Duff still a role model as her music, acting grow up

Hilary gave a little phone interview. Click here to see whole interview.

Here's a little part of that interview:

"(...) Duff takes a swipe at the Hiltons of the world in the title song of her album, singing, "It's all about you, we got it . . . Check that phone, there's a club to close / Where's your dignity?"

"It's not just celebrities, it's other people who have a lot of money and think thatthey are entitled or should be treated better," Duff said in a recent phone interview.

Duff said she works hard to stay out of the eye of the paparazzi who stalk celebrities for photos of their private lives.

"I try to stay away from it, but it's not completely possible," she said. "You have to live your life. They all know where I live, so on weekends they'll be up by my house.

"It can be embarrassing. I don't want to worry about the way I look all the time."
Whether she likes it or not, the Houston-born Duff knows many young women and their parents look up to her due to her clean image. At times, she's let those high expectations get to her.

"I went through a period of about a year where I was very scared to mess up or do anything wrong," she said. "I want to grow as a person, and I want to make mistakes. I'm human, too. So I think I've gotten to a place where . . . I'm really being myself."

Her clothing line is designed to let women be themselves.

"You don't want to dress to impress a certain guy," she said. "We can be so insecure, and we should accept our flaws and love ourselves."

Duff is putting her on-screen star power to the test with War, Inc., a political satire expected to premiere in the fall. The film takes place in a fictional war-torn country where Americans try to profit from the misery.

"We're totally Americanizing this place," Duff said. "We come in acting like we're the heroes and trick them.

"My character is an eastern European pop star, and she's super-cheesy (in) the way she acts and dances - kind of overtly sexual, but she's like a child. She doesn't come off as a good person."

Duff enjoyed portraying a character that is so different and sees the movie as a turning point.

"I'm not saying that I don't want to do movies that are more for everyone . . . but it's fun to get out and do something totally different."