Hilary Duff Admits Balancing Time with Her Kids After Welcoming Baby Townes Is 'So Complicated': 'Very Tired'

Hilary Duff is getting candid about what it's been like transitioning from three kids to four kids.

Posting a few photos on her Instagram Stories, the Lizzie McGuire alum, 36, admitted that it's been hard to find time with all of her kids after welcoming her baby daughter Townes in May.

In one photo, Duff showed herself breastfeeding Townes. "Never want to forget this and also the amount of time it takes is so complicated with so many other kids," Duff wrote over the photo.

Another black-and-white photo showed Duff and Townes snuggling in bed together. "I was very tired here. Because this s--- is hard," she wrote.

Later that night, Duff posted a photo of her crying baby on her Stories. "Just so it doesn't all look great...it's a s--- ton of this too 😞."

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The star shares daughters Townes, Mae James, 3, and Banks Violet, 5, with her husband Matthew Koma. She is also mom to son Luca Cruz, 12, whom she shares with ex-husband Mike Comrie.

This past May, Duff announced on Instagram that she had welcomed her fourth baby. Sharing photos from Little Plum Photography of her home water birth, the actress took a moment to honor her newborn daughter in her caption.

"Townes Meadow Bair 🧸 , now we know why she made us wait so long…She was perfecting those Cheeks!" Duff wrote. "I Have been dreaming of holding you in my arms for months and the past 5 days of getting to know you, stare at you and smell you has been pure moments of magic."

"We all love you like you’ve been here all along beauty. 5/3/24," the newly minted mom of four wrote in her caption.

Since welcoming her daughter, Duff has been candid about her transition, sharing a photo on her Instagram Stories of herself in a car as she breastfed her newborn daughter Townes. Wearing a striped shirt and a gold chain, Duff's daughter's leg and hand could be seen while her head was out of frame.

"When you have two kids graduating your nursing station is your car," Duff wrote over the photo of herself.