Demi Moore says for years she was obsessed with her body.
The star, 47, married to actor Ashton Kutcher, 32, said her obsession with the way she looked once got so bad she measured her whole self-worth by it.
“I had an extreme obsession with my body. I made it a measure of my own value,” Moore told Elle magazine.
“I tried to dominate it, which I did, and I changed it multiple times over.
“But it never lasted and ultimately it didn’t bring me anything but temporary happiness.
“Does being thin resolve anything? No. The irony is that when I abandoned that desire to dominate my body, it actually became the body that I always wanted. At the end of the day, this kind of obsession is pointless and meaningless.”
Moore, whose films include “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” “G.I. Jane” and “Ghost,” admitted to having plastic surgery, but said it was nowhere near the amount reported in the press.
It was widely rumored that she spent $300,000 on a total body transformation.
“I have had something done but it’s not on my face,” she said.
Now happily married to Kutcher, 15 years her junior, Demi says the age difference is not an issue.
‘Every once in a while it’s funny if I think, “When I was this age, you were in second grade…”, but really we’re equal partners in this.’
And she says they haven’t ruled out having a child together.
‘We talk about it and it’s something that we would like.
‘He’s an amazing father to my daughters already, so I have no doubt that if it’s in our future, it would be another incredible part of our journey together.’
A Bel-Air mansion owned by Nicolas Cage has found no takers in a foreclosure auction.
The opening bid for the actor’s 12,000-square-foot home was $10.4 million, but there are $18 million worth of loans on the property.
The Tudor mansion boasts six bedrooms, a central tower, home theater and an Olympic-sized pool. The house reverted to the foreclosing lender at Wednesday’s auction in Pomona.
Even though he’s one of Hollywood’s highest-paid stars, Cage has money troubles. He owes millions in unpaid taxes and in January his foreclosed home in Las Vegas sold for nearly $5 million.
Cage sued his former business manager in October for $20 million, claiming the man’s advice led him toward financial ruin.
The ex-manager says Cage is a spendthrift.
Megan Fox and her sometime boyfriend, actor Brian Austin Green, are protesting California school budget cuts in a new video online.
In a video posted Wednesday on the comic website FunnyorDie.com, Fox urges viewers to “call, write and annoy the governor until he cries for his mommy.” She says more than $17 billion has been cut from state educational programs over the past two years, and Green says the “terminators in Sacramento” plan to cut another $2.5 billion.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell said last month that budget cuts have caused a 17 percent jump in the number of school districts facing financial uncertainty.
Fox and Green’s 3 1/2-minute video had been viewed more than 66,500 times by Wednesday afternoon.
Oprah Winfrey is set to host an hour-long primetime show, titled “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” on her new cable network.
The series will feature interviews with celebrities in unlikely places, from the Taj Mahal to the Great Wall to Winfrey’s own teahouse – anywhere but inside a stuffy studio.
“My vision for OWN is to create a network that inspires our viewers and makes them want to be who they are on their best day,” Winfrey said in a statement Thursday.
“Oprah’s Next Chapter” will debut on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, late next year and will most likely go head-to-head with some of primetime’s biggest hits, like “American Idol” and “The Biggest Loser.”
OWN, a joint venture between Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. and Discovery Communications, is scheduled to debut on Jan. 1, replacing Discovery Health. It will feature 24-hour programming.
Until today, Winfrey’s on-air role on the network was unknown but other projects, such as “Inside With Lisa Ling” and “Oprah Presents: Master Class,” featuring personalities such as Jay-Z, Simon Cowell and Condoleezza Rice, have already been unveiled.
Winfrey, 56, announced back in November that she was ending her highly rated “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2011, after 25 years. Her last day will be Sept. 9 next year.
lsmith@denverpost.com
