Hilary Duff Talks Hollywood Pressure & Staying Slim Through Pilates

"Lizzie McGuire" put Hilary Duff on the map. In other words, Duff was Hannah Montana before "Hannah Montana."
Now, at age 20, Hilary is all grown up and secure in her body image, after years of dealing with weight issues. From "thin Lizzie" to "just right Hilary," she revealed her secret to Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos."In Hollywood there's a lot of pressure, at least in the weight category. How do you deal with that?" Maria asked Hilary.
"They said things before, you know like, 'Oh my gosh! She's gained weight!' And then I lose weight and then it's, 'Oh my god, she has lost too much weight!'"
The fluctuating frame of Hilary Duff has been a surprisingly hot topic for the past two years or so.
"I think that when you just laugh about it and you don't let it effect you " it's easier said then done, definitely, because it hurts your feelings and it gets to you, and we're just human," Hilary said.

At 20, Hilary is now physically fully mature and at a comfortable weight on the cover of the latest issue of Cosmopolitan. Like the rest of us though, Hilary has to hit the gym.

"I work with a Pilates trainer," Hilary revealed. "I am so bad at exercising outside of Pilates. It's just not fun, it's like I just can't make myself go."

After bursting on to the scene as Lizzie McGuire at just 13-years-old, doing the singing and the fashion line thing, and surviving a not-so-nice breakup with Joel Madden, Hilary has remained seemingly unaffected.

"You are so young, how do you keep such a level head about everything?" Maria asked Hilary.

"I think that it has to do with people that I surround myself with and keeping a focus on what is important to me," Hilary said. "I think I am a pretty normal person outside of my not-so-normal job and I love everything I do."

In Hilary's newest endeavor, she's shedding her good girl image for a rebellious one in indie drama "Greta," but even on set, the scrutiny is relentless.

During the filming of a scene for "Greta," the paparazzi photographed the star as she walked into the ocean fully clothed. They later reported that she nearly drowned.

"My mom called me she is like, 'Are you OK? Are they taking care of you out there?' [I'm] like 'Yeah!' and she was like, 'Supposedly you can't swim and like two guys had to save you in the water,'" Hilary recounted.

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ALLEN'S BOOING PHOBIA

British singer LILY ALLEN has a phobia of getting booed on stage - believing she is the "uncoolest" person on earth. The Smile hitmaker, 22, has never actually been booed on stage, and puts her bizarre paranoia down to growing up in the shadow of her famous father, actor Keith Allen.
She says, "I actually do really believe that people hate me and whenever someone introduces me on stage and they go, 'Now, Lilly Allen,' I wait for people to start booing.
"I think I'm possibly the uncoolest, naffest person ever to walk the earth.
I've felt like that since I was a kid. It's less so now but I do definitely get that feeling specifically when people introduce me.
"I grew up my whole life in my father's shadow. I wanted to be Lily Allen, not just Keith's daughter."

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EVA MENDES STRIPS OFF TO PROTEST FUR

Actress <----EVA MENDES has joined animal lovers like PAMELA ANDERSON and ALICIA SILVERSTONE------->
by becoming the latest star to pose nude in protest at the fur trade.
The Hitch star was approached by People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) after she was photographed wearing a real fur wrap - and was so inspired by their cause, she agreed to bare all for one of their anti-fur advertisements.
Mendes, 32, says, "PETA wrote me a beautiful letter commenting on my less-than-educated choice. I was so impressed I vowed to never wear real fur again."


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PARIS BACK ON STAVROS' TRAIL

Paris Hilton desperately wants her ex, Stavros Niarchos, back, say sources who have followed her antics in Miami this week.

The former lovers, who are in South Beach for the annual Art Basel festivities, provided a traveling sideshow as Hilton spent the week trailing Niarchos from spot to spot trying to get his attention.

Hilton first ran into him at Mansion Wednesday night, where he was paid to host the official Art Basel kickoff party. When the Greek shipping heir showed up with Brandon Davis' ex-girlfriend, Caroline Vreeland, however, Hilton was not pleased.

"Paris beelined for Stavros, but he was chatting up Caroline," said our source. "He was completely ignoring Paris, and she was furious. She shot them evil looks and finally stormed up to them and started screaming at Caroline."

On Thursday, the celebutard followed Niarchos to three different clubs. One partygoer at Mokai, where the rich kids started their night, told us, "Paris saw that Stavros was with a girl, and she went crazy. She literally stood on Stavros' table and began screaming at him. Then she started dancing and trying to get his attention."

