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Hilary Duff reunites with friends for a Mexico trip
Hilary Duff shared photos and videos from a trip with friends in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico.
Mandy Moore, Gaby Dalkin and several others joined her.
The group spent time by the pool, went to a spa and played mahjong.
Duff captioned her post, “The group chat made it to the jungle.”
The trip comes months after Ashley Tisdale French wrote about feeling left out of a celebrity mothers’ friend group, without naming anyone.
Fans linked the essay to Duff, Moore and Dalkin, and Duff later said she felt sad and taken aback by being drawn into the controversy.
The friends have since appeared together at Duff’s concert, and the Mexico trip is another public sign of their continued friendship.
Hilary Duff shared photos from a vacation with Mandy Moore and other friends in Mexico.
Duff captioned the Instagram carousel, “The group chat made it to the jungle.”
The group visited the One&Only Mandarina resort in Riviera Nayarit, where they relaxed, played mahjong and spent time together.
The trip came months after Ashley Tisdale French’s essay about feeling excluded from a celebrity mothers’ friend group drew attention to Duff and her friends.
Duff said on a podcast that she felt sad and taken aback by the essay’s claims.
- Who
- Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, Gaby Dalkin and other friends.
- What
- Duff shared photos and videos from a group vacation in Mexico.
- When
- Duff posted about the trip on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
- Where
- One&Only Mandarina resort in Riviera Nayarit, Mexico.
- Why
- Not stated.
Ashley Tisdale French
Hilary Duff
Exclusion from the group
Ashley Tisdale French
Tisdale French wrote that she was left out of some group gatherings and began to feel frozen out.
Hilary Duff
Duff said the essay’s claims about the group were not true and that she felt sad and taken aback.
The group chat made it to the jungle
It sucks to read something that’s not true, and it sucks on behalf of six women and all of their lives
I told myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a big deal
Turns out we never outgrow sleepovers, we just start calling them girls trips. One for the record books.
Ashley Tisdale French published an essay about feeling excluded from a mothers’ friend group.
Duff discussed the essay and its effect on her in an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
Several of Duff’s friends attended her Los Angeles concert, according to Us Weekly.
Dalkin posted a video of friends lining up poolside before jumping into a pool.
Duff posted a carousel of photos from the group’s Mexico vacation.
- Destination
- Riviera Nayarit, Mexico
- Resort
- One&Only Mandarina
- Instagram caption
- The group chat made it to the jungle
- Trip photo post
- October 10, 2026
- Friends named
- Mandy Moore and Gaby Dalkin











