Bruce Willis’ daughter Tallulah has shared an update on her health condition, sharing before and after photos as she celebrated a ‘small win’ with her skin.
The 30-year-old took to Instagram in a partnership with Picking Me Foundation NFP as she showed her experience with compulsive skin picking, which is also known as dermatillomania or excoriation disorder.
Tallulah shared pictures of her face, including one where she was noticeably sore and red around her mouth and orbital area, and then others where her skin appeared clear.
‘PICKING HAPPENS!! And then healing **can ** happen,’ she reassured her followers in the caption next to her side-by-side comparison.
‘Healing doesn’t have to mean clear skin, and it doesn’t mean intrusive thoughts stop intruding, and it doesn’t mean you’re not gonna do it again. It’s small wins,’ she explained.
The former child star, who is now forging a career in fashion, didn’t expand on her own experiences with the condition but was keen to help show her support.
‘There’s such a community in this struggle and I want so badly to share how I achieved my wins and help rescue all the sweet picked faces of the world!’ she wrote.
Tallulah was flooded with grateful comments from fans, with @maxncheeez saying they ‘felt so seen’, while @indigowanderess added: ‘Thank you so much for sharing! I struggle with picking and hair pulling and I feel like it’s such a misunderstood symptom of trauma that it’s so validating to see someone sharing it publicly.’
‘I so appreciate how openly you discuss this,’ shared @jemesii, while actress and comedian Chelsea Handler posted: ‘Beautiful inside and out YOU ARE. Picking or no picking.’
Skin picking is often linked to OCD, ADHD, body dysmorphic disorder, repetitive hair pulling disorder (trichotillomania) and other mental health conditions – as well as skin conditions like acne and eczema.
It can also be linked to those on the autism spectrum, as it can be a form of sensory self-regulation.
Tallulah announced her autism diagnosis publicly in March on Instagram.
She shared it alongside video footage of her as a child being held in the arms of her Hollywood star father Bruce on the red carpet, where she could be seen repeatedly rubbing his head and playing with his ear.
As sister Scout, 32, pointed out in the comments, ‘She’s stimming’, which refers to self-stimulatory behaviour, which is seen most prominently in people with autism and ADHD.
‘Tell me your [sic] autistic without telling me your [sic] autistic,’ Tallulah quipped in the captioned of her post.
In the comments section, she the revealed: ‘Actually this is the first time I’ve ever publicly shared my diagnosis.
‘Found out this summer and it’s changed my life.’
Tallulah and sisters Scout and Rumer, 35, have also been coping, alongside actress mum Demi, 61, with Bruce’s frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis from 2023, after he initially retired from acting the previous year, due to aphasia.
The family, and Bruce’s wife Emma Heming Willis, have been very open about his diagnosis as they surround the 69-year-old Die Hard star with support.
He and Emma also share daughters Mabel, 12, and 10-year-old Evelyn.
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