Duff began working on numerous projects with the Disney Channel, including the film Cadet Kelly (2002).

She later began work on an album, releasing the Christmas themed Santa Claus Lane (2002) through Walt Disney Records.

But Duff￿, 27, initially resisted the project as it meant moving with her 2-year-old son, Luca, to New York soon after separating from her husband of three years, hockey pro Mike Comrie.

"I didn't think I could do it," she admits, cutting across a ditch and onto a wooded trail.

Everyone respects their relationship.'"[Seinfeld] seems serene, a man whose conscience is as clean as his Nikes.

'When I wasn't involved with Shoshanna and was seeing several women, then it was awkward,' he says. My interest in her is very proper.' Whatever people actually thought about these couplings, there was very little of the media indignation we see today when outlets discuss the relationships (or rumored relationships) between celebrities like, say, 17-year-old Kylie Jenner and 25-year-old Tyga.

Teen actress Hilary Duff is amazed she is still dating Good Charlotte rocker JOEL MADDEN - because she only gave him her telephone number out of politeness when they first met.

The 18-year-old star, who has been dating Madden, 26, for 18 months, even snubbed his phone call that evening, because she had no intention of having a relationship with someone nearly nine years her senior.

Duff said to Cosmo: While we'd forgotten about this mid-aughts love story, as soon as it re-entered our brains, we immediately wondered, "Why didn't more people have a problem with a twentysomething dating a teenager?

I was always concerned with what people would think."Du￿ff was only 14 when . I think everyone should have something where you know it's not exactly what you're looking for but you just have a wicked good time. I'm lucky for the person he is and I am and how we decided to handle this." Wife life was something Duff had long dreamed about. We both really wanted to get married." They said "I do" when Duff was 22.

However, Duff￿ says she doesn't consciously look for roles to spice up her image. That was really hard, to sit down with people and say 'We can't be friends anymore.' They were like 'That's fucked up; you're a bitch.' But having a good reputation was important to me. That was really freeing for me and a bit of an awakening. "I'd been working since the age of 11 or 12, so making that choice at a young age seemed right for me.

When you get to see your baby for the first time, and they put him on your chest, and you're looking into each other's eyes, this feeling just washes over you and there are really no words.

star, now 27, opened up about the public’s perception, and her reality.