Tallulah Willis filmed herself scrolling through the comment section under her own photograph, and then told everyone what reading it brings back.
The actress, 32 and the youngest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, posted an Instagram reel on Nov. 2, 2026, built from a screen recording of herself moving through the remarks left beneath a picture of her. “People seem shocked -genuinely- when I share my experience being called ‘medically disfigured’ ‘or something to fear’,” she wrote in the comments of the reel.
“I don’t often read these things, but when I do, I remember why I almost starved to death after a lifetime of disordered eating,” Tallulah wrote in the caption.
“I take pride in that fact that I choose kindness everyday, but I just hope to share with you all the realities that someone who has been unstoppably vulnerable in sharing their ups and downs still gets treated like this on certain corners of the internet,” she posted. The caption closed with a line aimed straight back at one of the comments: “And for the record, I am far from what nightmares are made of #choosekindness.”
The Remarks She Scrolled Past
“What nightmares are made of,” read one of the comments captured in her recording.
Another remarked on the wonders surgery can do for people. A third ranked her father’s looks above her own. One person wrote that she was not easy on the eyes, and another suggested she had some sort of medical condition. Others went after her family.
From a Recovery Facility to Vogue
Tallulah has lived with anorexia, and her hair began falling out during her struggle with the disorder. In 2022 she received treatment at a recovery facility, documenting the stay for her followers as it happened.
The May 2023 issue of Vogue carried her disclosure that she had been suffering from anorexia nervosa for the previous four years. That November she discussed the eating disorder on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” describing how visible the illness had been in the age of social media and recalling the volume of concern that arrived on her Instagram page. She was early in recovery at the time, she said, without full footing, trying every day.
She told the audience she wanted to speak about it because sharing how frightening and how hard it had been felt important.
Why Costumes Feel Different Now
Recovery reaches into ordinary things, including Halloween. In a Nov. 1 post, Tallulah said the idea of costumes no longer stirs anything in her, though she is aware that she enjoyed dressing up when her body was a different size.
Neither version of herself is the wrong one, she wrote, but the feelings attached to the change should not be brushed aside. She said she wanted to put that in front of other people who have been through something similar.
A newlywed, Tallulah has been transparent about her recovery from disordered eating and about her sobriety, and the reel was another installment in that running public account — this time with the audience’s own words as the material.
Anyone struggling with an eating disorder can reach The Alliance for Eating Disorders through its staffed helpline at 1-866-662-1235, which also offers free support groups led by therapists. In the U.K., Beat Eating Disorders can be reached on 0808 801 0677.
Her Husband Replied in the Comments
The response to the reel ran the other way. Supportive messages poured in beneath it, including one from a fan who told her she had come a long way and that strangers passing judgment did not know the half of it.
“I love you, you’re beautiful,” wrote her husband, the musician Justin Acee.