While appearing on the Mother Daze podcast with Sarah Wright Olsen and Teresa Palmer, Duff, 35, recalled being pregnant with her youngest child when she got a call to star on the spinoff sitcom, How I Met Your Father. In a clip of the conversation shared to Instagram on Thursday, Jan. 5, the actress said she was “extraordinarily” pregnant at the time she received the offer, confirming her belief that babies bring a special touch of luck. “I feel like every time I have a baby like babies bring luck,” the former Disney Channel star told the podcast host and fellow moms, who both seemed to agree with the sentiment. Duff then recalled getting the call to shoot HIMYF when she was just one week away from giving birth to her daughter Mae in March 2021. After her manager called and asked her to have a call with show creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, Duff remembered thinking, “Why do they want to talk to me? I don’t understand—Why am I getting a job right now, like what’s happening?” She then credited the serendipitous moment to her unborn baby, stating, “I think that babies bring like—obviously themselves, which is a wonderful gift—but they’ve always brought me such luck.” Duff now stars on the Hulu series alongside Kim Cattrall, Francia Raisa and Josh Peck as they recreate the same universe from its predecessor show How I Met Your Mother, the hit sitcom starring Josh Radnor, Bob Saget, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders and Alyson Hannigan. After a successful Season 1, HIMYF was renewed for a second season, which is expected to premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, with new episodes released each week on Hulu.
