Demi Moore recalled the biggest “body crazes” of her career in an interview given on September 22. The opportunity for the actress to look back on her difficult youth in a “time of great judgment”.
To lose weight after her second pregnancy, in the early 1990s, Demi Moore imposed an iron sporting discipline on herself. Invited on the set of “CBS News Sunday Morning” on September 22, the 61-year-old actress spoke about the difficulties she encountered with her body during her career. An open-hearted interview during which Bruce Willis’ ex-wife spoke about the sacrifices she madewhat she inflicted on herself to submit to the beauty standards of the time.
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Demi Moore notably explained how she shed the pounds gained during her pregnancy for her role in the film “Indecent Proposal”. The one who had just given birth to her daughter Scout – with actor Bruce Willis – in 1991, had started filming only “five or six months” after giving birth. “I would ride my bike to the Paramount studios, even to the filming location, and then shoot all day, which is usually a 12-hour day, and start all over again.”she said.
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Demi Moore, pregnant with her second child, holds her husband Bruce Willis at the premiere of “Hudson Hawk” in Westwood, California in 1991.
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A weight loss that Demi Moore regrets, when she looks back on it: “Just the idea of imagining what I did to my body is so crazy, so ridiculous. » However, the American actress remembers that at that time, her image of herself was much more negative. “When you look back on it, you say, ‘Did it really matter that much?’ “Probably not, but at the time I made sure it had special meaning,” she continued.
Demi Moore at the age of 31, during a scene from the film “Indecent Proposal” in 1993.
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Elizabeth Sparkle as Demi Moore in “The Substance”
Demi Moore, however, considers today that she has succeeded in freeing herself from this infernal spiral: “Some days, I look at myself and I say to myself: ‘Wow, that’s pretty good,’ and other days, I surprise myself focus on things I don’t like,” she said. “The difference is now I can pull myself together and say, ‘I don’t like this saggy skin, but you know, that’s how it is. I’m going to make the most of what’s available. rather than chasing what is not,” she said.
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In an interview with the “Guardian” on September 14, Demi Moore had already spoken about her complicated youth in the spotlight. The lead actress in “The Substance” recalled women’s obsession with thinness in the 1990s. “Self-judgment, the pursuit of perfection, the attempt to get rid of one’s ‘flaws,’ the feeling of rejection and despair, none of this is exclusive to women,” she explained to the magazine.
A subject that the mother of three children (Rumer, Tallulah and Scout) explored in the interpretation of Elisabeth Sparkle in the “body horror” which will be released in cinemas on November 6. A film which won the best screenplay prize at the Cannes Film Festival last May.
Demi Moore plays the role of a fifty-year-old obsessed with her body. Having just been fired from her job because she is too old, she decides to inject herself with a miraculous potion allowing her to become “perfect”. A character who reminds him of his past life.
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