Forget Secrets – Demi Moore’s Hair Is Full Of “History, Energy And Prayers”

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis in 1997.

Trevor Gillespie

Asked to reflect on her buzz cut days, Moore says she felt more naked than any of the times she appeared in nude scenes. “I didn’t have [hair] to play with or to hide with,” she recalls, “but it was a beautiful part of becoming more comfortable with myself, and shedding the need to make myself into something [else].”

This meditative outlook radiates from Moore, who is in fact, I learn, on a 245-day meditation streak when we speak. The daily practice has made a huge difference to her life, she says. Beyond that, the things keeping Moore tethered include a group chat (her “sisterhood”), where the members share three things daily they’re grateful for, three things they fear or find challenging, and an affirmation or attribute they wish to possess.

“We’re a communal species – our nature is to want to share,” she explains, when I ask how this text chain of positivity came into being. Being held accountable is important to Moore and this method is a way of “allowing yourself to be seen and to know you’re not alone”. Mostly, she says, it’s a reminder that we, as human beings, are more alike than we are different.

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Finding connection is Moore’s MO. Whether it’s with her family (they’ve just established a family reading club that I’d quite like to join), or in her work (Moore describes being shot by Inez and Vinoodh for the Kérastase campaign as a “freeing, liberated” experience), there’s something in her that compels her to find the common ground. Or at least, something basic to share. More than that, she’s comfortable in her own skin.

“I love that I experimented when I was younger and it’s something I encourage in other people, but, at a certain point, I got to what I felt was most comfortable, most at ease and most a reflection of me, and it was something quite simple,” she says, beaming into the camera.