Queen of nude scenes Demi Moore, 60, admits she feels ‘insecure’ about her body and only strips off to ‘be free from her self-imposed enslavement’

She’s done multiple nude scenes throughout her career, even posing on the front of Vanity Fair completely naked.

But Demi Moore has revealed the ‘biggest misconception’ of her is that she ‘loves her body’ and says that she took certain roles to help her overcome insecurities.

Since launching into the limelight in the Eighties, Moore, 61, hasn’t shied away from a full frontal nude scene – from playing a dancer in Striptease in 1996 to a 17th century Puritan in The Scarlet Letter in 1995.

She’s posed for her fair share of nude magazine covers too.

Moore appeared on the cover of the January 1981 issue of the adult magazine Oui, taken from a photo session in which she had posed completely naked.

Since launching into the limelight in the Eighties, Moore, 61, hasn’t shied away from a full frontal nude scene (pictured in Striptease in 1996) 

In August 1991, Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair seven months pregnant with the second of her three daughters.

The following year, Moore again appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair, this time modeling under the title Demi’s Birthday Suit.

Most recently, she posed nude on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in October 2019. 

Speaking on her nude scenes in an interview with Variety on Tuesday she said: ‘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.’

Moore, whose new film The Substance, has been met by rave reviews, received a 13-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival.

In The Substance, Moore stars as Elisabeth, an ageing TV fitness instructor who signs up for a mysterious medical regime called The Substance that promises to create the perfect, younger and better version of herself – played by Margaret Qualley, 29.

Demi revealed: ‘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’ (pictured in No Small Affair in 1984) 

The role required Moore to be completely naked in a scene where Qualley’s character is ‘birthed’ – which shows Moore examining her own nude body before Qualley emerges and looks at her own skin in a full-frontal scene.

Speaking at Cannes Film Festival in May Ms Moore said the full-frontal nudity scenes in The Substance were easier to perform with Ms Qualley because she made her feel ‘very safe’.

‘I had someone who was a great partner who I felt very safe with,’ she said.

‘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.’

Moore’s new film The Substance required her to be completely naked in a scene where Margaret Qualley’s character is ‘birthed’