Hilary Duff admitted she had some qualms about writing her children’s books.
The actress, who shared that her daughter Banks gave her a very adult birthday card recently, was promoting her latest offering My Little Sweet Boy on The Drew Barrymore Show for the episode airing Monday.
The talk show host told her guest she was a big fan of her books.
‘I’m still not feeling like a writer but I do really enjoy writing,’ the How I Met Your Father star admitted.
‘It’s such a vulnerable place. And it’s hard to sit down and get into the zone and do it. Especially with motherhood, sitting down to write feels like a selfish moment,’ she said.
Hilary is mom to son Luca, 11, from her first marriage to Mike Comrie. She shares Banks, five, and Mae, two, with her husband Matthew Koma.
Learning: Hilary Duff admitted she had some qualms about writing her children’s books. The actress was promoting her latest offering My Little Sweet Boy on The Drew Barrymore Show for the episode airing Monday
Selfish guilt: Duff opened up to host Barrymore on the couch
The author’s first book, My Little Brave Girl, was written when the busy actress was going back to work, leaving her four-month-old daughter at home.
My Sweet Little Boy is a look back at her experience with Luca when she was a first-time mother at age 25.
‘I figured out how to be a mom. I knew absolutely nothing,’ she admitted.
‘I had not a friend that had a child. It’s so scary,’ the Meet Your Tooth Fairy actress recalled.
‘But I will tell you that Luca looks back now, because he’s old enough, and he sees how I do things with the girls and he’s like, “It wasn’t like that with me,” and I’m like, “I’m sorry.”‘
Seeing as both Drew and Hilary spent so much of their childhoods in front of a camera, they bonded over what it was like for them to be rejected from a job at such a young age.
‘That’s a little harder when you have a public job,’ Hilary said of her experience.
Vulnerable: ‘It’s such a vulnerable place, the 36-year-old said about the writing process. ‘And it’s hard to sit down and get into the zone and do it. Especially with motherhood, sitting down to write feels like a selfish moment,’ she said
‘There’s been so many times when I felt like a loser or I didn’t get the job or I’d been like sitting stagnant.
‘I had to fill my life with things that were real and that was enough at that moment.’
Drew agreed but also found a silver lining, explaining, ‘I appreciated what it gave to me which was thinking there was enough room for everyone and that being competitive was unnecessary because there really is enough room for everybody.’
The ET: The Extra Terrestrial star also said she would never list the parts she didn’t get ‘because I don’t want the person who ended up doing it to feel weird.’
Latest release: Hilary’s latest book, My Little Sweet Boy, was release November 7
Different: The actress shares two daughters with her husband Matt Koma. ‘Luca looks back now, because he’s old enough, and he sees how I do things with the girls and he’s like, “It wasn’t like that with me,” and I’m like, “I’m sorry,”‘ she told Drew
The Younger alum, 36, wore an ankle-length lemon yellow skirt that fell in long strips from the bottom of her derriere to the bottom of the skirt.
She paired the unique skirt with a thick cream sweater and nude heels.
The Lizzy McGuire actress wore her blonde hair in loose, beachy waves and accessorized with a chunky gold charm necklace.
Drew, 48, was styled in a rust toned sweater with brown plaid pants and high heel loafers.
She wore her titan locks in loose layers.
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