She has done multiple nude scenes throughout her career, even posing on the cover of Vanity Fair completely nude.
But Demi Moore has revealed the ‘biggest misconception’ about her is that she ‘loves her body’ and says she took on certain roles to help her overcome her insecurities.
Since rising to fame in the 1980s, Moore, 61, has not shied away from a full-frontal nude scene, from her portrayal of a dancer in Striptease in 1996 to a 17th-century Puritan in The Scarlet Letter in 1995.
She has also posed nude for several magazine covers.
Moore appeared on the cover of the January 1981 issue of adult magazine Oui, taken from a photo shoot in which she had posed completely nude.
Nude queen Demi Moore, 60, has admitted she feels “insecure” about her body and only stripped on camera to “break free from her self-imposed bondage”
Since rising to fame in the 1980s, Moore, 61, has not shied away from a full-frontal nude scene (pictured in Striptease in 1996).
In August 1991, Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair while seven months pregnant with the second of her three daughters.
The following year, Moore again appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair, this time modeling under the title Demi’s Birthday Suit.
Most recently, she posed nude on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in October 2019.
Speaking about her nude scenes in an interview with Variety on Tuesday, she said: ‘One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I loved my body.
‘The reality is that a lot of it was because I signed up for certain projects that would give me the opportunity to help me overcome insecurities about my body.
‘It was the same with the Vanity Fair covers; it wasn’t that I loved them, it was about trying to free myself from the space of slavery I had put myself in.’
Moore, whose new film The Substance has received rave reviews, received a 13-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.
In The Substance, Moore plays Elisabeth, an aging TV fitness instructor who enrolls in a mysterious medical regimen called The Substance that promises to create the perfect, younger, better version of herself (played by 29-year-old Margaret Qualley).
Demi revealed: ‘The reality is that a lot of it was because I signed up for certain projects that would give me the opportunity to help me overcome insecurities about my body’ (pictured in No Small Affair, 1984).
The role required Moore to be completely nude in a scene in which Qualley’s character is “born,” which shows Moore examining her own naked body before Qualley emerges and looks at her own skin in a fully frontal scene.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Ms Moore said the full-frontal nudity scenes in The Substance were easier to perform with Ms Qualley because it made her feel “very safe”.
“I had someone who was a great partner and with whom I felt very safe,” she said.
‘We were obviously pretty close, naked, and we were also very happy in those moments about how absurd certain situations were.
“But ultimately, what’s important is to really guide communication and mutual trust.”
Moore’s new film, The Substance, required her to be completely nude in a scene in which Margaret Qualley’s character is “born”
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