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Rumer Willis Reveals Break Up With Boyfriend and Shares Health Update connected Dad Bruce Willis
Rumer Willis is navigating coparenting similar a pro.
The 35-year-old—who shares girl Louetta, 17 months, with ex Derek Richard Thomas—shared immoderate penetration into their caller section aft their split earlier this year.
"Derek and I person an unbelievable coparenting narration and relationship that’s truthful loving and wonderful," the oldest girl of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore exclusively told E! News astatine a screening of Trail of Vengeance by SkipStone Pictures. "I person specified an unthinkable illustration of that with my parents, that that's created specified a beauteous instauration for us."
Bruce and Demi—who besides share Scout Willis, 32, and Tallulah Willis, 30—were joined for implicit a decennary earlier getting divorced successful 1998, and Rumer is hoping to travel successful their footsteps of maintaining a adjacent relationship aft a breakup.
"He’s inactive my champion friend," she said of Derek. "So it's conscionable a antithetic chapter."
Rumer, who was precocious spotted kissing a enigma man, shared the quality of their divided during an Aug. 22 Instagram Q&A, saying that she's "single momming it and coparenting."
"I'm truthful grateful for Lou," she added astatine the time. "She is the champion happening successful my beingness and I'm everlastingly grateful I was capable to person the clip successful that narration for her to travel into my life."
The erstwhile mates debuted their narration connected Instagram successful November 2022, 1 period earlier announcing that they were expecting their archetypal kid together. They welcomed Louetta successful April 2023.
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"She's the lone grandchild. It's conscionable nice," Rumer continued. "I consciousness similar being capable to stock successful immoderate benignant of, you know, similar a caller beingness and [usher successful the] grandchildren era, is conscionable specified a beauteous thing."
As for however her celebrated parents are arsenic first-time grandparents, Rumer said that Demi is an "amazing" grandma who lets Louetta get distant with a spot much than she does.
"She's truly funny," she shared. "She gets to bash each the contraband worldly implicit astatine her location similar ticker movies and [eat] snacks."
The histrion went connected to accidental that her Bruce—who stepped backmost from acting amid his conflict with frontotemporal dementia—is a full natural, "especially due to the fact that he's specified a miss dada anyway."
She added, "I mean, having different miss is beauteous cool."
Keep speechmaking for much connected Rumer's clip arsenic a mother.
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The histrion went connected to accidental that her Bruce—who stepped backmost from acting amid his conflict with frontotemporal dementia—is a full natural, "especially due to the fact that he's specified a miss dada anyway."
She added, "I mean, having different miss is beauteous cool."
Keep speechmaking for much connected Rumer's clip arsenic a mother.
--Reporting by Amanda Champagne-Meadows
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Welcome to the World, Lou
Rumer Willis welcomed her archetypal kid with boyfriend Derek Thomas successful April 2023, introducing their daughter Louetta Isley Thomas Willis to the satellite successful an Instagram post.
"You are axenic magic," Rumer captioned the photo. "You are much than we ever dreamed of."
Rumer, the eldest girl of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, revealed Lou was calved astatine location and aboriginal shared images of her commencement experience.
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A Love Letter
One period aft Lou's birth, Rumer penned an affectional connection to her daughter, sharing that she had "waited and dreamed of you my full life."
"You person changed my beingness successful the astir profound way," The House Bunny histrion continued. "It is the privilege and grant of my beingness to beryllium your Mother and I volition bash everything and thing for you always. I anticipation you ne'er halt wanting to slumber adjacent to maine oregon instrumentality baths with me."
Rumer went connected to convey her sisters, Tallulah Willis and Scout Willis, for supporting her done her gestation and at-home commencement experience.
"To my sisters, my champion friends, my partners successful crime," she wrote, "to person you determination to stock successful the infinitesimal that I was capable to bring my miss successful the satellite is simply a infinitesimal I volition ne'er forget. You person watched and supported maine connected the travel and cognize what it meant to bring different precious miss into our lineage."
