Because of the holiday, the tabloids are probably releasing their covers and covers stories early this week, thus we already know that Demi Moore has taken this week’s cover of People Magazine. First, look at the cover:
It’s awkward, right? It looks like an old photo, but it also seems like her face doesn’t match her arms. It reminds me of this:
Right?
Anyway, nothing in the People story is really that groundbreaking. Of course, the bible of celebrity gossip isn’t going to run a story about Demi being on the down low with ladies, or even Demi and Ashton asking other people to come into their marital bed. No, People’s story is all about how Demi was a hot mess of insecurity and how Ashton has wanted out for a while, but how he was too big of puss to pull the plug himself:
It was an unlikely romance from the start – and in the end, the six-year marriage of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore fell apart because of issues that had long fueled skepticism about their relationship: their famous 15-year age difference, his wandering eye, her insecurities.
As a result, the marriage “[had] been deteriorating for a long time,” a friend of Kutcher, 33, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “Ashton was ready to end it, [but] he wanted to wait for Demi to actually do it. He loved her but couldn’t live with her. ”
Moore, 49, “really wanted to save the marriage but couldn’t deal with the pain of his cheating,” adds the friend.
“They were fed up with each other,” a second source tells PEOPLE.
Several friends note that the age gap between the former power couple – who are worth an estimated $290 million – caused Moore to doubt herself.
“If anyone was uncomfortable with the age difference, it was Demi, not Ashton,” says a Kutcher pal. “She drove him crazy after a while with questions and doubts.”
[From People]
“If anyone was uncomfortable with the age difference, it was Demi, not Ashton”… yes, I’m sure that’s why Ashton was boning 20-something club girls. Because he had no problem with his wife’s age. And I’m sure said boning had nothing to do with Demi’s raging insecurity, right? As for the other stuff – yeah, I’ll believe that Ashton has wanted out for a while and he was just wanting Demi to pull the plug. And with the chicken-egg debate of Ashton’s infidelities and Demi’s insecurities and which came first, I’d say that they were both at fault to varying degrees. In my opinion, they’re both severely flawed people, I just happen to have some sympathy for Demi because… well, I think she was LESS in the wrong.
Oh, and TMZ reports that Ashton bought Demi a $100K Lexus for her birthday, just a few weeks ago:
Less than two weeks before Demi Moore announced she would divorce Ashton Kutcher, he threw a Hail Mary to save the marriage … in the form of a lavish, eco-friendly gift.
According to our sources, Ashton contacted a high-end car company, to buy a new set of wheels for Demi’s birthday. We’re told Ashton picked out a 2012 Lexus LS 600h L — and paid North of $100,000.
Our sources say Ashton wanted a quick deal — bagging the luxury hybrid on November 9, just two days before Demi’s birthday.
If it was meant to win back Demi … clearly it didn’t work. We don’t know if Demi accepted the vehicle or if Ashton was able to give it back to the car company.
On the upside — 22 mpg!
[From TMZ]
When you break up, you might give back the jewelry (only if they’re antique pieces from his family, I say), but do you give back a car? I say no. I say you keep the car.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
OMG Kaiser! I love the Tina Fey Bossy Pants photo. Hysterical. He still is a major douche.
Ya think?! That’s all I got for this enlightening People article.
The Tina Fey pic was the best part of this.
Pfffff… Keep the jewellery and cars, i say! not that anyone’s ever actually bought me a car)
So over this story already. Next!
The only thing this article proves is that People Magazine is just as big a tabloid as intouch and the others. Some folks publicists still have them on speed dial to talk about their clients wonderful romances, but for the most part, their stuff is just as crappy as the others.
is she dyslexic? did she think he was 32, not 23, going in?
Kaiser, you are spot on about this one.
And didn’t everyone see this coming from the beginning of their hook-up? The sad part to me is how if the roles were reversed with the man be older, it would be a non-issue. Sexism is alive and well.
Always so much emphasis placed on a woman’s age. For example, yesterday I was reading a blog about the break-up of bachelorette Allie and Roberto breaking up and of course they mention her age but no mention of his. Point being they are both young but still the woman gets her age mentioned.
And yet everyone talked about the age difference (also 16 years!) between Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise when they married. The difference is that Demi married a guy who was at the peak of his wild oats-sowing phase, and who would probably one day like biological children, after the age at which it was realistically possible for her to have them naturally.
= Doomed!
I agree, our culture worships the young! I can’t imagine a Hollywood actress who would NOT be hyper-sensitive about aging.
But marriages with a big age difference can work, especially when the younger person is mature for their age and the older person acts younger — they meet in between!
