Hilary Duff shares the real story of her "post-baby-body debut"

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Sara McGinnis

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Hilary Duff has a thing or two to say about both losing the baby weight and what it's like to find you've unknowingly made a "post-baby-body debut."

"The second I had Luca, I went to go get my hair blown out at the salon, and I hadn't stepped outside in, like, 15 days," the songstress and mother of a 2-year-old sweetie recently explained to Health magazine.

"I was learning how to be a new mom, and I needed to go get my hair done. Then they're like, 'Hilary Debuts Her Post-Baby Body!' I was like, I'm not debuting s--t right now. I'm just going on an errand run! There is way too much pressure on women these days. It took me a whole 10 months to build a baby."

Opening up about her long journey to shed the weight she gained while pregnant with Luca, Hilary Duff shared, "Oh my God, everyone was so hard on me because it took me a year and a half to get my body back!"

The pressure felt all too familiar to the former Disney darling.

"When I was 17, I weighed, like, 98 pounds," she confessed. "I was totally obsessed with everything I put in my mouth. I was way too skinny. Not cute. And my body wasn't that healthy—my hands would cramp up a lot because I wasn't getting the nutrition I needed. That constant pressure of wanting something different than I had? I regret that.

"I feel like there was way too much time spent thinking about that. This is the body that I have. I have a very athletic build, and I am so proud of what my body has done for me. I had the best, healthiest, strongest pregnancy. And I feel good about myself. But I feel like I'm always in a 5-pound battle, because being 5 feet 2, everything is going to show on me!"

Sounds to me like Hilary Duff has come a long way in how she thinks about her body.

I, too, am at a point in my life where I'm able to overlook my physical 'imperfections' more easily and be thankful for the strength I do possess. Part of the change in thinking came through pregnancy and being a mom, but I think age has played an even bigger factor for me. How I look is just not as important to me in my 30s as it was in my 20s or teens, and I'm loving caring less.

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