Bruce Willis’ daughter shares how ‘severe anorexia’ resulted in hair loss

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Tallulah Willis, daughter of actor Bruce Willis, is opening up about her own health not long after fans got an update on her father’s struggles with frontotemporal dementia.

Tallulah Willis detailed her hair loss journey that resulted from her battle with “severe anorexia” in an Instagram post Sunday, June 29.

The 31-year-old, whose mother is Demi Moore, posted a few photos that were taken in summer 2022 while she was at Driftwood Recovery in Austin, Texas.

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“I want to talk about how I for a long time in my life I would have seen those patches of bare skin blurring through sparse hairs as a badge of honor,” Willis wrote. “I had such breakable and fragile hair, so thinned I had to use thousand clippies to keep things in place. And usually they slipped off because they nothing to grab into. I chose to crop some of them because for me this truly isn’t a stage to show off how I nearly starved to death (publicly!), but I think the photos serve as a teaching tool.”

Willis then posted several pictures from this past spring that captured how her hair has grown back since going through rehab.

“I didn’t realize how comforting a big bun could feel like, how sexy it feels for your hair bounce a little when you walk,” she wrote. “I didn’t value myself or my health but I am of the lucky who have made it to the other side.”

This is not the first time Willis, who became engaged to fiancé Justin Acee in December, has opened up about her eating disorder. She noted that she made her disorder public, and now wants to share her recovery as well.

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“I want to heal and hug and soothe every busy mind that’s out there still hurting,” Willis wrote. “Keep going I love u all.”

If you or someone you know thinks they have an eating disorder, then seek help. If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, then contact a suicide hotline by calling or texting 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The hotline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

People can also use the Lifeline Chat. Services are free and confidential. The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the U.S. has a Spanish language phone line at 1-888-628-9454 (toll-free).