Hilary Duff on Life After Divorce: 'I Don't Know if People Are Meant to Be Together Forever'

Hilary Duff looks smokin’ hot in short shorts and a tight jacket on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine’s April 2015 issue, on newsstands March 10.

Here’s what the 27-year-old Younger star had to share with the mag:

On her ex Mike Comrie: “Mike and I were very in love when we met. We both really wanted to get married. I’d been working since the age of 11 or 12, so making that choice at a young age seemed right for me. Maybe it wasn’t, but we spent the majority of our time together really happy. It wasn’t working well enough to stay together, but there was still a lot of love involved. It was just a slow set-in of us not being the match that we used to be. I’m lucky for the person he is and I am and how we decided to handle this.”

On Aaron Carter‘s declarations of love: “Him reaching out through social media? It’s ridiculous! But then people do it all the time, like Chris Brown and Karrueche? Come on, guys. Keep it between text messages.”

On her view of marriage post divorce: “I don’t want to sound bitter because I’m definitely not, but I don’t know if people are meant to be together forever. Things happen over a long relationship that you can’t always fight. A marriage of 20 years, the accomplishment of that must feel really great, but there are also huge sacrifices. I just always want to fight for happiness.”

For more from Hilary, visit Cosmopolitan.com.

FYI: Hilary is wearing American Eagle Outfitters denim shorts on the cover.