Demi Moore is confident in her skin at 61, looking down memory lane and recalling the intense workout routine she imposed on herself after the birth of her second daughter Scout Willis in 1991. At the time, Moore was living in Malibu, California with her then-husband Bruce Willis.
“I put so much pressure on myself,” Moore recalled during the Sunday, September 22, episode of CBS Sunday Morning. “I did have experiences of being told to lose weight. And all of those, while they may have been embarrassing and humiliating, it’s what I did to myself because of that.”
“I think Scout was, like, five or six months old when we were shooting [Indecent Proposal]. So, I was feeding her through the night, getting up in the dark with a trainer, with a headlamp, biking to Paramount, wherever, even on location where we were shooting; then shooting a full day, which is usually a 12-hour day; and then starting all over again,” Moore remembered. “Even just the idea of, like, what I did to my body, it’s, like, so crazy, so ridiculous.”
According to the actress, she thought that was required of her at the time.
“But, you look back and you kinda go, ‘Did it matter that much?’ Probably not,” she quipped. “But at the time, I made it mean everything.”
Moore previously struggled with self-esteem, which sometimes still affects her. Speaking with CBS broadcast Tracy Smith on Sunday, the Substance star admits “it fluctuates.”
“Some days I look and I’m like, ‘Wow. ‘That pretty good’ And some days, I catch myself dissecting, hyper-focusing on, you know, things that I don’t like,” Moore confessed. “The difference is, now I can catch myself. I can go, ‘Yeah, I don’t like that loose skin. But, you know, it is what it is. So, I’m gonna make the best of what is, as opposed to chasing what isn’t.’”
Moore further recalled that she used to hyper-focus on her apparently “chubby” face that lacked angles.
She added, “Then you’re like, ‘Yeah, but now it’s, like, loose! I wouldn’t mind some of that chubbiness back, in the right places.
“Emotionally, that idea that I think many of us have been where we’re trying to make something better and then we just keep making it worse,” Moore said on Sunday. “For me, it’s one of the most heart-wrenching moments in the whole film. And it was at least 15 takes each time. And so, by the end, my face was raw.”
During her 13-year marriage to Bruce Willis, Moore welcomed three daughters. She gave birth to Rumer in 1988, Scout in 1991, and Tallulah in 1994. The couple parted ways in 2000.
Bruce was diagnosed with aphasia and dementia in March 2022 which led to his retirement from acting. Recently, his youngest daughter Tallulah shared a touching update on her father’s condition in an interview with E! News.
“Our visits are filled with so much love, and I feel that love overshadows everything else,” she told the interviewer.
