Demi Moore Stepped Away From The Hollywood Glitz And Glam To Raise Her Daughters In Idaho

Aug 15, 2022 by apost team

Demi Moore is an icon in her own right, and as she gears up to celebrate her milestone 60th birthday in November 2022, she’s hoping to defy cultural norms and feminine expectations with a new swimwear line honoring health and beauty at any age.

Moore rose to fame in the 1980s. According to Biography.com, Moore hit the big time in 1985 when she portrayed Jules in "St. Elmo's Fire" and subsequently became a core member of the "Brat Pack." According to Insider, the term "Brat Pack" was coined by New York Magazine journalist David Blum to describe Hollywood's rising young movie stars. The Brat Pack consisted of Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy.

Moore made her leading lady debut in "Ghost," where she starred alongside Patrick Swayze. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Goldberg ranked "Ghost" as one of Moore's most outstanding performances, while her roles in "A Few Good Men" and "About Last Night" were ranked second and third.

Since then, she's dominated the screen, appearing in movies such as "Striptease" and "G.I. Jane.” At one point in the late 1990s, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. She later enjoyed a resurgence with supporting roles in movies including "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle” and "Rough Night."

As a famous actress, Moore spent a lot of time on set considering all the movies she has starred in. But she wasn't only busy with work, as she also went through a public divorce from Bruce Willis and lost her mom to cancer. Following these major life moments, Moore decided to focus on raising her daughters over her career.

The year 1987 is when Moore and Willis' former love story began. According to Us Weekly, the pair tied the knot in November that year after previously meeting at the premiere of the film "Stakeout" just a few months earlier. Afterward, they started a beautiful family together and welcomed three daughters into the world: Rumer, born in 1988, Scout, born in 1991, and Tallulah, born in 1994.

While Moore and Willis appeared happy in the public eye, there were some complications behind the scenes. They shocked the world in June 1998 when they announced their separation and filed for divorce two years later. According to Us Weekly, their divorce was finalized the same day they submitted their paperwork in October 2000.

In an interview with The New York Times in 2019, Moore shared that before stepping away from the entertainment industry for a while she struggled with harsh public criticism. Moore said that being in the public eye “was an honor, and with that came a lot of negativity and a lot of judgment towards me, which I’m happy to have held if it made a difference.”

Not only did Moore take the acting field by storm as one of the leading ladies of the 1980s and 1990s, but she also fought for equal pay. Gwyneth Paltrow said she laid the way for women in acting. “She was really the first person who fought for pay equality and got it, and really suffered a backlash from it. We all certainly benefited from her,” Paltrow shared. 

However, dealing with public and private situations, Moore decided it was time to focus on her family rather than fame. 

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Stepping away from the glitz and glam to focus on raising her family, the star raised her three daughters away from big cities. Instead, Moore whisked the girls away to her home in Idaho. In an interview with People in 2008 she shared that she believed it was the right thing to do at the time. 

“It’s hard to say no to curious teenagers when exciting events or things are happening. You can’t live in a bubble. A key thing and I’ve said this before, is to try to help your children be good decision-makers,” the actress said. 

However, the mom is grateful for the experience. “I’m grateful for the grounding that being away from (Hollywood) gave them. As to being back, I’m still learning, too. Can I say that I’ll look back and everything was the right choice?” she said. “I’m sure I won’t. But that’s part of understanding that none of us are perfect, and I’ve never been exactly in the place that I am right now,” she added. 

Her daughters have said that the divorce between their parents never impacted their childhood in the first place. In an interview with Larry King, Rumer said, “I never had to split up vacations or split up birthdays.” She went on to say they always did events as a family unit. “They always made an effort to do all of the family events still together and made such an effort to still have our family be as one unit, as opposed to two separate things, which I think really made an impact.”

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