Hilary Duff on the cover of the April 2015 issue of Cosmopolitan.
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filed for divorce from her husband of nearly five years, former NHL player Mike Comrie, after splitting in 2013. The two share a son.
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She told the magazine, “Mike and I were very in love when we met. We both really wanted to get married. I’d been working since the age of 11 or 12, so making that choice at a young age seemed right for me. Maybe it wasn’t, but we spent the majority of our time together really happy. It wasn’t working well enough to stay together, but there was still a lot of love involved. It was just a slow set-in of us not being the match that we used to be. I’m lucky for the person he is and I am, and how we decided to handle this.”
She added, “I don’t want to sound bitter because I’m definitely not, but I don’t know if people are meant to be together forever. Things happen over a long relationship that you can’t always fight. A marriage of 20 years, the accomplishment of that must feel really great, but there are also huge sacrifices. I just always want to fight for happiness.”
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As for her old beau, Aaron Carter — who last year declared his love for her in a series of tweets, saying he wanted her back after the two dated more than a decade earlier — she had less sensitive words. “It’s ridiculous!” she said. “But then people do it all the time, like Chris Brown and Karrueche? Come on, guys. Keep it between text messages.”
Hilary Duff in Cosmopolitan.Eric Ray Davidson/Cosmopolitan Magazine