Hilary Duff’s husband is weighing in on the toxic mom group drama.
In a now-deleted Instagram story, screenshots of which are circulating widely online, Matthew Koma responded to Ashley Tisdale French’s recent essay for The Cut, in which she recounts her supportive group of mom friends turning into mean girls.
Koma posted a photo of his face digitally imposed onto Tisdale’s body. The original photo features Tisdale French in all black on a white couch and was used for the actress’s essay for The Cut.
Koma included The Cut’s logo and a parody headline, which read “When You’re The Most Self Obsessed Tone Deaf Person On Earth, Other Moms Tend To Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.”
He added a fictional sub-headline that read “A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father’s Eyes” and captioned the Instagram story “Read my new interview with @TheCut.”
Tisdale French left the moms from her former friend group anonymous in her essay, titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group,” and did not name Duff as one of the moms from the group.
She also cautioned “wannabe online sleuths” against trying to identify any of the moms from the group, saying “please, don’t even try — whatever you think is true isn’t even close.”
Representatives for Tisdale, Duff and Koma did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Tisdale French, the "High School Musical" actor and singer who is a mother to two daughters, shared in her now-viral essay that she ended things with her “toxic” mom group after their behavior made her feel like she was back in high school.
After being excluded from hangouts and finding out about them on Instagram, Tisdale French wondered whether her mom friend group had turned toxic.
“Here I was sitting alone one night after getting my daughter to bed, thinking, Maybe I’m not cool enough? All of a sudden, I was in high school again, feeling totally lost as to what I was doing ‘wrong’ to be left out,” she wrote.
Tisdale French ultimately parted ways with the group and wrote that the friendships simply “stopped being healthy and positive.” “To be clear, I have never considered the moms to be bad people. (Maybe one.),” she wrote.
She encouraged other moms to step away from friend groups that take them back to high school, saying she’s not alone in mom friend group drama. “Motherhood has enough challenges without having to wonder if the people around you are on your side,” she wrote.
