Ashley Tisdale French raised eyebrows earlier this month when she revealed she exited her “poisonous” mother pal group practically 5 years after bonding with the ladies over being pregnant and motherhood.
“Right here I used to be sitting alone one night time after getting my daughter to mattress, pondering, ‘Possibly I’m not cool sufficient?’” Ashley, who shares daughters Jupiter, 4, and Emerson, 16 months, with husband Christopher French, recalled in an essay for New York Magazine‘s The Cut printed on January 1. “Hastily, I used to be in highschool once more, feeling completely misplaced as to what I used to be doing ‘fallacious’ to be disregarded.”
Quickly after Ashley shared her reality — in an essay titled “Breaking Up With My Poisonous Mother Group” — followers began to surprise which associates she had reduce from her life.
Some web theorists puzzled whether or not Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore or Meghan Trainor had been attainable suspects, however TMZ reported on January 5 that Ashley’s rep mentioned there was “zero reality to what on-line ‘detectives’ suppose they’ve cracked” concerning the mother group, claiming the piece wasn’t about these three ladies.
Hilary Duff, Vanessa Hudgens and extra former Disney stars have began households since their youthful years on Disney Channel. Hudgens confirmed by way of her Instagram Tales in July 2024 that she gave beginning to her and her husband Cole Tucker’s first child. “Mother, Dad and child are joyful and wholesome,” Hudgens wrote by way of Instagram on the […]
Scroll down to satisfy Ashley’s superstar mother group — and see who she is seemingly nonetheless associates with now:
Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff’s friendship with Ashley dates again to 2021, when their daughters Mae and Jupiter turned associates shortly after they had been born. Followers had been made conscious of the friendship that July after Duff hosted a baby music playdate and Ashley was one of many company. (Duff shares daughters Banks, 7, Mae, 4, and Townes, 20 months, with husband Matthew Koma and son Luca, 11, with ex-husband Mike Comrie.)
Duff and Ashley continued their friendship for a number of years, occurring a moms’ trip in July 2022 and spending time as a squad as just lately as December 2024. Duff gave the impression to be on good phrases with Ashley in March 2025, commenting on Ashley’s birthday tribute to daughter Jupiter with the message, “Completely happy birthday JuJu.”
Eagle-eyed followers seen in January 2026, nevertheless, that neither Duff nor Ashley observe one another on Instagram anymore. Ashley’s rep, in the meantime, denied that her essay concerning the friendship fallout was written about Duff.
Duff’s involvement within the group was all however confirmed on January 6, nevertheless, when her husband, Matthew Koma, publicly weighed in on French’s essay by way of his Instagram Tales. Sharing a tongue-in-cheek “promotion” of his personal fictional The Reduce article, the musician wrote, “A mother group tell-all by means of a father’s eyes: Once you’re essentially the most self-obsessed tone-deaf individual on earth, different mothers are likely to shift focus to their precise toddlers.”
Koma additional joked, “Learn my new interview with @thecut.”
Mandy Moore
“We had infants on the similar time,” Mandy Moore informed InStyle in Could 2022 of how she joined Hilary Duff’s mother squad that included Ashley. “And [Hilary], being the supermom that she is, fashioned a cool mother membership. In some way, I received invited into it, and it’s the most effective.”
Like Duff and Ashley, Moore welcomed a child, son Gus, in 2021, which bonded the ladies. Whereas Moore wasn’t on the 2022 mother journey that took over social media, she was tagged by a number of ladies as somebody who was missed. (Moore shares sons Gus, 4, and Ozzie, 3, and daughter Lou, 15 months, with husband Taylor Goldsmith.)
Whereas Ashley’s rep denied her “poisonous” mother group feedback in January had been directed at Moore, Ashley is not following the This Is Us alum on social media. Moore, nevertheless, continues to be following the previous Disney Channel star.
