She always reminds me of that Character in "Center Stage" the bullimic one who was so perfect on the outside with the really pushy mother... She knew all the words to say and all the moves to make to look perfect but she was falling apart on the inside... its only a matter of time before hillary falls apart

Ah, the 'I just cut out dessert brigade' has a new poster girl.

How tiring is it with all these stars talking about [their] weight. Play another record, please.

She was soooo much cuter (and healthier looking) as Lizzie McGuire AND as a blond. The dark hair does nothing for her....

The dark hair thing is cute but it's still weird seeing her with brown hair. Must be a new mature thing or something. I don't think I've ever seen her be too skinny but at least she's aware of how to tell when she is getting obsessed or going into that dangerous zone with her body like so many young girls today to. I think Hilary should have said though she was getting too skiny for her body weight and make and not for someone else like me.

I think she looks good with dark hair, but I do agree she looked better with a little more weight and a fuller face. She's still really pretty though. I wish more celebs would mention exercising as a good way to lose weight. I feel like many of them just talk about dieting and leave out exercise which is just as important.

i think that in terms of other celebs, she's really good about keeping her head on her shoulders. i think it's hard to grow up under the prying eyes and the shower of criticism of the media and the public.

I'm over her.

I'm glad she realized that she was getting obsessive about it. She looks much better at a more normal weight!

I met her in person, with my daughter. She was very sweet, and nice, but she was sooooooo thin, that I had to have a talk about it with my daughter ( who was a huge fan of hers at the time) afterward. I mean, this wasn't " I cut out dessert" thin. This was anorexic thin, and I knew it, because I suffered from ana at one point myself. You could see the bones in her wrist, and she was trembling the way most anorexics do.

Anyway, I like Hilary...she was super sweet to my child, and what mother doesn't like that, hee hee...but I'm disappointed that she isn't being truthful about her weight loss. No one gets as thin as she was by cutting out bread, sorry.

How can you go a whole day without bread? I would go crazy.

Every time i see her "sing" it always look like she lip syncs but she claims to sing live. I dunno if she sings live or not but anyway I think she should be more honest about her weight loss. I like her outfits in the pics though

My daughter and I saw her "live" too, Dulce (didn't actually meet her, tho) and I agree she is waaaaaaaay too thin.

i like this girl. she is mature beyond her years and you have to love how close she is to her fsmily. she looks great. team hilary, even though i like nicole.

u guyz dont give her credit 4 anything..at least shes not a stick like nicole..cmon now

She looks better here, slim but not a stick.. I think she has it under control. At least she admits it was a problem

I think she's a really good role model - no drink problem, drug problem and even through her parents' divorce, she kept going with her company and album. I really admire her.

And despite the weight thing, which was caused by the "Duff Puffs" article when she was doing "The Perfect Man", she's pretty healthy now right?

I'm definitely getting this issue.

Remember that the camera ADDS pounds...if ya'll don't want to believe people who have actually seen her in person...whatever.

i think she got caught up in the hollywood thin patrol thing. its not easy to be a normal sized girl in hollywood. the clothes never fit right and alot of stylists will only work with someone who is thin. its easy to say im going to cut this out and im going to exercise this much. when the weight starts coming off, you start pushing harder and harder. the fact that everyone is saying, wow you look great is the motivation that everything is alright. the fact that she recognized publicly that she had an issue is admirable. while i dont watch her movies or listen to her music, i have always admired her work ethic and her grace. she has fared alot better than some of her other disney counterparts.
why is it harder to believe keith richards didnt snort his father?

She strikes me as pretty grounded

I have a feeling it was more serious than she lets us know.

I love hilary!
She isn't too thin nowadays but she was before and it was pretty scary looking.

I'm glad she is keeping it much more real than most other celebrities her age.

This whole "oh, no ! I don't have an ED", I'm just healthy" is really pissing me off !! Natural eaters don't follow any "diet plan"...the more I read about celebs 'eating habits, the more I realize how much insane they are ...clearly, naming a few "slim" and not "dramtically skinny" is an euphemism. But, yeah, the cosmetic/diet/food industries make millions out of the "flesh" phobia, so here it goes : "You go, girl...on your diet plan !!"

She doesn't look ana thin now. At times she even looks a little plump. She's more muscle now.

At least she isn't like Nicole.

happy to see her not staving herself.. we need some more young hollywood to step up and talk about it.. and how bad it is getting/ has gotten!!

you know I was thinking to... in a magazine like Cosmo Girl Hillary's mom would probobly make sure that they'd photoshop hillary to look perfectly healthy, you know? I mean the photo's (esp the cover) are obviously re-touched, I'd want to see a more current non photo shoot picture of her before we decide that she's a healthy weight or not she's def alot skinnier than LiLo these days...

I don't think its any of our business if she did have an eating disorder. She shared that she got caught up with hollywood, thats all we need to know. She didn't even have to tell us that. Be glad that she is healthy now, you can't live in the past.

..If you see us in the club we'll be acting real nice
if you see us on the floor you'll be watchin all night..

