Tallulah Willis was feeling nostalgic on Tuesday when she posted a throwback photo with her parents, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, alongside her stepmother, Emma Heming.
The 31-year-old took to Instagram to share her appreciation for her family, with the sweet snap taken in 2008 at the premiere of Demi’s film Flawless.
“It’s so silly that the internet is akin to a family photo album for me,” Tallulah wrote in the caption. “Random gems can just pop up — but I love my parents, all three of them! @emmahemingwillis @demimoore.”
The photo saw Tallulah sandwiched between her parents, as Demi and Emma giggled with each other.
Emma responded to the heartfelt message by reposting it to her Instagram stories and adding a simple white heart emoji to show her love.
The post comes amid Bruce’s health battle with frontotemporal dementia, which his daughter opened up about in September.
“He’s stable which, in this situation, is good,” she said in an interview with Today.
“It’s hard,” she added. “There’s painful days, but there’s so much love. And it’s really shown me to not take any moment for granted, and I really do think that we’d be best friends. I think he’s very proud of me.”
The family grew even closer after the Die Hard actor’s diagnosis, with Demi making weekly trips to support him and his wife.
© Stefanie KeenanThe Substance star was married to Bruce from 1987 until 2000, and welcomed daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 31, together.
The 69-year-old then married Emma Heming in 2009 after meeting at their mutual trainer’s gym. The couple went on to have two daughters: Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10.
“We will always be a family, just in a different form,” Demi told Variety. “For me, there was never a question. I show up because that’s what you do for the people you love.”
© Getty Images For Comedy Central“I hope it’s encouraging for others to see that there’s a different way to do things,” she added. “There is life after divorce. There is a way to co-parent with love.”
For the 46-year-old Emma, Demi and the girls’ support is invaluable as the blended family navigates their new normal.
“The family respects the way I’m looking after him; they really support me. If I need to vent, if I need to cry, if I need to rage — because all of that can happen and it’s okay to have those feelings — they are always there to listen,” she told Town & Country.
© Instagram“I‘m so thankful that we are this blended family. They’re very supportive, very loving, and very helpful, and a lot of people don’t have that.“ Mabel and Evelyn are close with their older sisters and have leaned on the family throughout their father’s illness.
“I‘ve never tried to sugarcoat anything for them,” Emma told the publication. “They’ve grown up with Bruce declining over the years. I’m not trying to shield them from it.”
She continued: “Obviously, I don’t like to speak about the terminal side of this with them, nor have they asked. They know that Daddy’s not going to get better.”
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