Hilary Duff has gone from a baby-faced teen queen to a super-svelte starlet in the public eye. And the actress-singer admits that her weight loss a couple of years ago was motivated by media criticism of her figure.

The 19-year-old “Material Girls” star admitted to the U.K.’s Mail on Sunday that “I did get skinny. I’ve felt that pressure like everyone else in my position. When a newspaper comes out that says ‘Duff Puff — she must have gained 15 pounds’ or something like that, how would any normal person react?”