Hilarie Burton Opens Up About How Her Style Has Changed, Jokes She Feels ‘Real Cute’ Carrying Fertilizer on Her Farm

Mar. 15, 2025

Hilarie Burton in March 2024.Photo:Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

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Hilarie Burtonsays she feels her “cutest” when she’s outdoors, working hard on her farm.

Speaking with host Melanie Berliet atBetter Homes & GardensStylemaker 2024 Event in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 19, the 42-year-old actress opened up about how her style has changed since her teenage years on shows likeOne Tree Hill— and how moving out to a Hudson Valley, N.Y. farm changed her beauty standards.

Referring to a previous interview onThe Viewwhen Burton said she feels an expectation to keep looking 17 forever but decided tolet her gray hair grow outanyway, host Berliet asked the star if her hairstyle was a direct response to those “messed-up expectations.”

“You know what? I used to joke that I was a Los Angeles three, but I was a Hudson Valley nine,” Burton joked, opening up about the beauty standards in Hollywood versus where she lives now. “And isn’t it crazy how where you live can affect how you feel about yourself?”

“I remember going into our local farm shop feeling real cute, just like I am carrying the heaviest things I’ve ever carried. I’ve got animal food and I’ve got hay and I’ve got fertilizer and I’m covered in s—,” she continued, joking: “I feel so hot right now.”

According to the actress, she began wearing men’s clothing and dressing more for her newfound outdoorsy lifestyle when she moved with her husband,Jeffrey Dean Morgan, to a farm in Rhinebeck, N.Y. — where they keep tons of animals and crops, including adonkey and emu.

“I always worn men’s pants my whole life. My dad was in the military and I used to steal all of the military pants with all the pockets,” she continued. “I remember moving to the farm thinking that my pocketed pants collection had finally paid off. I did it. I had something for every pocket.”

“There’s a magic in being in a place where everything else is a treat and this is my normal,” she added.

Burton and Morgan — whohave been together since 2009and share two children — first moved toMischief Farmin April 2018. At the time, the couple announced viaInstagramthat they had purchased the 100-acre working farm, and the actress has been candid about how she maintains it and takes breaks to return to Hollywood once in a while.

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Elsewhere in her conversation withBetter Homes & Gardens,Burton opened up about how her lifestyle has changed her relationship, as well as how she parents, for the better.

“Centering our kids and giving them this lifestyle where my son can go out and shoot a movie in our weird backyard with all the boulders with moss on them and pretend he’s inLord of the Rings. That’s cool. That’s what I want for him,” she added. “I think a lot of outdoor play has been taken away from kids. And so creating safe spaces where they can do it, their friends can do it is very, very important.”

source: people.com