Demi Moore: Call Me a "Puma," Not a "Cougar"
Demi Moore has a purrfect solution to the "cougar" label so often affixed to older women partnered with younger men: call her a puma instead!
In the April issue of Harper's Bazaar, the 47-year-old wife to Ashton Kutcher, 32, says that the latter feline term "has a sweeter quality, more elegant." Moore charges that "cougar has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression."
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There's only one hitch to the "puma" term: "Somebody said to me, 'Pumas are only for people in their 30s.'"
The frequently Twittering star got some flack for all the cat-talk by a follower on the microblogging site.
"Somebody really offended me on Twitter by saying, 'How is that better, switching from one predator to another?'" she recounts. "I wrote back, saying it's important to keep your sense of humor."
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Moore also lashed out at a recent W magazine cover photo controversy, which alleged that her hip had been retouched.
"Okay, that is literally my shape," she tells Harper's Bazaar. What bothered her most about the kerfuffle, Moore explains, "wasn't that people were saying it was retouched, it was that they were saying my hip was so badly botched because a hunk of it was taken out. I called the photographers, and they said, 'We did not touch anything on your hip, your thigh, or your waist. It was the position.'"
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In the interview, the star doesn't explicitly address ongoing speculation that she's undergone extensive plastic surgery. "I feel better in my skin, 100 percent," she says simply of growing older. "That's the tradeoff. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age -- why?"
The April issue of Harper's Bazaar hits newsstands March 30.
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10She's had work done. Don't kid yourself.
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Demi is so hot and if i was a man I would have her. She sexy smart
Why lie about your age, just lie about all the surgeries. It;s easy to tell your age when you've been nipped and tucked to the max so people will say, wow, you look so good for your age.
TO NOT I'M A YOUNG GIRL AND I TRY I LOOK LIKE HER! GORGEOUS HAIR, SKIN, THIS WOMANS B.E.A.UTIFUL!
She is ridiculously gorgeous and you haters are SOOOO jealous, go get a life. She's rich, famous, successful, gotta hot man, sick body after all those kids.... She's what you call good genetic material so go cry to your mothers and leave her alone if you can't be happy for others who have it good.
She's so gorgeous. She's in a class by herself. She's the only starlet to have made the cougar thing actually work out into a real relationship. She was the first naked preggo on a cover (now it's overdone). She's pretty trailblazing.
She's not a cougar nor is she a puma, she is an old bi*ch. Trying to look young like her girls, you r old demi, and if it wasn't for all the work done to your face we would see all kinds of wrinkles, you stole ashton youth, he is starting to look old.
Got it, Demi!
Why do some lie about their age? I look younger than my age but have had nothing done. I don't LIE about it but don't offer it either. I have been tempted because then people start examining you to see if you have indeed had something done and it's creepy!