Mandy Moore is reflecting on how some of his friendships have changed since becoming a father.
“Do you feel like you’ve seen friendships take a different turn?” the This is us star, 41, asked the podcaster Cameron Rogers on the Wednesday, January 14, episode of Rogers’ “Conversations with Cam” podcast
Moore continued, “I have friends who have older kids, and I’ve found that the people I’m closest to in my life right now are people who are in the same chapter of their lives as the parents. Like, we have kids the same age. I’ve had to kind of mourn, not the loss of those friendships, but how they’ve changed.”
Rogers assured Moore that it’s natural for mothers with children close together to gravitate toward each other.
Ashley Tisdale French raised eyebrows earlier this month when she revealed she left her “toxic” mom friend group nearly five years after bonding with the women over pregnancy and motherhood. “Here I was sitting alone one night after my daughter went to bed, thinking, ‘Maybe I’m not cool enough?'” Ashley, who shares daughters Jupiter, 4 (…)
“I have friends who have kids the exact same age as mine. I have friends who have older kids… The reality is, you’re going to be more in touch with people who are your exact (kids’) age,” the podcast host said.
Moore admitted that his changing friendships with some of the people in his life had “caught me off guard”.
“I was surprised,” said the actress, who shares sons August, 4, and Oscar, 3, and daughter Louise, 15 months, with husband Taylor Goldsmith.
She explained: “I assumed all these relationships would continue… not that they don’t serve me, but they wouldn’t be the first people I would reach out to right now when I say, ‘Gus has changed his mind seven times about what he wants to be for Halloween.’
Moore has been embroiled in social media speculation about a “toxic” group of mom friends in the last weeks after the actress Ashley Tisdale French wrote an essay earlier this month about how she left a group of mothers who had become bitter.
Ashley Tisdale
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images“I remember being left out of a couple of group uploads, and I knew because Instagram made sure to feed me every Instagram photo and story.” she wrote for New York magazine’s The Cut. “I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing all the ways they seemed to exclude me… I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal. Still, I could feel a growing distance between me and the other members of the group, who didn’t seem to care that I wasn’t around much.”
Although Tisdale French did not name anyone in particular, the Musical Baccalaureate The star has documented playdates with other celebrities in the past, including Moore, Meghan Trainor i Hilary Duffall of them also have young children. (Tisdale French’s rep previously denied that her essay was about the trio.)
During Wednesday’s podcast appearance, Moore touched on the genesis of her celebrity mom group, crediting Duff, 38, with creating it.
“So I think the origin story is having pandemic babies,” Moore said. “Hilary Duff is a very dear friend of mine. She and her husband, matt (comma)they are very close to me and Taylor, my husband. (Duff’s daughter) Mae-Mae was born six weeks after Gus, and she’s the ultimate mom. Now he has four children, but at the time, Mae was the third. She was a boss. She said, “We need a music class.” We need community.’ So she started this music class at her house and she got a bunch of amazing women together, and I brought a few of them, too.”
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Moore continued, “We evolved from the music class to the movement class to hang out. People get together for holidays, people get together for birthdays, we go to the zoo … all the things you do collectively as a group of friends.”
The A ride to remember star also shared a glimpse of the group’s close bond.
Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images“Moms’ chat always pops up with questions, comments, concerns, fun gossip…all the things,” Moore said. “They mean everything. We all went to Ojai (in California) a couple of weeks ago. We spent 24 hours away from our families and celebrated Hilary’s birthday late.”