Hilary Duff is getting real about the fears she feels in her marriage to Matthew Koma.
“I always think Matt’s going to leave me for some coolio indie songwriter that he works with,” Duff, 38, told Rolling Stone in a profile published Thursday, February 19, when asked about her marriage.
Koma, however, was quick to debunk Duff’s theory.
“Which is so insane,” replied Koma, also 38. “But also very real. Those are real things to get hung up on emotionally.”
Duff and the Winnetka Bowling League musician have been married since 2019 after several years together.
“We got set up through my A&R person, and we ended up hanging for two hours, just talking about music,” the “Mature” singer told the outlet. “Matt sent an email to his manager afterwards and was like, ‘She’s really pretty.’”
Koma, meanwhile, pointed out that he actually wrote, “I want to marry her,” in his email correspondence.
Duff and Koma are parents of daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 20 months. (Duff also shares son Luca, 13, with ex-husband Mike Comrie.)
After welcoming Townes in 2024, Duff returned to the recording studio for the first time in decades with Koma by her side. Koma even cowrote and produced Duff’s upcoming album, Luck … Or something.
“Everyone has a way to tell you how they feel about what you make, and that felt scary,” she told Rolling Stone of her return to music. “I was like, ‘Why would I subject myself to this? We have a happy life and amazing kids.’ But obviously, I miss performing, and I desperately miss having that person be in the forefront.”
According to Duff and Koma, they weren’t trying to make a hit record or one to appease her legions of fans.
“He was like, ‘We just have to make what we think is cool, what you want to listen to in your car,’” Duff said of her husband. “He has a way of boiling everything down and making it super digestible for me. So that was the approach of the record. ‘What keeps me up at night? What are my insecurities?’ The themes are what 10 years has brought on. It was super healing to make something that felt exactly like me, and where I am right now.”
Duff further stressed that she wanted her new album to dig deep into her mindset as she navigates life’s ups and downs.
“It was really important to me to not make a record that was like, ‘I’m a mom and I pick up my kids at school and pack lunches every day and it’s so hard,’” she said. “It was not at all what I was interested in talking about. What I was interested in talking about is the shift in how it makes me feel, as a person.”
In the end, Koma has been in awe of Duff’s musical return.
“‘Mature’ is out today. It’s the first song y’all are hearing from an album my wife made over the last year and a half,” Koma wrote via Instagram in November 2025. “Talk about an exercise in reclaiming what’s yours, giving yourself the license to step into a voice your younger self didn’t get to have, and doing it completely, unapologetically on your terms.”
He concluded at the time, “Ba, I hope the world loves this song, loves your album, and gives you all the flowers you deserve — but I simultaneously don’t really give a f*** what anyone thinks because we got to make something YOU love, that you think is rad, and we got to do it together.”
