Demi Moore 'wanted to prove doubters wrong'
Demi Moore never wanted to choose between a career in Hollywood and motherhood.
Demi Moore put "a lot of pressure" on herself in her early years in Hollywood.
The 62-year-old actress always refused to choose between pursuing a career in the film business and being a mother - but she now admits that her stance added an extra layer of pressure.
Demi - who has Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, with ex-husband Bruce Willis - said during a question-and-answer session with Jia Tolentino at the New Yorker Festival: "It's one of the many things, for me, that I just felt didn't make sense. And so I challenged that to say, you know, ‘Why not? Why can't you have both?’ But with that, I think, came a lot of pressure I put on myself to, in a sense, prove that it was possible."
Demi was actually pregnant with Scout when she filmed A Few Good Men, the 1992 legal drama film, and the actress believes that Tom Cruise, her co-star in the movie, actually felt "embarrassed" by her pregnancy during preproduction.
She said: "I think Tom was quite embarrassed. I actually felt okay about it. I was moving around, though, right? But I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward."
Demi previously confessed that she felt like she "didn't belong" in Hollywood after having children.
The actress recalled feeling out of place in the movie industry after welcoming her daughters.
She told Interview magazine: "I had done Charlie’s Angels, and there was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk about how I looked.
"And then I found that there didn’t seem to be a place for me. I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. It’s more like I felt that feeling of, I’m not 20, I’m not 30, but I wasn’t yet what they perceived as a mother ... Where do I fit in? It was a time that felt, not dead, but flat."