I think it was too obvious that she had an eating disorder but you know thats bad publicity so its just better to say "i cut on bread".... its more real when people admit they have a problem and not giving excuses trying to fool people.

I think she aged herself 10 or 15 years by losing all that weight and doing whatever she did to her teeth and jaw. She's still pretty but now looks really old for what she actually is - a teenage pop/music star.

I think she looked alright when she was thinner and she looks nice now. The whole cutting out foods and watching what you eat is admirable. American are so overweight in general, and we all eat too much. I recently started counting the calories I eat in a day and I was so surprised at how much I eat. It was way over what I was supposed to eat to maintain my weight, not to lose. I'm Asian and I have to eat rice...I love it. Plain white rice...has a crap load of calories...so sometimes, I have to chose between rice and dessert...thats what you have to do.
There is a whole industry out there whose goal is to get you to eat more. I think people judge a slightly under weight person more so than they would judge a slightly overweight person. If you weigh 10 lbs less than your recommended weight...people question if you are anorexic...and scrutinize your eating habits. But if you are 10lbs heavier than your recommended weight, they put you in an ad campaign and call it empowering!

I think she is quite cute. She dresses appropriately too. She is quite mature for her age i think.

NOTHING AGGREVATES ME MORE THAN A CELEBRITY CLAIMING THEY ARE ANOREXIC LOOKING BC THEY "CUT OUT DESSERT" OH PLEASE - YOU STARVED YOURSELF - STOP TREATING YOUR FANS LIKE STUPID PEOPLE -

zillah - I don't like rice much, even though I'm Asian, haha. And actually, if you're 10 pounds heavier in Hollywood, you do get scrutinized.

I never thought I'd say that, but I'm really beginning to like Hilary Duff. I'm not a fan of her music or her movies, but I think she's a good role model for young girls. She's obviously not an anorexic, unlike Nicole Richie, she just decided to eat right. She seems mature and down-to-earth, some Hollywood starles should definitely take some cues from her (right Lindsay???)

i love her. i dont know why. theres something about her. i wish she would go back to being blond.

She definately did have a time where she was too thin, but right now I think she looks healthy, toned, and has a good look on how to be healthy.

Her dark hair looks really nice too.

I don't care anything about her. I just hope she's not dating Barry Zito.

She's cool.

at least she is not there flashing out her parts, getting wasted, doing coke...

There was a time when she looked too thin, but I'm glad she looks like she's gained a bit of weight. She looks fine now, and healthy.

I think if she was "anorexic" she would have had a harder time putting weight back on which she obliviously has done.

People need to remember that there is more to anorexia then just starving yourself. There are soooo many psychological issues which make recovery difficult. She obiviously hasnt had a problem with putting weight and muscle on so I think saying she has an ED is a little over the top

I actually like Hilary. She recently had like a two episode thing on MTV and it made me like her more. She is a hard worker and clearly doesnt get wrapped up in the hoopla that is Hollywood

I think she looks good now. I love the brunette and slimmer Hil. Also it looks like she got her teeth filed down a bit which was a good choice.

All the blonds are going brown (Cameron Diaz, Charlize Theron,,etc). What's the deal with that?

I think she look normal now; not like Nicole Richie before.

She's also just a kid. I think sometimes when we read about these people, we forget that some of them are just kids. Teenagers. And I don't know about y'all, but my weight fluctuated a good bit when I was a teenager. She's growing up, and has to do it with all these eyes on her. That can't be easy at all.

The fact that she can say "there is/was a problem" raises her a couple of points in my eyes at least. There are so many out there who deny there is any problem at all, even when you see hipbones sticking out and ribcages.

A person can get too thin without developing an eating disorder. It's all about body dysmorphia, and listening to her, it doesn't sound like that was the case. She saw that she was too thin and did something about it. The body dysmorphis involved in anorexia and bulimia is that one doesn't see oneself as too thin, one sees oneself as not being thin enough. It's more than just a desire to look thin, it;s actually not seeing yourself as thin and creating a vicious circle because of this.

Hilary is so cute, i love her!

I think she's too thin now but not with respect to her contemporaries - and she isn't as thin as she was when she was with Joel. The way he went straight to Nicole Richie after they broke up, and she put on some much needed lbs always makes me wonder if he used to harrass her about her weight.

It's also funny people saying she's not too thin now because of how she looks in a photo, when really we're comparing her to other people we've only every seen in photos.

I believe the people who've seen her in person.

I didn't believe that camera adding pounds thing until I saw a perfectly thin (4-6) girl look rounded in a photo when she really wasn't. I blame the critics for talking about her weight rather than her work, especially when guys get so much leniency in showbiz - even when they're actually overweight. Suits hide a lot of girth where guys are concerned.

its so sad that female "celebrities" are made to feel that they need to be skinny to be popular and accepted and the pressure that the media put on them. It's strange that the guys don't appear to have the same pressures.
I think she looks great and its refreshing to see her talk to openly about why/how she lost weight and that in the process she did become a little compulsive. Hopefully she is happy and in reality that's all that matters.

Why is it so wrong for Duff to be the size she is when SJP is the same size and we all want to be just like her? Is it an age thing or what? I don't get it.