Demi Moore is getting candid about the regimen she followed to lose weight after giving birth to her second child, Scout Willis. In a newly released video interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the 61-year-old actress reflected on her intense post-baby routine, which she now admits was “crazy.”
“I put so much pressure on myself,” Moore told CBS correspondent Tracy Smith. “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.”
One of the lengths she went to? During the segment, Moore revealed that while filming Indecent Proposal in the early ’90s, she would ride her bike from her home in Malibu to Paramount Studios in Hollywood—a 30-mile trek each way. “I was feeding [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,” she told CBS correspondent Tracy Smith. “I think [Scout] was, like, five or six months old when we were shooting.”
Looking back, Moore admits how intense it was. “Even just the idea of what I did to my body, it’s so crazy, so ridiculous,” she continued. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. “You look back and you kind of go, ‘Did it really matter that much?’ Probably not. But at the time, I made it mean everything.”
Their conversation couldn’t be more timely, as Moore stars in the newly released horror-sci-fi film The Substance. The film delves into the theme of aging, exploring the extreme measures some individuals—especially women—feel compelled to take in order to maintain their youthful appearance.
Moore’s reflections on Hollywood’s treatment of women add weight to her role in the film. “Hollywood is cruel to women of that age, where you don’t find the scripts or the characters that resonate with you anymore,” she told Interview Magazine last month. “It’s either, you are the mother or you’re old enough not to be sexy in their eyes. It’s like, why can’t a 45-year-old, a 50-year-old, or 60-year-old, be sexy? But that whole perception is undergoing a lot of change because people like you and me won’t sit back and just take it.”
