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While promoting her new film, The Substance, Demi Moore revealed the extreme lengths she goes to to look beautiful.
In a new interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” she revealed, “I put a lot of pressure on myself. I had experiences where I was told to lose weight, and as embarrassing and humiliating as that may have been, that’s what I did to myself.”
Moore recalled that after welcoming her second daughter, Scout, in 1991, she cycled 60 miles every day while filming “Indecent Proposal” to lose the post-baby weight.
“I think my daughter was about five or six months old while we were filming,” she says. “I’d breastfeed her through the night, get up in the dark in my sweatshirt with a headlamp, bike to Paramount, ride to the location, and then shoot, typically for 12 hours a day, and start all over again.”
Moore recalls: “It’s so crazy and ridiculous to even think about what I did to my body, but then I look back and I’m like, ‘Was it really that important?’ Probably not, but at the time it was everything.”
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Now 61, she stars in “Substance,” a fitness show starring Elizabeth Sparkle, a leading actress past her prime. Sparkle decides to try a mysterious new drug that will allow her to be reborn as a young, attractive Sue (Margaret Qualley). But there’s a catch: The effect is only temporary, and she must alternate between seeing two versions of herself.
So how does Demi see herself these days? She told “CBS Sunday Morning”: “Some days I look at myself and I’m like, ‘Wow, I look pretty good,’ and other days I catch myself over-focusing and over-analysing what I don’t like. But now I’m in control and I can say, ‘Yeah, I don’t like this loose skin.’ But it is what it is. So I’m just going to make the most of what’s real, instead of chasing what’s not real.”
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Moore also spoke about her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Demi said she visits him most weeks when she’s in town. “It’s important to meet him where he is now, rather than obsessing over who he was or what he was like,” she said. “Because, again, that just leaves you feeling lost, versus living in the present and meeting him where he is now and finding joy and love in all that he is now.”
