youtube; Lydia Ivy/@lydiaivyphotograph A proud mom shared a video of her kids realizing their dad, Levin, was in a music video with Hilary Duff Levin was featured in the "Wake Up" music video in 2005 Antionette and Levin reflect on the viral moment — and Levin's time working with Duff A mom is sharing a fun moment from her husband's past with their kids. Antoinette, on Instagram @antoinettemaa, shared anInstagram Reelshowing her little ones reacting to seeing their dad in the 2005 music video forHilary Duff's single, "Wake Up." Antoinette first met her husband, Levin Maaskant, through mutual friends in 2017. The two had chemistry, but Antoinette was already in a relationship. He settled for becoming a regular client at the salon she worked at — to start. "He told me he wanted to see me for a haircut and then traveled over an hour just to come for his 20-minute haircut. He has very easy hair. He could have gone anywhere, and so that's how I knew he was interested. But he was very respectful because I wasn't single," she tells PEOPLE. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. It was during one of those haircutting sessions that Levin happened to mention his music video cameo. "My husband is so humble. I don't know how it came up. I think during one of his haircuts, during those two years when he was just my client. He'd come every six weeks, but this didn't come up until a lot later," she shares. As for how the moment came to be, Antoinette explains her husband dabbled in modeling in his late teens. "He's a tech consultant now, but he did some modeling when he was around 18, 19 years old. We're from Mississauga, just outside of Toronto, Ontario. They shot the Hilary Duff music video for 'Wake Up' in downtown Toronto. So, he auditioned for it," Antoinette explains. In her viral video, Antoinette plays the music video for her toddlers, with the older of the two recognizing her dad. "I started by playing the song, then the video for the kids. Of course, they realized it was daddy. They were very young when I first showed them, but it was sweet," she says. "It was a song, a whole album really, that I loved and listened to over and over again. I was around 19 when that video came out, so I love showing them what that time was like and what their dad did back in the day." Levin shared some more context in a storytime posted after the video of the kids went viral. "The actual shoot was two days, and it was mostly in the Distillery District downtown. We were driven around in a 5G, which was like a mock of the end of a car ... being dragged by another person," he recalls. "The audition process was funny because I realized it was 30 or 50 people there, auditioning for the same music video. They told us to just start dancing. So I was awkward at the time, I wasn't really sure how to act. The director of the audition stopped us and said, 'You,' and pointed at me. He said, 'You're really awkward, so why don't you do that more?' " Lydia Ivy/@lydiaivyphotograph As far as interacting with Duff, he said, "We didn't get to see her very much until right when we started shooting. She entered the scene once we had been directed how to act." Of the time-capsule moment, Antoinette tells PEOPLE. "It's a cool thing to have. I was a big fan of hers, and I just think about how I didn't know I was watching my future husband. It's pretty cool to show the kids, and they'll understand more once they're older." Courtesy of Antoinette Maaskant "A lot of people think it's cool. They've tagged Hilary Duff. I think I got mostly positive comments and feedback. People appreciated that the video had such a natural reaction, and I was really surprised by how people responded to it," she adds. "I love posting things that make people smile and feel good. I am happy to see that's what I did with this video. This little piece of my family, this small story of my family that I had to share — I'm just glad it made people smile." Read the original article onPeople
