Demi Moore Shares Strong Message About Aging As She Embraces 'Getting Older'

Demi Moore shared a powerful message about aging that seems to be at variance with what most people think.

The "Ghost" star said people who think that "life is less" just because one is growing older are "mistaken."

Demi Moore has previously opened up about her struggles with the subject, but explained that her relationship with aging is now "much more in a joyous acceptance."

Moore challenged the stereotypes surrounding aging during a conversation with Stephen Colbert on his nightly show "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert."

The 63-year-old actress has been having a jolly good ride this year after scoring a Golden Globe award for best actress in "The Substance," as well as her leading role in "Landman," and being named among Glamour's "Women of the Year."

So naturally, she and Colbert got talking about her success in the November 11 episode of his eponymous show, where she made sure to let him know how she felt about it, especially as it doubled as her birthday.

"Wow. That's how I feel. Wow, what a great fun year," Moore said, per People Magazine. "I just feel like this is an amazing time, and anybody who thinks that getting older means life is less is sadly mistaken."

The "Margin Call" actress previously spoke about her struggles with aging while she was on the press tour for her 2024 horror film "The Substance," which follows the life of a failing celebrity who uses some kind of drug to create a younger version of herself.

In her December 2024 conversation with People Magazine on the red carpet of the Gotham Awards, she admittedly shared that she didn't use to see it gracefully but noted that her views had changed.

Moore said that she can see how "over the course of my whole life," she has spent too much time passing "judgment against myself."

"I can look back and go at 20, at 30, I was finding things that weren't good enough," she continued, adding, "My relationship with [aging] now is much more in a joyous acceptance."

Moore concluded by saying, "Of course, there are things that you go, 'Oh, I wish that was not that way,' but in terms of the whole, I see myself and the fullness of who I am as opposed to just the external idea of who I am."

Moore has had to deal with the complexity of caring for a loved one as her ex-husband Bruce Willis continues to struggle with his Frontotemporal dementia diagnosis. The former couple, who got married in 1987 before splitting in 2000, share three daughters: Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah.

Despite their split, they remained on friendly terms, so there was no side eyes or problems when she joined his wife Emma Willis for a benefit concert honoring him earlier this month.

The pair joined other stars for a private show organized by Soho Sessions in New York City, where they helped raise money and awareness for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, a charity organization that helps people affected by frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

"Bruce would have loved this. He always loved live music. [He'd be excited to see] all of them, because all of them are, you know, his friends," Emma told People Magazine ahead of the show. "I think that he would've definitely got up there and started playing his harmonica. I'm just grateful that they would show up for this. But they also have their special relationship with Bruce."

Guests at the event included Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael J. Fox, Tracy Pollan, and Whoopi Goldberg. The show also saw performances from Bruce's former neighbors, Keith Richards, Norah Jones, Mavis Staples, and Warren Haynes.

Back in October, Moore recounted how Tom Cruise was "quite embarrassed" by her pregnancy for Scout while they were rehearsing for the 1992 film "A Few Good Men."

The actress alleged that there was a stigma against actresses who chose to have children, but said she didn't put up with it.

At the time, she was eight months pregnant but was still rehearsing her lines with Cruise and Rob Reiner ahead of the film's production.

"I think Tom was quite embarrassed," Moore said. "I actually felt okay about it. I was moving around, though, right? But I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward."

She went further to note that she thinks Cruise may have been "uncomfortable" at the time because not many of their colleagues were having children, as there was some sort of "pressure to choose between pursuing a career and being a mother."

"It's one of the many things, for me, that I just felt didn't make sense," Moore said about the alleged stigma mothers face in Hollywood.

She added, "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."