Demi Moore Biked 60 Miles a Day to Lose Weight After Childbirth

We’ve heard some heartbreaking things about how women feel pressure to bounce back after welcoming a baby. We’ve heard the societal pressures of women feeling the need to lose weight right away, and in recent years, many women, including celebrities, have clapped back at that notion. However, Demi Moore just gave insight into the harsh way she tried to put her body into the way it was before kids, which included biking 60 miles a day. (Yes, you read that right, 60 miles a day.)

In a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the Substance actress talked about how she felt so much pressure to lose weight right away after giving birth, and she went to rather extreme measures to do so.

“I put so much pressure on myself,” Moore recalled. “I did have experiences of being told to lose weight. And all of those, while they may have been embarrassing and humiliating, it’s what I did to myself because of that.”

She discussed how she biked 60 miles a day while filming the movie Indecent Proposal. She’d bike from her home to the set, which was 30 miles to there.

“I think she was, like, five or six months old when we were shooting [Indecent Proposal]. So, I was feeding her through the night, getting up in the dark with a trainer, with headlamp, biking all the way to Paramount, wherever, even on location where we were shooting; then shooting a full day, which is usually a 12-hour day; and then starting all over again,” she said. “Even just the idea of, like, what I did to my body, it’s, like, so crazy, so ridiculous.”

Scout LaRue Willis, Tallulah Willis, Demi Moore and Rumer Willis at the Los Angeles premiere of — Scout LaRue Willis, Tallulah Willis, Demi Moore and Rumer Willis
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It’s so heartbreaking that so many women feel the need to do so, but we do love that women are being more vulnerable, more open about their experiences. We’re heartbroken that Moore had to go through that, but she’s made it clear that she’s living her best life now (and we seriously love to hear that).

For those who don’t know, Moore and her ex husband Bruce Willis welcomed three daughters named Rumer Glenn, born in 1988, Scout LaRue, born in 1991, and Tallulah Belle, born in 1994.

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