Beef appears slightly completely different as of late for some former teen actors from the early 2000s.
Along with the return of low rise denims and trucker hats, the world also can now experience what seems to be drama between two former Disney channel stars.
It all publicly began when The Cut published a personal essay from actress Ashley Tisdale final week titled “Breaking Up With My Toxic Mom Group.”
The star, identified for her work on “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” and the “High School Musical” franchise, wrote about how she and some pals had shaped a bunch chat to speak about being new mothers, in spite of everything being “pregnant through the early pandemic” and lacking out “on the activities where you meet other expectant mothers.”
Through the chat and the playdates it spawned, Tisdale initially believed she had discovered her “village,” she wrote. At some level, she “began to wonder whether that was really true.”
“I remember being left out of a couple of group hangs, and I knew about them because Instagram made sure it fed me every single photo and Instagram Story,” she wrote. “Another time, at one of the mom’s dinner parties, I realized where I sat with her — which was at the end of the table, far from the rest of the women. I was starting to feel frozen out of the group, noticing every way that they seemed to exclude me.”
She recalled different occasions being omitted and feeling distanced from the group, all of which made her surprise “Why me?”
“The truth is, I don’t know and I probably never will. What I do know is that it took me back to an unpleasant but familiar feeling I thought I’d left behind years ago,” she wrote. “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.”
Quicker than you possibly can say “MomTok” (which has its own drama), web sleuths rapidly deduced by combing social media that mentioned mom group included fellow actresses and baby stars Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore as well as some other high profile women living in Los Angeles.
Then Duff’s husband, singer/songwriter Matthew Koma, metaphorically entered the chat.
On Tuesday, Koma took to Instagram tales to submit a photograph of himself made to seem like Tisdale’s photograph in her Cut essay utilizing the outlet’s emblem and a faux headline studying “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 subheadline that learn “A Mom Group Tell All Through A Father’s Eyes” and included as a caption “Read my new interview with @TheCut.”
Duff, who starred in Disney Channel’s hit sequence “Lizzie McGuire” as a teen, married Koma, who’s within the band Winnetka Bowling League, in 2019 and they’re the mother and father of three younger daughters.
She additionally shares a son along with her ex-husband Mike Comrie.
Tisdale’s essay for The Cut just isn’t her first on the topic to go viral.
In December 2025, a post on her blog headlined “You’re Allowed to Leave Your Mom Group” beneath her married title, Ashley French, stirred dialog on social media.
NCS has reached out to reps for Tisdale, Duff, Koma and Moore for remark.