In what’s fast becoming a bit of a tradition for the Moore-Willis children, Tallulah Willis has just stripped down to her underwear in order to draw attention to some important issues. Whereas last time it was Scout Willisposting a topless photo in order to draw attention to the Free The Nipple Campaign, this time it’s her 20-year-old sister Tallulah who’s stripped down in a new video for StyleLikeU and delivers some real talk about how vacuous the celeb party scene really is.
‘I think there’s this culture that’s being perpetuated that’s all about who’s cooler,' Tallulah said, removing her clothes as part of the website’s ‘What’s Underneath?’ project. 'Maybe they are living in the moment and maybe they are just really that cool, but for the most part I think it’s much more about [them saying] “Look what designer thing I’m wearing, or bag I’m carrying with these people, at this event that you can’t go to”. And they’re not even enjoying it! It’s just such a vacant way to live.’
Obviously – having grown up as the daughter of two of the most famous actors of their generation – Tallulah is no doubt talking about the celebrity party circuit but, equally, who can’t relate to what she's describing? Who hasn’t been at one of those allegedly cool parties, surrounded by allegedly trendy people, allegedly having the most instagramable time of their lives before realising – actually – everyone’s too concerned with how they look to be having a good time.
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But that's not all Tallulah's truth-talking about. She also touches poignantly on a long-held battle with body dysmorphia. 'I struggled a lot when I was younger. Like I'm diagnosed with body dysmorphia with reading those stupid fucking tabloids when I was like 13 and feeling like I was ugly, like always. I believed the strangers more than the people who loved me because why would the people who love me be honest?' she says. 'That made me start to dress showing off my boobs and my butt and those things that I was getting attention for. I was trapped in this body. I started starving myself and losing a bunch of weight and I got down to like 95 pounds. When I lost my curves and, when my boobs shriveled up into like nothing, and I had no shape, it put me in even more of a cage.'
Props to Tallulah for speaking the truth about the struggles of growing up in the public eye. And escaping them with her super-cult new blog The Clothing Coven, too.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.