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Waiting connected You, Lou
"One of the archetypal things I said aft you were calved was 'oh my girl, I missed you,'" Rumer revealed successful a May 2023 Instagram post. "I consciousness similar one person ever known you and you me. You are the astir beauteous carnal I person ever met."
The actress added, "Every infinitesimal and contraction and each spot of the symptom of commencement was worthy it and I would bash it a 1000 times implicit if it means getting to walk 1 sec with you."
Life Partner
"I americium truthful grateful to person you successful my beingness and our daughters life," Rumer captioned a day station for Thomas successful 2023. "You are specified a large dada and our miss is truthful fortunate to telephone you papa."
"Best Girl Dad successful the Game"
Rumer paid tribute to her dada connected Father's Day 2023, penning that seeing the Die Hard actor—who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia earlier this year—hold his archetypal grandchild arsenic "something I volition treasure for the remainder of my life."
"His sweetness and emotion for her was truthful axenic and beautiful," Rumer shared of Bruce. "Papa I'm truthful fortunate to person you and truthful is Lou. Thank you for being the silliest, astir loving, coolest Daddio a miss could inquire for."
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It's the Little Things
In an August 2023 post, Rumer listed respective beingness happenings that had brought her joyousness lately, including putting "tiny bows successful tiny hairs," the "most precious toed buttons" and "mini naps with mini hands."
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Self-Love
Just days earlier her 35th birthday, Rumer posed nude successful an Instagram photo, reflecting connected her assemblage representation successful the caption.
Sharing that she had spent "so galore years trying to signifier and mold" her assemblage into thing she "thought was desirable," the Dancing With the Stars champion celebrated that she is "a small softer and rounder and jiggly and different" aft giving birth.
"That's ok, much than good it's benignant of astonishing due to the fact that I grew a idiosyncratic wrong of it," she wrote. "I cognize my assemblage is inactive readjusting, but immoderate signifier it ends up successful I americium conscionable grateful for each that it did and continues to do."
Acknowledging her "ongoing process of transformation," Rumer explained that she was "grateful for each twist and turn" of her postpartum journey.
"My breasts, mightiness beryllium bigger and possibly ever truthful drifting downward but what a acquisition and privilege that they tin provender and supply nourishment for my Lou," she wrote. "They besides marque a fantastic pillow portion we cosleep. My hips and tummy, present softer and rounder, cradle my girl successful safety, warmth, and love."
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Birthday Girl
Rumer marked her 35th day by sharing a photograph of herself breastfeeding Lou, penning connected Instagram, "This past twelvemonth has travel with truthful overmuch growth, truthful galore challenges and fears to flooded but close on broadside much joyousness than I could ever imagine. I genuinely learned what it is to surrender into the deepest halfway of myself and find a spot and a primal powerfulness I didn't cognize I had."
"This caller mentation of maine is idiosyncratic I emotion much than I ever thought I could. I consciousness much comfy successful my skin," she continued. "More assured than I ever imagined. I person known for truthful galore years that being a parent would bring maine into alignment with a divine intent I person ever felt and to known that my intuition was close has fixed maine a spot wrong myself that I americium truthful profoundly grateful for."
Ups & Downs
Of course, parenthood comes with challenges, too. And successful October 2023, Rumer reflected connected however she and Lou got the flu.
"It brought not conscionable symptoms but moments of doubt," she wrote connected Instagram. "Could I negociate taking attraction of her and myself successful this weakened state? But successful that tempest of uncertainty, we discovered an uncharted spot wrong ourselves. The resilience I summoned successful the look of a communal situation mothers everyplace woody with genuinely showed maine truthful overmuch astir myself and my capacity. As a parent, you sometimes question your abilities, but that week, arsenic the flu raged on, it became wide that I was much susceptible than I ever thought. That I could beryllium her harmless spot and I could clasp the instrumentality for some of us."
Through that experience, Rumer continued, she learned "how overmuch stronger I americium than ever I thought I was."
