1 of three | Haylie Duff (R) stars in “Fairly Hurts,” a movie that brings consciousness to the significance of meningitis B vaccinations. Photograph courtesy of Lifetime
Could 9 (UPI) — Actress and director Haylie Duff will star within the upcoming Lifetime film Fairly Hurts, which premieres June 28.
Duff portrays mom and former magnificence queen, Julie, who’s guiding her daughter, Lauren (Sarah Borne), via a pageant. Lauren enters reluctantly within the hope of profitable the cash she must attend her dream school.
“Whereas Julie is raring to relive the glory of her personal pageant days and share one final bonding expertise together with her daughter, Lauren is thrust right into a darkish, poisonous world of cutthroat competitors and psychological manipulation, all hidden behind bleached white smiles and rhinestone robes,” the official synopsis reads. “Too preoccupied with the pageant, Lauren would not understand that her finest good friend Rae (Kaci Barker) is falling critically ailing with a doubtlessly lethal however vaccine-preventable illness — meningitis B — prompting her to show the pageant platform right into a software for consciousness and training.”
The film obtained funding from the biopharma firm GSK, and the movie is supposed to lift consciousness concerning the illness as a part of GSK’s “Ask2BSure” marketing campaign, in line with a press launch.
Duff is understood for seventh Heaven and Napoleon Dynamite. She is sister to singer and actress Hilary Duff.