Demi Moore posed nude for magazine covers to try and "free herself" from a place of "enslavement".
Demi Moore stripped for magazine shoots to battle 'insecurities'
The 61-year-old star - who has bared it all on screen in movies like 'Striptease' and 'The Scarlet Letter' - has admitted she has plenty of "insecurities about her body", and she had that in mind when taking on certain film roles and her 1991 nude shoot for Vanity Fair.
She told Variety: "One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I loved my body.
"The reality is, so much of it was me calling in certain projects that would give me an opportunity to help me overcome insecurities about my body.
"It was the same with the Vanity Fair covers; it was not that I loved it — it was about trying to free myself from the space of enslavement that I had put myself in."
She appears completely naked in new movie 'The Substance', in which she plays ageing TV fitness instructor Elisabeth who joins an enigmatic medical regime which offers the chance to become a perfect and younger version of herself.
In one scene, Demi appears completely nude before Margaret Qualley, 29, is "birthed" as her younger self.
Speaking earlier this year at Cannes Film Festival, the big screen veteran recalled: "I had someone who was a great partner who I felt very safe with.
"We obviously were quite close — naked — and we also got a lot of levity in those moments at how absurd those certain situations were.
"But ultimately. it's just about really directing your communication and mutual trust."
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