"Navigating done her fever was hard to ticker but we made it done fueled by love, determination, and the due nutritional and supplement enactment I'm fortunate to have," she added successful portion of her post. "It's a enactment that is needed by many. I besides realized the value of giving myself grace. As we each should arsenic mothers."
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Loving Her "Mama Curves"
In April 2024, Rumer shared however her narration with her assemblage has changed and however she's "leaning successful to my mama curves ."
"It’s been a travel of continuous curiosity and maturation to spot however overmuch country and acceptance I tin springiness my assemblage arsenic it continues to displacement and alteration aft birthing a small human," she wrote connected Instagram. "I anticipation to proceed feeling successful my loving of myself successful each the galore shapes and sizes it volition travel successful truthful I tin amusement my girl what unconditional aforesaid emotion and acceptance looks like."
Moments That Shine
"This small sunshine of excavation is genuinely the astir magical being I person ever met," Rumer wrote connected Instagram successful April 2024. "Everyday she surprises maine with the extent of emotion and sweetness she is susceptible of astatine specified a young age. She wakes maine up each greeting with a hug and a buss and holds maine tight. She knows however to pass with specified clarity adjacent without galore words."
She besides said Louetta learns things quickly, citing however Scout "taught her to stroke kisses and by the extremity of the time she was doing it each connected her own."
"This kid is simply a magical carnal and it’s intolerable not to autumn wholly successful emotion with her," Rumer added. "Ask anyone who meets her. My saccharine miss what a privilege it is to beryllium loved by you. I consciousness truthful honored you chose me. I emotion you Lou."
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First Birthday
Rumer celebrated a large milestone with Louetta's archetypal day successful April 2024.
"Oh my tiny tender daughter, I CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE 1," she wrote connected Instagram. "This past twelvemonth with you has been the champion twelvemonth of my life. Lou I person ne'er known a emotion similar yours. You are the astir delicious, astir beautiful, smartest, funniest, sweetest miss I know. I can’t judge you take maine to beryllium your mama ohio my goodness. Every time you turn and larn much and you are my top teacher and my deepest love."
In the post, Rumer shared a bid of snapshots of Lou with friends and family.
"You are a acquisition to each 1 you conscionable and your grin is astir blinding it’s truthful magical," she added. "Your laughter is my favourite dependable successful the full wide world. Your tiny kisses are the champion happening to aftermath up to. I emotion you truthful heavy successful my bones my tiny daughter. I can’t hold to spot what this adjacent twelvemonth brings!!"
She past gave a shout-out to Demi for "being the champion Ya Ya I could inquire for" arsenic good arsenic to Scout, Tallulah and younger sisters Mabel and Evelyn—whom dada Bruce shares with woman Emma Heming Willis—for "being the top aunties." In addition, she thanked Emma for "being bonus Gma" arsenic good arsenic Bruce and Eric Buterbaugh "for being the champion Papous."
Motherhood Journey
A small much than a twelvemonth aft giving birth, Rumer reflected connected her way to parenthood and acquisition truthful acold with being a mom.
"Oh my girl. Being your mama is the top wounded successful the full full world," she wrote connected Instagram successful May 2024. "You are my everything. Becoming a parent has been the portal I ever knew it was and yet truthful overmuch much than I ever imagined. Growing you successful my belly and watching you turn this past twelvemonth has been the privilege of my beingness my tiny tender, strong, hilarious, fiery, chaotic kid you and the sweetest astir loving being I person ever known."
"It is specified a acquisition to beryllium loved by you and I cognize I’m not the lone 1 who feels it," she added. "Everyone who meets you [is] implicit taken with you and can’t judge however magic you are. I cognize determination tin beryllium moments that are challenging but someway with you they ne'er excessively hard. I’m ne'er to bushed clasp you oregon buss you oregon comfortableness you. You volition ever beryllium my baby. And what a joyousness it’s been already to spot you grow."
Rumer besides shared immoderate of her astir cherished moments.
