edition examines the monumental shift in how women communicate about their bodies—both internally and externally—featuring remarkable people on body image, strength, and the power of vulnerability.

Liz Plosser, editor-in-chief of Women’s Health, commended Hilary in her monthly editor’s letter. “I dreamed of working with a cover star who would embrace the vulnerable experience of presenting herself exactly as she is,” she wrote. “Hilary Duff looks incredibly strong and stunning. And as she shares, she works at it, sweating with a trainer. But I think the glowing ‘this is me’ vibe she exudes is more about her mindset at her photo shoot, plus how she settled in and shone under the California sun.”