United Kingdom, March 4 -- Hilary Duff needed a decade "to make peace with" Lizzie McGuire.

The 38-year-old actress rose to fame on the hit Disney Channel sitcom, and she has admitted she struggled to reconcile the character with the woman she was "growing up" to be.

Appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show, she said: "I think it took me like a good 10 years to make peace with like Lizzie McGuire.

"You know, it was, it's weird to like play a character that people fall so in love with that doesn't grow up.

"She stays that age and then I grew up. You know what I mean?

"And so now I'm like obsessed with her and I like get to join the fandom and be excited like everybody else, even though I like was her, but for a while it was a hard thing t...