Hilary Duff: New album Dignity

It makes perfect sense former tween queen Hilary Duff would want to name her most recent album Dignity.

For one thing, she's one of the only stars her age who could pull it off.

To date, Duff is one of scant few members of Hollywood's new guard who have yet to be arrested, shipped off to rehab or caught flashing their lady-parts to paparazzi while clumsily exiting a limo.

Instead, she has made a pretty smooth transition from teen-TV fare like Lizzie Maguire to popular big-screen projects like A Cinderella Story and the Cheaper by the Dozen franchise.

Along the way, she's released six CDs, and while critics haven't always been kind to her fluffy brand of pop, the Dignity disc, awash in electro-clash stylings and heavily autobiographical lyrics, has been met with pretty positive reviews.

So what is it that keeps Duff, already a show-biz veteran at the tender age of 19, out of the scandal sheets and in the public's good books?

"I guess it's my mom," says Duff.

"I really feel like that is what has made it so easy for me to not have to go through all that.

"My mom and my sister being so close to me, and my actually caring what they have to say ... Also having a mom that doesn't want the lifestyle I have, but who just wants to be my mom."

She's definitely on to something there.

While your typical train-wreck celebs (think Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton) tend to have parents who are just as fame-hungry as they are, those lucky enough not to be dogged by scandal (think Justin Timberlake and Mandy Moore) usually have guardians content to offer support from the sidelines.

A far more private person than her compatriots, Duff says she found it difficult to air some of her dirty laundry on Dignity, which sees her riffing on a failed relationship, her parents' recent divorce and a stalker jailed for harassing her in 2006.

"It's hard to let your guard down when you're so used to having it up, but it got easier."