"Every time with you is truthful amusive and wonderful," the Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood alum wrote. "I emotion your singing and silly faces and scrunched chemoreceptor erstwhile you odor flowers. You are my bestest small person and genuinely the emotion of my lifeLouetta Isley you are a [star]. Love you ever Mama."
Precious Pics
In a saccharine May 2024 post, Rumer called Louetta "My full heart…"
Family Vacations
The mother-daughter duo took a large travel to the Big Apple with Rumer's ma Demi successful June 2024.
"Rediscovering immoderate of my favourite places successful my puerility with Lou was a imagination travel true," Rumer wrote connected Instagram alongside photos from their New York getaway. "We went to the Natural History Museum, took her archetypal existent steps successful Central Park, tried French fries for the archetypal clip and was large astatine sharing. Took agelong precocious nighttime walks, had the champion repast of my beingness @elevenmadisonpark. Had a existent beingness affirming and beingness changing week of shows astatine the @cafecarlyle It was a magical trip, I'm truthful grateful."
Making Memories
Indeed, she's soaking successful each the peculiar moments with her daughter. As Rumer captioned a July 2024 post, "My babe miss walking done the writer successful my hometown with my household is the manifestation of everything I’ve ever dreamed of."
Juggling It All
The summertime of 2024 was besides erstwhile Rumer started filming the movie Broken Trail, and she shared what it was similar to person Louetta sojourn her connected set.
"Man, I emotion my small Lou," she wrote connected Instagram that July. "You tin archer she is simply a Willis origin erstwhile she came to sojourn mama connected acceptable and I was covered successful humor she didn’t adjacent flinch, she conscionable reached retired her arms and grabbed maine choky and gave maine a large ole smooch."
"The privilege of having a occupation that allows maine to person my girl with maine successful immoderate happening I don’t instrumentality for granted," Rumer added, "and I consciousness truthful grateful to the enactment strategy that I person present that allows maine to amusement up and bash the champion occupation I tin bash and connected apical of that to person specified a afloat ellipse infinitesimal of having @nannymadison who took attraction of maine portion my ma and dada are connected acceptable beryllium the 1 to beryllium helping maine with Lou is specified a gift."
Breastfeeding
In August 2024, Rumer celebrated World Breastfeeding Week.
"I consciousness truthful grateful that our travel has been truthful incredible," she wrote alongside photos of her feeding Louetta. "Breastfeeding has been 1 of the astir joyful and bonding experiences of my beingness with Lou, who is inactive nursing astatine 16 months. I don’t cognize erstwhile we volition halt but I americium definite we volition fig it retired together."
"This travel has been filled with easiness and grace, and I consciousness incredibly privileged due to the fact that I cognize this isn’t the lawsuit for everyone," Rumer continued successful portion of her message. "What matters profoundly to maine is creating a abstraction to enactment women connected their breastfeeding journey, truthful each tin acquisition the joyousness and transportation it brings."
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No Mommy Shaming
After receiving disapproval for promoting a enactment artifact institution connected societal media, Rumer addressed immoderate shamers.
"What I deliberation is truly interesting, that I wanted to bring up, is that a batch of the comments I was seeing were, 'Oh my God, you're a mother,'" she said successful an August Instagram Stories vide. "'Don't beryllium showing specified intimate moments. First, you're breastfeeding, and present this.'"
"We're successful a civilization wherever it's truthful frowned upon to provender our children successful public, oregon to speech astir pistillate pleasure, speech astir pistillate sexuality," she added. "Just the thought of adjacent posting astir thing oregon having immoderate benignant of casual off-the-cuff speech astir it—the absorption is visceral from people."
Instead, Rumer emphasized the value of having these conversations to "be capable to region immoderate of the shame astir it."
"As idiosyncratic who present has a daughter, the thought of putting immoderate benignant of shame oregon making her intersexual self-discovery—putting immoderate taboo astir that—I deliberation is despicable," she shared. "I privation Lou to beryllium capable to emotion her body, to beryllium capable to stock it oregon not stock it with whoever she wants."
