Inside Demi Moore's raw vegan diet: How the 62-year-old stays healthy
Demi Moore is everywhere right now, thanks to her award-winning role as a famous aerobics instructor in the critically acclaimed body horror film The Substance. The 62-year-old won Best Actress at Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony, and her acceptance speech served as a poignant reminder of the damaging nature of contemporary beauty standards.
The 62-year-old is naked a lot in the movie, and it’s hard to miss the fact that she looks incredibly fit and healthy (when she’s not morphing into a monster, of course).
With that, it’s only fair to wonder what Demi, is eating these days. Here’s what she’s shared over the past few years.
What does Demi Moore eat?
Demi hasn’t spoken about her eating plan recently, but she reportedly follows a raw vegan diet, per the Daily Mail. This diet focuses on foods that are uncooked or are heated below 118 degrees Fahrenheit.
This meal plan can be healthy if the person is ‘intentional about meeting their nutritional needs,’ says Jessica Cording, registered dietician and author of The Little Book of Game-Changers. Followers should be sure to get their daily nutrients so they don't get calcium, vitamin D, or protein deficiencies, adds Keri Gans, registered dietician and author of The Small Change Diet.
While many fans of raw vegan diets say that it helps make some nutrients more available, Cording says that’s not entirely accurate. ‘It is true that certain nutrients are more available in their raw form, but there are others that are more available when cooked, like cooked tomatoes and carrots,’ she says.
Food safety is also a potential concern with this approach, says Cording. ‘You have to be mindful of safe handling, safe storage… cooking is important for protecting against some foodborne pathogens.’
Demi Moore on sobriety
In addition to managing her diet, Demi also avoids alcohol. ‘I had almost 20 years of sobriety. I had a detour. And now I have over 12 years,’ she told The New York Times last September.
Demi said that it was tough to become sober again after she stopped in 2012. ‘When you have that much time and you open the door, it’s difficult, because there’s a part of you that feels like you want to prove that you can manage it,’ she said. ‘And managing it, it is just not in my makeup. But I sure gave it a hell of a shot.’
Now, Demi also feels ‘emotionally sober’, she told the Times. ‘To be emotionally sober means how I’m choosing to live my life, the quality of how I interact with people, my ability to show up for others. That’s all within my emotional sobriety,’ she says. ‘Now I know I can go into a room... and if I’m uncomfortable, I don’t need to try to take the edge off it. I can actually just go: “Oh, wow. Isn’t that interesting? I’m a little uncomfortable right now”.’
Demi Moore has given up ‘hard exercise’
Aside from fueling her body, Demi also uses exercise to stay fit. She's frequently spotted coming out of Pilates classes with her daughters, per the Daily Mail.
But Demi has a bit of a complicated relationship with workouts, writing in her 2019 memoir Inside Out that she had an ‘obsession’ with them in the 1990s. Eventually, she had enough.
‘I added into my daily prayer a new mantra: to have the courage to be seen without padding or protection. I couldn’t go on fighting my body and my weight; I had to make peace,’ she wrote. ‘I started by giving up hard exercise. I never went back into the gym in the house. Never. The room it occupied is now my office.’
Demi Moore Inside Out: A Memoir
Demi Moore on getting older
Over the years, Demi has also opened up about ageing. She has ‘loose skin,’ she shared in an April episode of Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast – something she never used to consider.
‘Skin is going, and having its own program,’ she joked. ‘I have a friend who used to say, “Oh, this loose skin,” and of course my arrogance was like, “Yeah….’’ I had no connection to it. Now it’s hitting me of what she was talking about.’
Now, Demi is way more accepting of her body.
‘I put so much pressure on myself,’ she told CBS Sunday Morning on September 22. ‘I did have experiences of being told to lose weight. And all of those, while they may have been embarrassing and humiliating, it’s what I did to myself because of that.’
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