Demi Moore explained how life‑changing advice helped her let go of striving for perfection. The actress also said she believes in challenging societal norms around gender and aging. Moore spoke during a recent Power Talks panel discussion hosted by Kérastase in Los Angeles on March 3.
Demi Moore opened up about why she no longer aspires to perfection.
Moore shared her candid thoughts during the Power Talks panel at NYA Studios in Los Angeles on March 3. She said she once pushed herself to be “perfect,” but her perspective shifted after receiving some transformative wisdom.
“I had somebody say something so interesting about being perfect, because I certainly have been trapped by trying to be perfect,” Moore, 63, said. “They asked, ‘Do you know anyone that’s perfect?’ I said no. ‘Do you know anything that’s perfect?’ Again, no. And he said, ‘Well, why would you want to be no one and nothing?’”
The Substance star also said she tries not to limit herself based on arbitrary societal rules around gender and aging.
“I remember being told, ‘When you get to a certain age, you should cut your hair, you shouldn’t have long hair.’ And it didn’t make sense to me why that was some collective rule that existed,” she explained.
“And I felt like, ‘Well, who says that’s how it has to be? Why shouldn’t you wear your hair however you feel the most beautiful, the most comfortable, the most confident?’ So I let my hair grow, and I am quite attached to it,” she added.
Moore went on to say that she firmly believes getting older doesn’t mean you stop changing.
“I feel like the greatest gift that I can give my children — the greatest gift that I can give myself — is to work on myself to become better every day,” she said.
“If I wake up in gratitude, then I can step into that day already from a space of openness and possibility,” she added. “And I always tell my children that the only thing we can truly count on — the only true constant — is change. We can either flow with it or resist it and be limited by it. And I would much rather be in the flow,” the Landman actress continued.
“And I want to know at the end of my life that I’ve done everything possible to really step into the fullness of who I am. In our early days, we don’t know who that is. And sitting here at 63, I can say I’m still in discovery,” she added.
