Demi Moore was one of the members of the Hollywood group The Brat Pack, a bunch of Hollywood actors who broke out in acting and started together in coming-of-age films in the 90s. She rose to prominence with the 1990 supernatural romance film Ghost. The 90s was her best decade, when she became an A-list actress, while also being deemed one of the most beautiful movie stars in the industry.
Despite her illustrious career, the actress has had problems maintaining her body image and has suffered from weight issues. In her memoir, Inside Out, Moore detailed the extent to which she went to shed her weight for a film and the pain it caused to her body. The actress clearly had a love-hate relationship with her body all her life.
Demi Moore’s Unhealthy Relationship With Her Body Affected Her Life In Painful Ways
Demi Moore was a rising star in the 80s and had appeared in supporting roles in films like Blame It on Rio, and St. Elmo’s Fire. She began starring as the lead actress in the 1986 romantic comedy About Last Night. She was so conscious about her body image and her obsession with maintaining a skinny body that she went to extreme lengths to shed weight.
In her memoir Inside Out, Moore recalled how she struggled with trying to maintain a certain physical shape when she was prepping for About Last Night and her body not responding to the level that she wanted to.
The actress would get extremely stressed about her weight issues and in turn, go on an emotional eating spree, feeling disgusted and ashamed with her body. Moore wrote (via The Things),
If I got on a scale, it could ruin my entire day. I have journals upon journals from that period, full of writing about my pain and torture over my body. I used food as a kind of punishment for everything I believed was wrong and dirty about myself: I imbued it with every bad feeling, all my shame, and then gobbled it up.
The actress also reflected on her struggles with her body and how she had a love-hate relationship with it in an interview with Harper’s Bazar in 2012. Moore clearly endured much pain with her fluctuating body weight and trying to maintain a decent body has been a traumatizing experience for her.
Demi Moore Felt The N*de Scenes in The Substance Was Necessary To The Narrative
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley are starring in the upcoming body horror film The Substance. The film chronicles a feud that originates after Qualley’s character replaces Moore as the host of a daytime exercise program (via The Hollywood Reporter). The film directed by Coralie Fargeat, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
At the press conference of the film at the Cannes Film Festival, Moore stated that the nudity featured in the film was a product of the vulnerability and rawness required to tell the story. In doing the scenes with Qualley, Moore felt very safe in knowing that she was working with a person she could trust, and they both found levity in those absurd sequences. The actress said (via Variety),
Going into it, it was really spelled out — the level of vulnerability and rawness that was really required to tell the story. It was a very vulnerable experience and just required a lot of sensitivity and a lot of conversation about what we were trying to accomplish.
I had someone who was a great partner who I felt very safe with. We obviously were quite close — naked — and we also got a lot of levity in those moments at how absurd those certain situations were.
The film received a 13-minute standing ovation, the longest one yet at this year’s Cannes (via Deadline). The Substance already has an 89% on Rotten Tomatoes which is a great start for the film. For now, no theatrical release date has been set for the film.
