Tallulah Willis ‘punished’ herself for not looking more like mom Demi Moore

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Tallulah Willis took to Instagram to share that she used to “resent” her resemblance to her father Bruce Willis

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[suggestivepeach]

Oof. As a person who inherited the worst genes from both parents, I can relate?
To this day, I still have a fear of not looking feminine enough, which I’m aware is ridiculous but I can’t help it.

[goldenhera]

Is your icon of Demi or Jennifer Connelly?

[alienjive]

That’s Jennifer

[anna_drenxavier]

Yah, my mom was very pretty, but the only thing I inherited from her looks-wise was alopecia. Rude.

[shatteredglass]

i feel this so much

[readmymiind]

Same

[mzgrottesca]

Yeah people have always said I look just like my dad since I was little and I have a huge complex about not being feminine enough lol made worse by the fact that people made fun of me for having a low speaking voice for years too. I seriously didn't take almost any genes from my mom, it's crazy because both of my sisters resemble her a lot and took nothing from their dad lol.

[rubie_dubidoux]

I feel that. I am a *dead ringer* for my brother. I think our features do work a little better on me/I'm more attractive than he is, but my face still reads as very masculine if I don't do enough to femme myself up with clothes/hair/makeup. I have my dad's heavy brow/strong nose and my mom's super square jaw (and it's only expanded and become even more square and big as I've gotten older) plus I have no chest or waist and kind of an oddly proportioned lower body. I can't tell you how many times people have assumed or suspected I'm trans, which I have... complicated feelings about, to put it simply. I've also been assaulted by strangers in public a few times and I'm pretty sure they were motivated by transphobia/transmisogyny, just based on how they went down. And I get called homophobic slurs by randos on the street not infrequently - I'm a cis straight woman, to be clear - and it actually happens even more when I AM wearing really feminine clothes/makeup. For the most part I'm still way more confident in my appearance than I was in

[suggestivepeach]

I’m so sorry you have to go through that

[rubie_dubidoux]

honestly upon reflection I'm making it sound worse than it is - I'm confident enough now in my looks that this isn't something I really dwell on when feeling down about my appearance. trans women are hot, you know? also I reassure myself that women with angular faces like mine often age pretty well because we already have all the features that read as old and therefore we don't end up with that stark contrast a lot of women with round faces and really delicate, childlike feminine features have when they start really aging. Look at Keira Knightley and her jaw - she's looked 25 for like 20 years!

[suggestivepeach]

This is all true! But being assaulted by strangers is obviously no joke. That shit is awful, no matter what the reason behind it was.
And whenever I truly think of my situation, I feel silly too, but then I remind myself that having days where you really feel hideous because of comments from when you were a kid is still valid lol. I think I’m allowed to have moments where I feel shit, as long as I don’t wallow in it for a long time or have it consume me.

[kittenishgirl]

I feel you! It's not ridiculous at all.
I stupidly did those "rate me" livejournals back in the day and they all said I looked masculine and it really warped my perception of myself... add on when my hairdresser accidentally gave me a pixie cut and I freaked out lol.

[loveology101]

How do you "accidentally" give someone a pixie cut??

[kittenishgirl]

I guess I used accidentally because it wasn't discussed as the haircut to happen lol. I had short hair to begin with but she was distracted by people in the salon and just cut and cut until it was like 1 inch in the back. I just hate getting my haircut so stared at a magazine the whole time.

[curdlesnoots]

I’ve found my people! My folks cut my hair short as a kid and I had quite a low-pitched voice so people used to tease me for looking like a boy.

As I aged my features got more and more asymmetrical and masculine and, in a twist of irony, I now look terrible with long hair.

I try and ignore it and lean into the androgynous look but there’s often an awkward pause when people start talking about dating, beauty or “feminine” things around me. Like yeah I know, I have a mirror.

Plus I’m straight and nnnn...men...

[rubie_dubidoux]

lol I have really asymmetrical features and now that I've started to visibly age it's tripping me out how that's happening asymmetrically as well! turns out when I smile I do so much more on one side of my face, which is also the side where my brow is more hooded, so there I've got the beginning of crows feet and fairly deep frown lines but the other side... nothing. and I know it's not sun exposure because the side that faces the sun when I'm the car is the young side!