14 DAY TRIAL // At 20 years old, Tallulah Willis, the youngest of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughters, has had more than her fair share of media exposure, even though she went out of her way to stay out of the spotlight. Excessive negative media attention led her to develop body dysmorphia, she tells StyleLikeU.
In a new video posted to the StyleLikeU YouTube channel, which aims to show that real style isn’t that which you create through the combination of clothing items because it comes from underneath it all, Tallulah opens up about her sad teenage years and how the media made her personal insecurities worse.
The video is available at the link above, but *please be advised that discretion is recommended because it contains graphic language that might offend.
With each new revelation that she makes, Tallulah removes one item of clothing on her, until she’s left in her bra and knickers. At the end of the chat, the interviewer lets her know that she’s “[expletive]ing beautiful” and that she should remember that every morning when she gets out of bed.
There were days when she was younger when she would have probably given anything to hear someone tell her that.
“I struggled a lot when I was younger… I'm diagnosed with body dysmorphia from reading those stupid [expletive]ing tabloids when I was 13, with the feeling that I was just, like, ugly. Always. I believed strangers more than the people that loved me, because why would the people who loved me be honest? It was a conviction, it was just reality,” Tallulah says.
In time, she discovered that she had a great figure that “compensated” for what she was “lacking in the face,” so she started dressing provocatively to get attention. Her style at the time was comprised mostly of tight pants (very short too, if possible), deep cleavages, and push-up bras, because she knew that this would get her the attention and the approval she so badly wanted.
Then, one year ago, everything changed: and it all started with an outfit that revealed only her arms, not the breasts, or the legs, or the derriere.
“[I remember] feeling so beautiful. That was a [expletive]ing mind-[expletive] for me… the fact that all of the attention would be on my face, and that was so scary for me because I always wanted to distract people [from it], and at that time I realized I wasn't who I was anymore,” she says.
Things are better today, because she knows she’s not the person the tabloids say she is, because she has discovered her inner beauty, and with it, the confidence she needed to get over her insecurities. These still emerge every once in a while on the red carpet, but most of the time, she has them under control.