{"id":43052,"date":"2026-01-15T06:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/mandy-moore-says-motherhood-has-reshaped-her-friendships\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:01:23","slug":"mandy-moore-says-motherhood-has-reshaped-her-friendships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/mandy-moore-says-motherhood-has-reshaped-her-friendships\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandy Moore says motherhood has reshaped her friendships"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69686ee6764ca5f34d2a7c54?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Mandy Moore.\"\/><figcaption>Mandy Moore says becoming a mom has changed the friends she feels the closest to.<\/p>\n<p>Monica Schipper\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandy Moore, 41, says her friendships have evolved ever since she became a mom.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I&#039;ve had to sort of mourn in a way, not the loss of those friendships, but like how they&#039;ve changed,&quot; Moore said.<\/li>\n<li>She said she has naturally grown closer to friends who are also parents of young children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mandy Moore, 41, says motherhood changed the friendships she leaned on the most.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Wednesday&#039;s episode of the &quot;Conversations with Cam&quot; podcast, Moore spoke about adjusting to how her relationships have changed as people enter different chapters of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Do you feel like you have seen a friendship sort of take a different course? Like, I have friends who have kids that are older, let&#039;s say,&quot; Moore told host Cameron Rogers. &quot;And I have found that the people I am closest with in my life right now are people who are kind of at the same chapter of their lives as parents, like we have kids the same age.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;ve had to sort of mourn in a way, not the loss of those friendships, but like how they&#039;ve changed,&quot; Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers said she&#039;s experienced similar changes in her own friendships but tries not to take it personally.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And I also think that the most important thing is giving everyone grace,&quot; Rogers said. &quot;Because, you know, I&#039;m not included in everything by certain people who are in different stages, and that&#039;s also OK.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Moore and her husband, Taylor Goldsmith, have three children: Gus, Ozzie, and Lou.<\/p>\n<p>The singer said she was caught &quot;off guard&quot; by how some of her friendships evolved, but acknowledged that motherhood has changed who she instinctively turns to for support.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#039;ve been surprised by it,&quot; Moore said, adding that she had assumed that all of her relationships would continue in the same way.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They wouldn&#039;t be the first people I would reach out to right now when I&#039;m like, ugh, Gus has changed his mind seven times about what he wants to be for Halloween,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Moore said she ultimately formed a close-knit group of friends who were also raising young children during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>One of the central figures in that group, Moore said, was longtime friend Hilary Duff, who took the lead in organizing those early meetups.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;She sort of started this music class at her house and like, gathered a group of incredible women, and I brought a few into the fold as well,&quot; Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the group grew closer and began to spend time together more informally.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;People get together for holidays, people get together for birthdays. We go to the zoo. You know, it&#039;s like just all the things you do collectively as like, a friend group,&quot; Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>The group became a source of connection and support, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The mom chat is always like popping off with questions, comments, concerns, fun gossip, all the things, you know. And so they mean everything,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Moore has previously spoken about the role her mom friends play in her life.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2021 interview with InStyle, Moore said she&#039;s &quot;made so many wonderful friends&quot; through the group that grew out of her friendship with Duff.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s so much fun. I&#039;m very, very grateful to have those resources and just incredible women to be able to lean on. We&#039;re all kind of going through this chapter of our lives together,&quot; Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Moore told People in 2025 that she appreciates how she&#039;s able to lean on the friendships that she&#039;s made after becoming a mom.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#039;s just something about the collective chaos that parents endure together that makes them especially equipped to handle anything,&quot; Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandy Moore says becoming a mom has changed the friends she feels the closest to. Monica Schipper\/Getty Images Mandy Moore, 41, says her friendships have evolved ever since she became a mom. &quot;I&#039;ve had to sort of mourn in a way, not the loss of those friendships, but like how they&#039;ve changed,&quot; Moore said. 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