If only there were a straightforward solution to what currently ails them.
Because a full decade later, the 38-year-old is back with a new album—her Feb. 20 release luck… or something—but no further anecdotes about Haylie’s life with daughters Ryan, 10, and Lulu7.
Instead, she has a disc full of raw, incredibly personal lyrics.
“I just felt really ready to share,” the 38-year-old explained to Glamour of digging deep as she penned much of the album alongside songwriter husband Matthew Butdad to her daughters Banks7, Mae4, and Townes21 months. “One, I wanted to stretch creatively, and two, I wanted to make something that I could connect with people again on the level of who I am now. I felt like people have definitely gone through some of the similar large strokes that I have in the past 10 to 15 years.”
Among the incredibly common themes: Her family drama, Hilary getting into the fallout of her parents Bob Duff and Susan Duff‘s messy 2008 divorce on “The Optimist,” writing, “I wish I could sleep on planes, and that my father would really love me.”
And on “We Don’t Talk,” she appears to delve into her long-rumored rift with Haylie, labeling it an “emotional eviction.”
