Demi Moore on her choices as a mother
Actress Demi Moore, 44, who has three daughters — Rumer, 19, Scout, 16, and Tallulah, 13, with ex-husband Bruce Willis, never imagined in her wildest dreams that she would be married to actor Ashton Kutcher, who is 15 years her junior or that her kids would take to him so well. They even call him MOD for ‘My Other Dad’.
On paper if somebody had said: you are going to be marrying somebody who is 25, as he was then, who sees a woman who has three kids as a bonus, I would have laughed. I would never have known that this man could have existed.
Demi wasn’t even looking for anyone when Ashton appeared on the scene. As she put it,
I actually think I was at a point where I thought I was never going to find anybody. I don’t come with baggage, I come with trunks — and as the mother of three teenagers I wasn’t feeling sorry for myself, but dating seems kind of silly.
The couple married in 2005 and Demi admits that she and Ashton are not against adding another child to their family.
We would love that. It would be just fantastic. We are doing lots of practicing. And you can’t complain about practicing with him.
Click below for the rest of the interview, where Demi discusses Bruce and their girls.
In regards to her daughters, Demi and then-husband Bruce moved theirfamily to Idaho to better raise their children when they were younger.Demi did not mind leaving the spotlight behind.
WhenI realized I needed to be with my kids in one place for whatever amountof time, it didn’t feel like a risk in terms of my career. It was justthat my children were important to me. They were little, aged fromabout five to 11. It wasn’t about: am I giving up work? It was about:my children are important to me.
Demi and Bruce announced their separation and the actress felt that she needed to be with her children now more than ever.
Weannounced our separation, and my mother died. I went off to do a filmafter this called Passion of Mind. The film didn’t get the best of meand my children weren’t getting the best of me. I was not in the mix.The film had been an extraordinary script and an okay film, but itwasn’t about that. I was the product of divorced parents who weren’tpresent for me. I realized if I wasn’t present for them I was going tohave bigger issues with them later.
I didn’t want to work and drag my kids with me while they weretrying to cross this huge transition. I wanted them to become as stableand as confident as possible. There are people who go through this anddon’t have the financial means, but I did. It wasn’t a risk; it was theright thing to do.
Even though they are divorced, Demi and Bruce remain the best of friends and swore to always put their children first.
Inour case we placed our children as a priority. After all, each of themwas created by a piece of us, and I never wanted them to think whathappened to us had any reflection on them. My parents used my brotherand me as pawns. I was determined that that would never happen with myfamily. I have daughters, so obviously I support a daughter’srelationship with their father because it could dictate choices theywould later make.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
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