Tallulah Willis Opens Up About Dad Bruce Willis, Growing Up Famous & More In Candid Essay

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Tallulah Willis is opening herself up like never before in a candid essay she’s written for Vogue. In her essay, Willis shares the experience of growing up as the child of two of the world’s most famous movie stars, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

She begins by recounting how she was 11 when she first came across online criticism, which she found devastating. Believing that her family had been shielding her from these harsh “truths,” she kept her self-loathing to herself. “I just lived with the silent certainty of my own ugliness,” she wrote. READ MORE: Demi Moore And Emma Heming Defend Tallulah Willis Against Body Shamers Willis continues by recalling entering psychiatric treatment when she was 20 — and then reading all the particulars in the Daily Mail. “For the last four years, I have suffered from anorexia nervosa, which I’ve been reluctant to talk about because, after getting sober at age 20, restricting food has felt like the last vice that I got to hold on to,” she writes. “When I was 25, I was admitted to a residential treatment facility in Malibu to address the depression that I had lived with through my adolescence.

It was a largely therapeutic experience; for the first time, I grieved the 15-year-old misfit me, the ugly duckling. I was also diagnosed with ADHD and started on stimulant medication, which was transformative,” she adds. “I felt smart for the first time, but I also started to enjoy the appetite-​suppressant side effect of the meds.” READ MORE: Tallulah Willis Opens Up About Skin Struggles, Shares Recent Progress At the same time she was struggling with body dysmorphia, her father was struggling with frontotemporal dementia, which she describes as “a progressive neurological disorder that