Haylie Duff and fiancé Matthew Rosenberg break off 12-year engagement as actress speaks out

Over a decade after announcing their engagement, Haylie Duff has called off her romance with Matthew Rosenberg.

Rosenberg, an entrepreneur, popped the all-important question in April 2014, two years after he and Duff first got together.

The Material Girls actress confirmed the news on her Real Girl's Kitchen blog at the time - though, fans initially found it hard to believe, given that they'd gotten engaged on April Fool's Day.

"This week has seriously just become the best week of my life!" Duff wrote. "As if announcing The Real Girl's Kitchen TV show wasn't enough, Matt just took me by total surprise and proposed…on April Fool's Day of all days!

"The moment was genuine and sweet (like him!) and I couldn't wait to say yes!"

The pair have called off their engagement after 12 years (Tiffany Rose/WireImage)

In the years that followed, she and Rosenberg welcomed two daughters, Ryan, now 10, and Lulu, seven.

Sadly, however, their plans to wed never came into fruition, and this week, a representative for Duff, 41, confirmed the couple had decided to part ways.

"Haylie and Matt ended their relationship around the first of the year," her spokesperson told TMZ. "She asks for privacy at this time in protection of her young daughters."

Speaking to Page Six in 2021, Napoleon Dynamite star Duff insisted she and Rosenberg had planned to tie the knot soon after their engagement, but she'd gotten pregnant with her eldest before receiving the chance to walk down the aisle.

"I did always kind of think to myself whenever our kids started asking us about it, it might be the time that we go, 'OK, we’ve got to do this thing'," she told the celebrity news outlet.

Duff shares two daughters with Rosenberg (Instagram/@haylieduff)

"And Ryan didn’t know the difference of married or not married until she started school and I had to write my name and Matt’s name."

Duff added of her daughter: "And then she was like, 'Wait a minute!'. So now there’s a lot of talk of, like, 'At your wedding...', that kind of stuff."

She also on to claim she and her fiancé had actually 'felt' wed for sometime, adding: "I mean, we couldn’t be more married if we tried."

The pair moved to Texas that year, with plans to exchange vows in their new home. Again, however, they never got round to it.

"I think both of us envisioned doing it in Texas, and so now that we’re here, the conversations are happening a little more often than they were before," Duff explained at the time.

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