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Mandy Moore is setting aside any potential mom group tensions to shower her good friend Hilary Duff with praise.
“Taking a moment to say that my friend is an extraordinary icon queen, giving us everything we needed,” Moore, 41, expressed on her Instagram Stories. She shared snippets from Duff’s intimate Los Angeles concert on Thursday, January 29. “You are a superstar for life!”
Moore followed up with a post highlighting her favorite track, Duff’s new single “Mature.”
She added, “@MatthewKoma [and] @TaylorDawesGoldsmith grooving out,” accompanying a video of their husbands enjoying the concert from the crowd.
The friendship between Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore is truly special. Though they occasionally crossed paths as teenagers in Hollywood, their bond strengthened after both became mothers in 2021. “Hilary is a dear friend, and her daughter is only six weeks younger than Gus,” shared the former “This Is Us” star.
While Moore and Duff, 38, both came of age in Hollywood in the early 2000s, they became especially close after they each welcomed babies in 2021. (Their respective husbands, Goldsmith and Koma, also know one another through the indie music scene.)
“Hilary is the coolest and she is a super-mom. She and Matt have become really close friends with my husband and I,” Moore previously told InStyle in 2021. “They have a kid who’s six weeks younger than [my son] Gus. And so, we had babies at the same time.”
Moore, who shares three children with her husband, subsequently received an invitation from Duff to attend a joint mommy-and-me music class. (Duff and Koma, 38, share three daughters, while the Younger alum is also mom of son Luca, 14, from a past relationship.)
“[Hilary], being the super-mom that she is, formed a cool mom club,” Moore recalled to the outlet. “Somehow, I got invited into it, and it’s the best. I’ve made so many wonderful friends. We all just gathered earlier this week and had dinner and we have baby classes together and it’s incredible. I’m very, very grateful to have those resources and just incredible women to be able to lean on. We’re all kind of going through this chapter of our lives together.”
Their mother’s group, which also included Ashley Tisdale and Meghan Trainor, went viral in early January. Tisdale, 40, published an essay in New York Magazine’s The Cut titled, “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group” that was presumed to be about Duff and Moore’s squad. (Tisdale did not publicly name her former friends in the entirety of the profile.)
“They all feel blindsided and hurt by Ashley speaking out the way she did,” a source close to Duff and Moore exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month. “From their perspective, they believed the group was supportive and coming from a good place, and they never thought there was any bad intent behind how things played out.”
Mandy Moore is reflecting on how some of her friendships have changed since becoming a parent. “Do you feel like you have seen friendships sort of take a different course?” the This Is Us star, 41, asked podcaster Cameron Rogers on the Wednesday, January 14, episode of Rogers’ “Conversations With Cam” podcast. Moore continued, “I […]
The insider added, “The moms insist there was no ‘mean girl’ behavior and say they were genuinely trying to be there for one another during a really vulnerable time in all of their lives.”
While none of the stars have further publicly reacted to the bombshell Cut testimony, Tisdale has since been spotted bonding with Hilary’s older sister, Haylie Duff. Hilary and Haylie, 40, have reportedly been estranged since 2024, which fans even speculated inspired Hilary’s song “We Don’t Talk.”
“Don’t know when it happened / Not even sure what it was about,” Hilary sings. “‘Cause we come from the same home, same blood. / People ask me how you’re doing / I wanna say amazing, but the truth is that I don’t know / What I always end up saying is how … We don’t talk, we don’t talk about it / We don’t talk about anything anymore.”