Demi Moore is candidly sharing the “crazy” approach she took to shed weight after the birth of her second child, Scout Willis. In a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the actress opened up about her intense workout regimen and the pressure she felt to bounce back quickly.
At the time, Moore was living in Malibu with her then-husband, Bruce Willis, and she revealed that she biked 30 miles to and from work every day while filming Indecent Proposal in 1991. “I was breastfeeding Scout through the night and getting up before dawn to train. I’d bike all the way to Paramount, even on the location where we were shooting, then work a full day—typically around 12 hours—and start the cycle all over again,” she recalled. “I think Scout was only five or six months old when we were filming.”
Reflecting on her postpartum experience, Moore acknowledged that her expectations were far from realistic. “I put so much pressure on myself,” she admitted. “I’ve faced situations where I was told to lose weight, and while those moments were embarrassing and humiliating, they shaped how I treated myself.”
She continued, “Looking back, what I put my body through was just so crazy, so ridiculous.” Moore also pointed out that while losing the extra weight might not have mattered as much in the grand scheme, regaining her pre-baby body was “everything” to her at that time.
Similarly, in her new horror film The Substance, Moore portrays an aging TV star who is willing to do anything to achieve perfection. In the film, her character takes a miraculous drug that allows her to give birth to a “younger, prettier” version of herself, though it comes at a significant cost.
When asked about her reflections while looking in the mirror today, Moore candidly shared, “Uhm, it fluctuates.” She elaborated, “Some days I look and think, ‘Wow, that’s pretty good.’ On other days, I find myself hyper-focusing on the things I don’t like. The difference now is that I can recognize those thoughts. I might see loose skin and think, ‘Yeah, I don’t like that,’ but I also remind myself that it is what it is. I’m choosing to make the best of what I have instead of chasing what isn’t.”
