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, 62, took the stage at the Golden Globes ceremony to accept her first major acting award in her 40-year career for the movie “The Substance,”
“Well, with ‘Striptease,’ it was as if I had betrayed women, and with ‘G.I. Jane,’ it was as if I had betrayed men,” Moore said in the interview. “I think anyone who had been in the position that was the first to get that kind of equality of pay would probably have taken a hit. But because I did a film that was dealing with the world of stripping and the body, I was extremely shamed.”Demi Moore is stared down in a scene from the film"G.I. Jane," 1997.
“For so long, my perception was that if someone else said I wasn’t skinny enough, smart enough or successful enough, it was true and that was it.”In my first office job, I worked in business development for a screen printing company. A few weeks in, my boss called me into his office to talk about my performance. I could feel the sweat pooling under my button-down shirt. I worried it would soak through and become visible.
It wasn’t until my mid-30s, when I began seeing a psychologist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy , that my perspective about myself finally changed for the better. During that time, I learned more about myself: to let go of others’ opinions of me and to accept my body and myself as I was. CBT taught me to change my response to triggering situations that caused me to be critical of my body, my worth and my achievements.
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