Demi Moore went to extremes to lose weight after giving birth.
The actress, now 61, revealed that after giving birth to her second child with then-husband Bruce Willis, she would cycle 30 kilometers from the family home in Malibu to a Hollywood studio, only to make the trip again when she finished filming. for the day.
“I put a lot of pressure on myself,” Moore admitted in an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” “and I had the experience of being told to lose weight, and all of those, although they may have been embarrassing and humiliating, what I did to myself because of it.”
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Demi Moore cycled 60 kilometers every day after giving birth to her second child. (Michelle Quance/Variety via Getty Images)
The subject of a long bike ride, which he did while filming 1993’s “Inappropriate Proposal,” was brought up, and Moore added that his daughter Scout was “5 or 6 months old” at the time.
“So I was feeding him all night, waking up in the dark with a coach carrying a flashlight, cycling to Paramount, wherever, even where we were shooting, and shooting a full day, usually a 12-hour day, and then start over.”
Demi Moore was filming “Indecent Proposal” with Woody Harrelson while riding a bike a lot. (Highlights Images/Getty Images)
He said “I just mean the idea of ​​what to do with my body, it’s like crazy, it’s ridiculous.”
“I put a lot of pressure on myself, and I had the experience of being told to lose weight, and all of them, although they may have been embarrassed and humiliated, that’s what I did to myself because of it.”
CBS correspondent Tracy Smith suggested that Moore thought “that was what was needed at the time,” and she agreed, but added, “But you look back and you’re like, ‘Was it that important? Maybe not.’
Moore added, “But at the time, I was making it mean everything.”
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Demi Moore at “The Road to the Golden Globes Party” at the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024 on Sept. 7, 2024 in Toronto. (Earl Gibson III/Penske Media via Getty Images)
Moore welcomed three daughters with Willis: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. After the couple divorced in 2000, she married actor Ashton Kutcher in 2005. They divorced in 2013, and he never remarried.
She was asked what she thinks when she looks in the mirror today, and she replied, “It changes. Some days I look and I’m like, ‘Wow, that’s great,’ and other days I find myself isolating myself, focusing too much on the things I don’t like.”
He continued, “The difference is now I can control myself. I can go, ‘Yeah, I don’t like that loose skin.’ But you know, it is what it is, so I’m going to make the best of what’s there instead of chasing what’s not.”
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When she was younger, Moore said she used to complain that her face was “flat” and “no angles,” and she said with a laugh that “now it’s loose.”
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore were married for 12 years before separating in 2000. (George Rose via Getty Images)
“I don’t mind some of this bad behavior back, in the right places,” he said.
During his interview, Moore also touched on his current relationship with Willis. In February 2023, his family revealed that he had been diagnosed with dementia.
Moore explained that when he’s in town, he visits him every week, and said, “The important thing is just meeting him where he is as opposed to clinging to who he was, what he was like, because again, that just puts you in a place of loss compared to being here now, meeting him where he is and finding the joy and love of all is not, where he is.”
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