Millennials Found A Friend In Lizzie McGuire In The 2000s — And Now Hilary Duff Is Returning Right On Time

Fans of the former Disney star are ecstatic that their tween role model is back with a new album and on tour.

I looked in the mirror and redid my space buns again. I was wearing a shimmery pink and gold dress with sneakers, and my wallet was stuffed with packets of fruit snacks. My friend wanted to line up five hours early for Hilary Duff’s show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. The queue had technically started at 3 a.m. the night before, but it was still manageable once we arrived.

This was Duff’s Small Rooms, Big Nerves tour, traveling only to London, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Hundreds of thousands of fans fought for tickets.

Duff’s first album in over a decade, “Luck… or Something,” debuted Friday. The title “hits a lot of questions that I get asked a lot. ‘How are you the normal one? And how did you escape all of these childhood stardom things?’ And I can give certain things credit, or I can also give myself credit,” Duff told Variety.

Fans like me found a friend in Duff’s beloved Disney Channel character, Lizzie McGuire, in the 2000s. But it wasn’t Lizzie who chose to step into pop music as a teen (well, except for that one time in “The Lizzie McGuire Movie”). It was Duff. And it’s Duff, now, who is coming back to music at the perfect time.

“It feels like my old self and my new self blended together,” Duff says about creating her new album, in an adorable Billboard video where her son interviews her.