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Tallulah Willis has opened up about overcoming bullying after receiving years of negative comments based on her appearance
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The daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore named blogger Perez Hilton as someone who criticized her features
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“My hope for him is that this can invite some inward reflection on past behavior,” she said
Tallulah Willis is taking back her power.
In a post shared to Instagram on Wednesday, Oct. 8, the 31-year-old daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, opened up about learning to embrace her features after years of hating them due to online bullying.
“My Lordy! if I am NOT this man’s child,” the actress captioned a carousel, which alternated between pictures of herself and her famous father, 70.
The images showed shots of Tallulah with facial expressions similar to Bruce’s.
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Tallulah Willis at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles
Tallulah noted that seeing the resemblance for herself was “making [her] so full and emotional,” before explaining why she hadn’t always been proud to say that.
“The face, the smile, dare I say it the chin (hey @perez remember when you bullied a 13 year old for money?) that made me want to end it all, is now the most precious gift I could be bestowed with,” she wrote, calling out blogger Perez Hilton.
A rep for Hilton did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment, but the blogger did comment “Hello, please check your DMs” under Tallulah’s post.
In her lengthy post, Tallulah went on to say that she “used to not be able to say the word chin out loud” because 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,” she wrote. “What a cursed child I was for inheriting this joyful, expressive feature, alive with emotion! I’m angry at the adults [who] 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!”
She ended her post wishing everyone love, which is what she received in her comments section.
Ireland Baldwin, the 29-year-old daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, was one of many who offered her support, while also sharing her alleged experience with Hilton, 47.
“Perez Hilton bullied me about my chin at some point too!!!! Yayyyy chins!!!!” the model and actress wrote.
Sailor Brinkley Cook, the daughter of model Christie Brinkley, wrote, “We all have a Perez story 😅🥲💪 you’re as gorgeous as you are powerful.”
Tallulah’s oldest sister, Rumer Willis, added, “I love you so much.”
In a follow-up post that same day, Tallulah screenshotted a past post from Hilton’s self-titled website that began, “Bruce Willis’s youngest spawn, Tallulah, lets her butt all hang out.”
The image included within the article at the time was no longer available, but Tallulah’s Instagram carousel provided the photographs. One was a picture of her taken from behind as she hugged her dad while wearing short shorts for a daytime shopping outing in West Hollywood.
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Tallulah Willis; Perez Hilton
His post went on to say, “If that were our fugly child, we would have bought her a pair of pants!”
After calling him out for “sexualizing a little 14 year olds body as a thirty f—— year old man,” who caused “hurt and damage” that “stayed with me for too long,” Tallulah said, “I did not break. I healed, I rose and I conquered.”
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She later updated her caption, adding, “My hope for him is that this can invite some inward reflection on past behavior, and explore what was underneath the pull to tear people down. I wish him and his family well. All we can do is kindness.”
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