Hilary Duff want to silence the critics before they even begin.
The Younger actor has revealed she got her seven-month-old daughter's ears pierced and she's proudly showed off the results on social media.
Uploading an adorable picture of her baby to her Instagram Story, it shows the little one now sporting tiny studs in her ears.
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She captioned the post with: "Yes! I pierced her ears today. Can't wait for the internet to call me a child abuser....again. Lesss go."
The 'again' part is referencing how she copped backlash in 2019 for doing the same to one of her other children.
Hilary got Banks' ears pierced and there were people all over the world who thought the girl was way too young to get holes in her earlobes.
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Twitter was awash with comments from fans who begged her not to do that in the future.
Some even claimed what the former Disney star did was 'abusive' because her baby wasn't able to give consent to having her ears done.
Hilary explained after the heat ha died down that she found it really confronting to have her parenting methods and practices challenged on the world stage.
"I'm so used to dodging the comments or the judgment, that I don't realise," she told Yahoo! Life. "Like, you just get a tough skin and you don't realise how much it actually affects you. But it's really frustrating because no matter who you are, your kids are your proudest accomplishment.
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"I don't comment on other people's posts like that, so I don't understand, but I guess it's just a need for attention or whatever.
"It's hard not to take it personal, so I really have to zoom out.
"At first I want to be defensive, but when I zoom out, I'm like, 'It's one person. That's not how everybody feels. That doesn't really matter. That person's, like, a keyboard gangster who just needs to be heard or seen.'"
Now that she's already been through the hate for one child getting their ears pierced there's no doubt she won't listen to the haters this time round.
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Plenty of people have since backed Duff for her decisions, saying they too got their ears done by their parents when they weren't even one year old.
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