Sisters Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff’s Ups and Downs Through the Years

Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff’s once-tight sibling bond strained as the pair entered adulthood.

“Absolutely the most lonely part of my existence is not having my sister in my life at the moment,” Hilary said on CBS Mornings in February 2026, confirming the sisters’ long-rumored estrangement. “It’s my truth, and so many people are [also] having this experience. It’s hard because I am me, and people know everything about my life since I was a child. I didn’t necessarily choose that part, but it’s my reality. It was honestly, like, healing to say.”

Haylie, meanwhile, has not publicly addressed the sisters’ supposed falling out. Keep scrolling for a full timeline of Hilary and Haylie’s ups and downs:

1987

Haylie Duff became a big sister in September 1987 when their parents, Susan and Robert Duff, welcomed daughter Hilary Duff.

1993

The Duff family relocated from Houston, Texas, when Hilary was 6 so that she could pursue a career in acting.

“My sister, Haylie [Duff], and I lived with our mother in a big complex as children. There were all child actors, and it was a gated community so we all knew each other,” Hilary Duff told Grazia in 2022. “It was a very safe place and my sister and I were the leaders of the group.”

She continued, “The security always scolded us for making noises and the neighbors complained all the time. So, one day my sister and I hid in the bushes, waited for the attendant to leave the office and covered his golf cart with tampons. When he came back, he pulled them off one by one and we laughed out loud behind the bushes.”

Hilary starred in the likes of Casper Meets Wendy and Lizzie McGuire, while Haylie found success with roles on Seventh Heaven and Napoleon Dynamite. Haylie also made brief cameos on her sibling’s Lizzie McGuire series and its 2003 feature film.

2006

Haylie and Hilary Duff costarred in Material Girls, a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, as sisters and heiresses Ava and Tanzie.

2017

Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff were last photographed together at a launch party for “Worlds WIth Friends 2” in West Hollywood, California.

2021

Four years later, Haylie Duff left California for the sisters’ native Texas.

“I always imagined that I would come back to Texas and raise our family here and things like that,” Haylie told Fox News Digital in 2022, referring to partner Matt Rosenberg and their two daughters. “We imagined it probably more as our girls were going into middle school or that age, but when the [coronavirus] pandemic happened, we just kind of looked at each other, and we were like, ‘Should we? Should we get a little more space and a little fresh air?”

Hilary Duff, for her part, retained her residence in L.A. with her husband, Matthew Koma and their three daughters. (Hilary also shares son Luca with ex Mike Comrie.)

2025

Haylie Duff couldn’t believe it had been 20 years since she worked with sister Hilary Duff in Material Girls.

“Is it 20 years? Wow. That is a movie I feel like my daughters would love,” she told TV Insider in June. “They have not seen that, and I feel they would love that movie.”

When asked about making a Material Girls sequel, Haylie coyly teased, “Never say never.”

“I think we both needed to go and find our own way, but never say never,” she added.

2026

Hilary Duff released her album Luck … Or Something in February with a song called “We Don’t Talk.”

“’Cause we come from the same home, the same blood / A different combination, but the same lock,” she sings. “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, talk about it.”

Hilary later confirmed to CBS Mornings that the single was “definitely” after Haylie Duff and their estrangement — and that she wasn’t sure whether her sister should listen to the track.

“I don’t think that would help. I think I have to just exist as a person on my own and do what I want to do,” Hilary acknowledged to the outlet. “I hope that for everyone, that is where I’m sitting. You have to do what you want to do and you have to do what feels good for you. It’s taken me a lot of time to get there and to live that way and to not care what the noise is going to be around it and just be me.”