Ashley Tisdale received her fairy story ending when she married Christopher French — and issues have solely gotten sweeter. The previous Disney Channel star was smitten with the musician shortly after the twosome had been launched by mutual associates in 2012. Eight months later, they had been engaged. Tisdale wed French in September 2014. Thank You! You […]
Meghan Trainor
Meghan Trainor was a part of Duff’s “cool mother membership” beginning in 2021 after she welcomed her eldest baby, son Riley, now 4. (Trainor additionally shares son Barry, 2, with husband Daryl Sabara.)
“I’ve mother associates🥹 and I like them💖,” the singer captioned a summer time 2022 Instagram put up from a mum or dad journey away, together with snaps with Ashley and Duff.
In line with TMZ, Ashley’s rep denied that Trainor was one of many folks Ashley was referring to in her essay for The Reduce. Observant followers have additionally realized that each Ashley and Trainor nonetheless observe one another on social media.
Janice Gott
Janice Gott, founding father of the Muu breast pump firm, has been a part of Ashley’s mother crew since 2022 after they had been on a ladies’ journey collectively. Gott is the mom of 1 baby, son Teddy.
As of December 2024, they had been nonetheless shut, according to social media. “I want I had extra images with all the chums and like … my husband LOL however the level of this put up is to say there may be nothing like mother associates, or a husband who tells you to stop your profession so you’ll be able to construct the opposite one which’s burning an thought in your mind, after which doing it so you’ll be able to have a pound of caviar on a Thursday morning bc you mentioned so,” Gott captioned a bunch picture after Ashley, Duff, Moore, Trainor and Dalkin all got here out to assist her firm’s occasion.
As of January, Ashley continues to be following Gott on Instagram.
Gaby Dalkin
Chef Gaby Dalkin, who is understood for her cookbook sequence What’s Gaby Cooking, was one of many mothers who took a ladies’ journey in 2022. Dalkin, whose eldest baby, daughter Poppy, was born in 2021, continues to be a part of Duff’s group, in keeping with social media. (Dalkin additionally shares son Finn, born in 2024, together with her husband, Thomas.)
“We’re not common mothers, we’re cool mothers,” Dalkin wrote via Instagram in October 2025 after one other mother journey away, which neither Ashley nor Trainor attended. “Nothing higher than a getaway with zero obligations, nice associates, all of the meals and ALL the mahj.”
Ashley, for her half, is just not following Dalkin on Instagram, however it’s unclear whether or not she ever was.
Amanda Kassar
Whereas Amanda Kassar, the Pilates by Amanda founder, seemingly isn’t a part of Duff’s “cool mother membership,” she is a part of Ashley’s squad. (Kassar is a mom of two.)
The health teacher to the celebrities hung out with Ashley in October 2025 in assist of Ashley’s wellness model Being Frenshe, calling the actress her “pricey pal” via Instagram.
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens has been associates with Ashley since they had been appearing in commercials as children. Their bond strengthened after taking part in rivals in Disney Channel’s Excessive Faculty Musical movie franchise. Nonetheless, as they received older, followers began to surprise the place they stood.
“She’s so superior and one among my finest associates,” Ashley exclusively told Us Weekly in 2019. “What I like about her is that she’s so gifted, and I feel what we share is that we’re actually grounded folks and I feel that that’s vital, particularly with what we do, is to remain grounded.”
After Ashley welcomed her first baby in March 2021, Hudgens was one among her associates that bonded with the infant upon their first assembly. Nonetheless, rumors surfaced in December 2023 that the ladies had been not shut after Ashley was noticeably absent from Hudgens and Cole Tucker’s Mexico wedding ceremony. (Hudgens shares two youngsters with the MLB participant.)
“I haven’t seen her in a very long time,” Ashley confessed in March 2024 throughout an look on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, noting their lives as moms performed a component of their rising distance. “I feel we’re simply — clearly, she’s working, I’m working. I’ve a daughter, so she’s a full-time job.”
