1 week Ago By Connor McCrory
Demi Moore has opened up about her decades-long struggle with body image and eating disorders , triggered by early Hollywood pressure to lose weight . In a revealing interview with Elle magazine, Moore, 62 , described a "humiliating" encounter with a producer at the start of her career. "The producer pulled me aside.
It was very embarrassing and humiliating," Moore said. Demi Moore's daughter opens up about 'skin-picking' condition with graphic pictures Demi Moore swears at Cannes audience member in bizarre Cher outburst The Ghost star acknowledged the lasting impact of such criticism. "There is a lot of torment I put myself through when I was younger," she said.
Moore, whose career skyrocketed in the late 1980s, reflected on how she internalized the industry's demands. "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 said. The actress revealed she often selected roles that required physical transformations.
"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," Moore told Elle. Her 2019 memoir Inside Out detailed the severity of her exercise addiction, particularly while preparing for 1992's A Few Good Men shortly after giving birth. "I didn't feel like I could stop exercising," Moore wrote.
"It was my job to fit into that unforgiving military uniform." DON'T MISS..
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"I doubled down on my already over-the-top exercise routine. I cut out carbs, I ran and I biked and I worked out on every machine imaginable." Moore acknowledged the serious nature 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..
