Hollywood A-lister Demi Moore has candidly spoken out about her long-standing battle with body image issues and eating disorders, admitting the dark side of Tinseltown’s glamor pushed her to the edge.
Opening up to Elle magazine, Moore, at 62, recalled a particularly “humiliating” run-in with one producer when she was just a budding starlet: “The producer pulled me aside. It was very embarrassing and humiliating,” she expressed.
The Ghost sensation dived deep into the hurtful comments that left scars, leading to destructive behavior: “There is a lot of torment I put myself through when I was younger,” Moore admitted.
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She analyzed how she digested Hollywood’s rigid standards, confessing it led her down a cruel path fraught with self-criticism and punishing regimens: “How I internalized it and how it moved me to a place of such torture and harshness against myself, of real extreme behaviors, and that I placed almost all the value of who I was on my body being a certain way – that’s on me,” she introspected.
Remarkably choosing roles for therapeutic transformation, Moore elaborated: “I changed my body multiple times through different roles, and I think I chose those roles, whether it was conscious or not, for the very opportunity to find some peace and self-love.”
In her raw 2019 memoir, Inside Out, she lays bare her struggles, such as an intense obsession with working out while prepping for A Few Good Men, driven by postpartum pressure. “I didn’t feel like I could stop exercising,” she penned, recalling the compulsion to fit into an unforgiving military uniform for the role.
Her fixation worsened while filming “Indecent Proposal,” despite medical warnings. “I would be on display again, and all I could think about was my body, my body, my body,” she wrote.
“I intensified my already extreme exercise routine. I eliminated carbs, I ran, I biked, and I used every machine imaginable,” reports the Express US.
Moore recognized the severity of eating disorders in her memoir. “If all this obsessing about my body sounds crazy to you, you’re not wrong: eating disorders are crazy, they are a sickness. But that doesn’t make them less real,” she wrote.
