Tallulah Willis celebrated her resemblance to her famous dad Bruce Willis while calling out adults who bullied her looks as a teenager.
The actress, 31, shared the gospel of self-love in an Instagram post that embraced all of her features that are similar to that of the Willis patriarch, including her smile and “dare I say it, the chin” that once made her “want to end it all.”
“My Lordy! if I am NOT this man’s child,” Tallulah captioned a series of photos of herself and dad Bruce. The features she was once insecure about are now “the most precious gift I could be bestowed with,” Tallulah wrote.
Tallulah and Bruce Willis.
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She also appeared to call out media blogger Perez Hilton: “Remember when you bullied a 13-year-old for money?”
“I used to not be able to say the word chin out loud,” Tallulah continued. “It was my dirty sinful malady, center stage for all the world to see. At least that’s what you guys said, over and over and over and over.”
“What a cursed child I was for inheriting this joyful, expressive feature, alive with emotion!” Tallulah added. “I’m angry at the adults [that] planted the seeds of self hate, and I’m proud of myself for the work I’ve [done] to rip that hate out from the roots!”
A rep for Hilton didn’t immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for comment on the post.
Tallulah Willis with mom Demi Moore and sisters Rumer and Scout.
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Tallulah is one of the three daughters Bruce shares with ex-wife Demi Moore, to whom he was married from 1987 to 2000. The Die Hard actor is also dad to daughters Mabel and Evelyn with current wife Emma Heming Willis. His family announced in 2022 that he would step away from acting following an aphasia diagnosis that has since progressed to frontotemporal dementia.
“While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis,” his family said in an update in 2023, adding, “Today there are no treatments for the disease, a reality that we hope can change in the years ahead. As Bruce’s condition advances, we hope that any media attention can be focused on shining a light on this disease that needs far more awareness and research.”
Tallulah often shares photo updates with her father, including the above “Sunday funday” post from over the summer.