Read Tallulah Willis' Emotional Reflection On Eating Disorder Recovery

• On Wednesday, actress Tallulah Willis made an emotional post reflecting on her eating disorder recovery.
  

• The star shared that she's been "romanticizing unhealthy times," but told fans that it's OK to be "in the middle of the messy."
  

• Tallulah first revealed her struggles with anorexia in 2023.

Content warning: This article contains discussions of eating disorders.

Tallulah Willis is reminding everyone that it’s OK to have bad days, too. The 30-year-old, who's the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, has been candid about her struggles with anorexia after first revealing her diagnosis last year. And on Wednesday, Tallulah penned an emotional Instagram post about her journey, addressing all “ED recovery babies.”

“Sending love to you all, I’m having an intens[e] moment of romanticizing unhealthy times and how it felt to move through the day in that size body," she wrote in the post, alongside a series of sweet childhood photos. "Just wanted to voice it because I know (hope) I’m not alone."

"This little raggymuffin is so special and it’s strange to know that and want to give her abundance and vitality - LIFE! whilst at the EXACT same moment feeling pulled by an old desire, deep down from the pit spot in your belly, to compare to the 'better' version of me," she added. "AND it’s ok to be in the middle of the messy and not totally have it all sorted yet. 🌾☀️"

Friends, family, and fans alike praised Tallulah for her vulnerability, leaving support in her comments section.

“🙏🏻 thank you for this. Truly a thought that consumes more people than we know. ❤️” Esther McGregor, an actress and the daughter of Star Wars star Ewan McGregor, wrote.

“You are magic, your truth is so vital, and I’m so lucky to be your sister,” her sister Rumer Willis added.

Tallulah first opened up about her eating disorder in a May 2023 Vogue essay. In the post, she shared that she has struggled with body dysmorphia ever since she was 11. At the time, Tallulah discovered hateful comments that were left on photos of her, after attending an event with mom Demi and her then-partner Ashton Kutcher.

“I found my way to the comments, hundreds of them, the words just burning off the screen," she wrote. "'Wow, she looks deformed. Look at her man jaw—she’s like an ugly version of her dad. Her mother must be so disappointed.'...I sat reading for two hours, believing that I had stumbled onto a truth about myself that no one had told me because they were trying to protect me. And for years afterward, protecting people right back, I told no one. I just lived with the silent certainty of my own ugliness."

In the essay, Tallulah admitted that she first sought treatment for her mental health when she was 20 years old, and got sober. When she was 25, she began suffering from anorexia nervosa, after being given ADHD medication—which also had appetite suppressant side effects—at a residential treatment facility in Malibu. And, she wrote, "like so many people with eating disorders, my sense of myself went haywire."

“By the spring of 2022, I weighed about 84 pounds," she said. "I was always freezing. I was calling mobile IV teams to come to my house, and I couldn’t walk in my Los Angeles neighborhood because I was afraid of not having a place to sit down and catch my breath."

This was also around the time that she learned that her dad Bruce had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.

Now, Tallulah is on the road to recovery after being treated at Driftwood Recovery, a Texas residential treatment facility, in the spring of 2022. Over a year later, she shared a photograph of her body pre-recovery, showing off just how far she's come.

“I love her. And I love her, and I see how courageous she’s been. steady on the course my bbs ☀️,” she captioned the photo.

We're rooting for you, Tallulah!

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