But her privileged upbringing doesn’t mean she’s breezed through life.
“[She’s] supposed to be my rock,” Willis said.
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“[It] did not reflect her environment, her insecurity, her self-loathing.
“My mom doesn’t love herself, so how can I?”
Sadly, Willis' lack of confidence continued when she was relentlessly bullied as a teenager.
Willis said she considered getting plastic surgery and losing weight to make the bullying stop.
Willis also spoke toHuffPostfour years later about the cruel jibes.
“They said I had a huge jaw …
Though the star wasn’t convinced by every diagnosis, she knew she’d experienced PTSD.
“[It] came from my childhood.
“When your life gets taken over, you have no control over that any more …
I couldn’t stop myself from getting hurt.
And I couldn’t prevent the explosions.”
“I literally started getting anxiety attacks about how bad I was going to feel the next day.
So I would be drunk and start hyperventilating and freak out,” she said.
In January 2024, she told fans viaInstagramshe’d found vitamins that made her struggles more manageable.
Willis didn’t fare much better with the father of her daughter, Derek Richard Thomas.
“I’m so grateful for Lou.
Lifethree months later, she touched on the difficulties of life as a single mom.
In February 2023, Willis shared a photo of her dad onInstagramin happier times on the beach.
“Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces.
In June 2022, shepostedthree snaps of herself and the actor when she was a child.
“Daddio[.]
What a privilege it is every day to be your daughter.
I love you so much.
You are the coolest cat in town,” she wrote.
“Really missing my papa today,” she wrote, alongside a crying emoji.
In December 2024, she shared anInstagramselfie of herself and her daughter and explained her social media absence.
The single mom also wrote about how difficult she’d found seeing her daughter unwell.
But Willis appeared determined to make it through her difficult end to the year.
She wrote that she planned to go into 2025 by making things better for herself and her daughter.
