In 2007, Hilary Duff debuted her new single, “With Love,” accompanied by some awkwardly-executed and elbow-forward choreography, which has unexpectedly haunted her career. Today, Duff can confirm that she felt as uncomfortable doing that dance as she looked performing it, and it took a little while for her to see the humor in it.
Beginning in 2021, Duff’s “With Love” dance began to be affectionately parodied in TikTok recreations, which soon went viral. One of the most popular recreations is from Duff’s Today show performance, which creators imitate in detail, down to the shimmies of the audience. Five years after the viral sensation, Duff admitted to Glamour in her cover interview, “That has not been a fun thing to follow me around.”
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“[I] didn’t want to be there, doing this dance that I probably didn’t want to be doing, and didn’t feel good at the time,” Duff said in her interview with Glamour. “I know people don’t look at it like that, and it’s this funny thing, but that’s how I used to look at it.”
Now, however, Duff is happy to play along. In 2021, Duff herself got in on the trend, and performed her own recreation of the dance for her followers. “So I can stop receiving text about this….” she captioned the vid.