Hilary Duff celebrates her body with revealing Women’s Health cover

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Hilary Duff is letting the world see her in her most natural state for her latest magazine spread.On the cover of Women’s Health, the How I Met Your Father actress posed nude, opening up in the mag about how she’s learned to embrace her body over the years.

As someone who has been in the spotlight for so long, Duff admitted the “horrifying” pressure to be a certain size as a young actress on television resulted in her battle with an eating disorder at 17. Now, at 34, she’s gotten to a point where she’s fully accepting her body--regardless of whether it lives up to Hollywood’s standards.“I’m proud of my body,” Hilary told the publication. “I’ve gotten to a place of being peaceful with the changes my body has gone through.”“I think that at 34 I have just gained a lot of respect for my body,” said the mother of three, who has daughters Mae, 13 months, and Banks, 3, and son Luca, 10. “It’s taken me all of the places I need to go.

It’s helped me build a beautiful family. I feel like the older I get, the more confident I get in my own skin. And my body’s been many different shapes and sizes and I’m really just fascinated by, one, being a woman.

And two, all the changes that your body can go through throughout your lifetime.”As for becoming a mom, Duff admitted that she didn’t fully accept her body until she had her daughter Banks, realizing that she was “powerful” by becoming a mom again after going through a divorce. “I do feel lucky in the mental health department where I haven’t had huge hurdles to get over, but just like everyone else I have my issues, my insecurities, pain,” she said.