The insider said that when Stavros and his date left Mokai and moved on to Set, Hilton followed: "Paris went to great lengths trying to get Stavros' date kicked out, begging club security to get rid of the girl." Our witness even claimed, "Paris was so furious, she ended up walking up to the girl and just punched her."

But a rep for Hilton called that account baloney: "Paris was at both clubs but at no time physically struck anyone. These accusations are completely false."

Meanwhile, the art fair is in full swing and Miami is in gridlock. "The city was unprepared," a limo driver said. "Everyone brought an entourage with them this year and the traffic is impossible. It takes forever to get from one end of town to another."

Every hotel on South Beach held a party Thursday night. The Ultimate Fighting Championship debuted its "Octagon" book (which sells for $2,500) at the Setai with Mandy Moore. Agent Provocateur held a party at the Florida Room in the Delano where models in lingerie ate fire and twisted themselves into precarious positions.

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Keira Knightley Shows Her Bangs

Keira Knightley is showing off the effects of her latest trip to the salon.

Looking a little bit ‘ballerina-like,’ the “Pirates of the Caribbean” showed up at the premiere of her new film “Atonement” last night in Beverly Hills, California. She wore a Rodarte dress and some fun two-tone high heels.

Knightley is quickly becoming a new style icon for the up-and-coming generation. In the latest issue of “Interview,” the British babe appears in a seductive photo shoot, showing off her curves.

It’s a 1940’s pin-up-style layout, and apparently her tendency for near-nakedness is a point of joking among her friends. She told press, “My friends actually have bets on whether I can do a photoshoot and keep my clothes on – and I can’t at the moment. I find it vaguely liberating. You will probably see pictures of me soon walking down the street naked.”

Lindsay party pal contest

Why'd Lindsay Lohan sniffle and snooze her way through Monday morning's Today show interview? Because she was up all night with some friends, blowing rails off her Ouija board and playing round after round of Girl Talk. Duh. Page Six reports that Lohan's Sunday night posse included a couple of friends, her assistant, and a Conde Nast staffer.

For whatever reason, Page Six doesn't give us a name -- but we refuse to let the Conde Staffer remain anonymous. Why shouldn't his or her identity be revealed? Clearly they're the hardest working individual in 4 Times Square, willing to go the distance to secure access to Hollywood's best cover girls. And for that, they should be promoted!

So let's name names. You email us your guesses for the staffer, we do the confirmation, and you win a prize. A mirror, a straw, a gram, whatever. You'll be rewarded, we can promise you that much. Come forward and do this person a favor, so that this excellent employee gets the credit he or she so very much deserves.

christina aguilera

Christina Aguilera finally got to meet her idol Etta James and guess what she talked to her about…
“Oh, boy. I did. We did a photo shoot together for In Style actually ran a spread on you know, you and your current artist and their - and their icon. And for her - or for me, she’s always been that person, that favorite singer, that amazing vocalist that I’d always looked up to.

And when we sat down together, I was so nervous, because you never know, you know, who’s going to have maybe an ego or who’s going to be you know, kind of weird or you know, what goes on because every artist is different, but she was so down to earth and so real. And it was so refreshing and so nice to sit down with someone that you admire so much and then their personality just exceeds your expectations. And she was completely that for me.

She - oh, my God, she was just telling me that actually that - she called me an old soul and said that my voice actually reminded her of almost a Janis Joplin to a Dinah Washington and having that old soul - you know, so complimentary. I mean she made my life with her compliments and the things that she had to say. But you know, she also said you know, don’t pay attention to any of the negativity out there. You keep doing what you’re doing and don’t care what other people think. She’s like, because every time that you stand up for what you believe in - and these words will stick with me forever - every time you stand up for what you believe in, you’re sticking up for so many artists before you that never had that opportunity or that chance to

speak up for themselves. So, it’s a really stand up thing what you’re doing, but - because I always do try and voice my opinions of you know, where my headspace is at, what I’m thinking in general and I think a lot of artists shy away from that because they’re afraid of what other people might think of them. And it was just so inspiring to hear that, not only from another woman, but a woman that, you know, lived at a time whenever artists didn’t have any say-so over anything. And to hear that from her mouth and say that she was proud of me for doing what I’m doing, was such a huge compliment. It will stick with me forever. And we had such an amazing time on that shoot. We actually got to sing together and - amazing woman. Can’t say enough about her.”

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