Demi Moore has reflected on the ‘pressure’ she felt under to lose weight after giving birth (Picture: DGP/imageSPACE/REX/Shutterstock)
Demi Moore has revealed the ‘crazy’ way she lost weight after putting ‘so much pressure’ on herself following the birth of her daughter Scout.
The 61-year-old actress was working on Indecent Proposal just months after welcoming her second daughter with then-husband Bruce Willis in 1991, and she admitted she pushed herself too hard to lose her baby weight.
Demi has recalled cycling 30 miles to and from the set each day as she tried to slim down amid pressure on herself due to Hollywood.
In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, she explained: ‘I was feeding her [Scout] through the night, getting up in the dark with a trainer … biking all the way to Paramount, even on location where we were shooting; then shooting a full day, which is usually a 12-hour day; and then starting all over again.
‘I think [Scout] was, like, five or six months old when we were shooting … I put so much pressure on myself…
‘I did have experiences of being told to lose weight. And all of those, while they may have been embarrassing and humiliating, it’s what I did to myself because of that… Even just the idea of what I did to my body, it’s so crazy, so ridiculous.’
She was working on the film just months after giving birth for the second time (Picture: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
She has opened up on the ‘pressure’ she put on herself (Picture: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock)
She admitted that it meant ‘everything’ to her at the time (Picture: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
Demi – who is mum to Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30, with ex-husband Bruce – went on to admit losing her baby weight didn’t actually ‘matter that much’ really but at the time it was massively important to her.
‘Yeah. But you look back and you kinda go, “Did it really matter that much?” Probably not! But at the time, I made it mean everything,’ she recalled.
When asked what she thinks when she looks in the mirror now, Demi admitted she has good and bad days.
Demi and Bruce have daughters Rumer, Tallulah and Scout together (Picture: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
She would cycle to the set even before a 12-hour filming day (Picture: Paramount/Everett/REX/Shutterstock)
Demi admitted that her body positivity ‘fluctuates’ now (Picture: Chad Salvador/Variety via Getty Images)
She added: ‘It fluctuates. Some days I look and I’m like, “Wow. That’s pretty good”. And some days, I catch myself dissecting, hyper-focusing on, you know, things that I don’t like.
‘The difference is, now I can catch myself. I can go, Yeah, I don’t like that loose skin. But, you know, it is what it is. So, I’m gonna make the best of what is, as opposed to chasing what isn’t.’
Meanwhile Demi recently revealed she lost 20lbs after suffering with shingles on the set of her chilling new film the Substance.
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She appears in the body horror alongside Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid, and she was suffering during the shoot.
‘To give you an idea of the intensity, my first week that I actually had off, where it was just Margaret working, I got shingles,’ she told the LA Times. ‘And I then lost, like, 20lbs.’
‘You have to walk away feeling that you put it all on the table,’ Demi added. ‘It called for it and it’s what you want to bring to it.’
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