Ahead of the release of her candid new memoir, Inside Out, Demi Moore opens up to close friend Lena Dunham about her dysfunctional childhood, her past loves, and how she overcame addiction.
QUOTES:
On reviving her mother from an overdose at a young age: “The next thing I remember is using my fingers, the small fingers of a child, to dig the pills my mother had tried to swallow out of her mouth while my father held it open and told me what to do. Something very deep inside me shifted then, and it never shifted back. My childhood was over.”
On the public’s perception of her past: “Everything that occurs in our individual lives informs us. Shifting, molding, presenting the opportunities for the exact purpose to get us where we are in the present time. Whatever that may be. All the projecting of who they think I am [were] the very things that were pushing me out of two elements: my comfort zone, and my control. [They were] trying to get me to let go and really be who I am. And I don’t think that I knew how to do that.”
On her children: “’My daughters offered me an opportunity to start to change the generational pattern. To be able to break the cycles …’ Motherhood, she says, was her only absolute goal and the only destiny she can be sure she’s fulfilled, and that includes ‘mothering myself.’”
On her infamous Vanity Fair cover story: “Thank goodness people remember the photo, they don’t remember the article.”
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COVER
Hat: Lynn Paik
Bracelet: Van Cleef & Arpels
IMAGE
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