The perplexing health conditions of Tallulah, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter

For a long time, the media have reported on the psychological consequences Tallulah Willis endured for being exposed by having two famous parents: Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. Her emotional problems were long tied to extreme insecurity. However, in March 2024, Tallulah announced she had autism.

Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter was born in Los Angeles in 1994. Since she was little, she has had to put up with constant comments comparing her to her mother and father, which affected her perception of herself.

Over time, the young woman developed a body dysmorphic disorder, also known as BDD.

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It is a psychiatric illness in which the person who develops it demonstrates an obsessive concern with their physical appearance and often sees imaginary defects in their physical appearance.

Tallulah Willis was just 13 years old when she was diagnosed. In an interview on the website 'StyleLikeU,' the young woman did not hesitate to point out the media as the main culprit. "I believed the strangers more than the people who loved me because why would the people who love me be honest?" she said.

Years later, through her Instagram profile, Tallulah Willis recounted: "Took me way too long to realize that... I punished myself for not looking like my mom, after being told I was [Bruce Willis'] twin since birth - I resented the resemblance as I believed wholly my 'masculine' face was the sole reason for my unlovability - FALSE!"

After this acknowledgment, Tallulah Willis said that the treatment she has followed helped her to learn to appreciate herself as she is, and her sisters were a fundamental pillar in her recovery.

Willis recommended taking a break from social media for a while, reading fantasy books, "and finding a person or community with whom you can share problems... all of these things can help a patient with this disorder to learn to love what they see in the mirror."

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She also suggests that those with BDD write everything that is going through their head on a piece of paper, then burn or tear it up. Finally, Willis recommended: "Breathe. close your eyes. REMEMBER that you are allowed to take things 5 minutes at a time. for as long as you need to."

Tallulah has continued to be open about her mental health struggles. In 2021, she also acknowledged her skin-picking disorder in this Instagram post. "Feeling out of control so zeroing in on something I CAN control, thus fingernails met face," she wrote.

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In a 2023 essay for Vogue, the then-29-year-old actress opened up about how that condition led to her developing an eating disorder.

In Vogue, she also said that she was diagnosed with ADHA when in treatment for her BDD. But she said the medication, which helped, also suppressed her appetite and exacerbated her eating disorder. When the weight started falling off, she said it was the medication.

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In Vogue, she wrote that she would get down to 84 lbs by the spring of 2022. "I was always freezing. I was calling mobile IV teams to come to my house, and I couldn’t walk in my Los Angeles neighborhood because I was afraid of not having a place to sit down and catch my breath."

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While recovering from her severe eating disorder and BDD, she got another unexpected diagnosis - borderline personality disorder.

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A borderline personality disorder is a mental illness that can severely impact someone's ability to regulate their emotions, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. This can impact how someone feels about themselves and others.

Her major troubles came as she was coping with her father's devastating diagnosis that forced him to retire from acting - frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD). She wrote that while it was hard news to swallow, it motivated her recovery.

“In the past I was so afraid of being destroyed by sadness, but finally I feel that I can show up and be relied upon. I can savor that time, hold my dad’s hand, and feel that it’s wonderful,” Tallulah wrote in Vogue. “That whole thing about loving yourself before you can love somebody else — it’s real.”

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In May 2021, Tallulah Willis became engaged to film director Dillon Buss, with whom she'd been in a relationship since the spring of 2020. In 2023, she said he "dumped" her just months after her father revealed his own devastating diagnosis in 2023. But it seems that in 2024, she is happy with a new boo - Justin Acee.

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When she left treatment in Oct. 2022, she wrote that she felt a lot better. “I realized that what I wanted more than harmony with my body was harmony with my family — to no longer worry them, to bring a levity to my sisters and my parents. An emaciated body wouldn’t do that," she wrote in Vogue.

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Then, in 2024, Tallulah announced that she had autism. The neurodivergence was discovered during the many psychological tests that she had been taking. She's known since the summer of 2023 and told her followers about it in 2024. The diagnosis "changed my life," she said on Instagram.

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A simple look at the comments on her posts is enough to see all the people who appreciate that Tallulah shared her struggles. Her sisters Scout and Rumer constantly show their support for her as well.

Without a doubt, in times of shallowness and the imposition of reinforced standards on the web, Tallulah Willis has been courageous. She became a reference for mental health conditions that she is helping to make visible.

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