From People, Hilary Duff on her biggest post-pregnancy challenge:
“The first week I was like, ‘I’m doing this, I’m good. I can not sleep, I can do this.’ I don’t know where you get that energy from. Then it hits you — the fatigue. … So many people were like, ‘Take naps when your baby naps. So I tried and it really helped a lot. I thought when he was napping that was the time I could do all the things I needed to do. It’s a fine balance.”
On her beautiful little baby boy:
“He’s really a good baby, I promise. He sleeps really well and he’s on a good schedule. He sleeps a good five and six hours a night, which is just amazing. I am so grateful.”
On wondering how she ended up with such a sweet child:
“I’m waiting for the tables to turn. I’m like, ‘How do I have this wonderful baby? [My mom] said when I came, she was like, ‘Where can I send you back?’ It was nothing like with [my older sister] Haylie.”
On convincing her husband that baby Luca knows his parents:
“He’s staring at your mouth when you talk to him [and] he laughs a little bit. My husband keeps telling me it’s gas and I’m like, ‘No, he loves us so much, he’s already smiling.’”
On partnering with Johnson’s to help children and their families who are displaced or affected by natural disasters:
“It’s a crazy statistic to learn that 90 percent of American children are living in a high risk area for natural disasters. I can’t imagine what it would feel like being in the thick of that. … It can help so many people just to have these [disaster preparedness] kits ready to be sent out in times of crisis and need.”
On realizing the instant bond of mother and child:
“You don’t realize it, you can’t understand it until it happens. You’re holding your baby and looking at him and your husband and thinking, ‘I would do anything for you.’”
Can we all just tuck this little family up in a hug and love them forever? Because they’re just the best, guys. It’s good to know that there’s some normalcy in Hollywood, and especially from a former—gasp!—Disney star. Here’s lookin’ at you, Lindsay Lohan.