I don’t follow them on Twitter and I’m not really interested in them, but I just have to ask: if she weren’t uncomfortable with the age difference then why marry him in the first place? I thought issues like that should be addressed before one walks down the aisle.
I’m surprised Demi let them go with that picture- it isn’t very flattering, and am I the only one who finds post-break up cover stories cheap and embarrassing for the “wounded” one?
Don’t care for a car. Give me expensive jewelry instead. If we end up breaking up and I hate your face, I can sell the jewelry and get much more money off of it than a car (the value depreciates too fast).
yes! just Ask Ellen Barkin.
Keep everything! He’s making big boy money!
Will people stop harping on about the “age difference”? She is only 16 years older than him. If the genders were reversed, no one would even bring it up.
Pfft, she isn’t just uncomfortable with the age difference, she is uncomfortable with her age!! Her insecurities are so obvious no matter how ballsy and confident she tries to portray herself. I have no doubt she would seek constant (and annoying) reassurance from any man, no matter what his age…well, unless he was some wealthy octogenarian hooked up to an oxygen tank and in a wheelchair.
So true! She is uncomfortable with her age.
That’s it…
I agree. A grown woman who tweets semi-nude and bikini self portraits is incredibly immature, insecure and constantly seeking reassurance. While Ashton is no prize, the weight of her insecurities must have been hard to bear. When you’ve placed all your value in your looks, once those start going (as they inevitably do) you don’t have much left to bring to the table.
You’re so right. I love it when women who’ve spent a lifetime trading on their looks start to lose them. They’re so hilarious. Christie Brinkley is another former beauty who shares Demi’s particular lunacy.
Bingo
Getting cheated on with a younger woman makes one insecure?! Who would have thought!
This is b.s. Demi wore the age difference like badge of honor. I am not buying this at all.
NOt buying the age difference excuse either. Sounds like she is trying to seek sympathy from the minivan majority.
It has nothing to do with age-Ashton isn’t going to get any more mature in the future. And Demi’s value system hasn’t progressed beyond a 23 yr old.
dead on!!
Demi, go find a real man your own age and forget about this little boy
she never looked uncomfortable until he cheated.
since I knew this was coming, I guess, I’m bored with it now.
The age difference only matters in this case because Ashton Kutcher has always acted like a junior high schooler. If he was a grown-up, there wouldn’t be a problem.
Of course she’s quite immature and shallow herself.
In the pic w/the clown red pants, she looks just like Jennifer Connolly. I realize if you put them both in a movie, there would be no need for Lunesta, but it’s a fascinating thought.
Every picture Demi looks better than HIM. You think he tries to look like sh*t on purpose to not outshine DEMI? She has had alot of work done but she does look GREAT. But cosmetic surgery can not fix self-esteem or others.
It would be cool if you could implant a conscious, or love.
He is actually beautiful. And getting better looking as he ages. With a gorgeous body. But his hair. Oh, what is with the bangs in his face? And his immaturity. She should have kept him as around as a piece and not married him. I saw this coming, and can’t believe it took this long. He didn’t come across as marriage material then or now. 6 years out of a young stallions life is commendable, and he’s right, they should value that time they spent together, but I feel bad for her. He will be getting alot of coverage for any hookups he has in the next while – and there will be quite a few.
WHY must we be dragged over every bit of stupid minutae and nonissue this unimportant and irrelevant pair go through??? They are simply two boring insecure people who stupidly get married and predictably, their marriage ended just like we all thought. Enough already, go away.
I don’t know. Guys I know say they don’t mind the age that much. If they like it, they hit it. It was probably her insecurity what turned him off, which is in no way excuse for cheating anyway.
wow. Judging by the comments, i say Ashton’s Pr team wins, again.
Day one – put out a message that insinuates that Demi loves the ladies, that way any stories of threesomes with our client can be blamed on her, plus it makes her look desperate
Day two – Put out a message that talks about HER age and the age difference that way we can blame our client’s immaturity on HER.
Day two part II – put out a message that talks about HER supposed insecurities that way we can blame HER for our Client’s cheating ways.
Ashton Win! Win! Win!
Demi Lose! Lose! Lose!
As i work in Crisis PR, i am definitely going to file this away for future use.
Everybody made a big deal of this relationship because they just don’t go together. They’re an odd couple because I can’t even imagine them together. I think she just liked his sex, and he just like her maternal guidance and fame.
She had a problem with him being younger than her. So she kept shagging him for 6 years just to make sure?
Also:
“They were fed up with each other,” a second source tells PEOPLE.
I bloody know how they feel
What I don’t understand, is when someone marries a person significantly older than them…..why don’t they accept the changes. He would be an idiot to think that she would have the same looks as she did when they were married. She was an idiot to try and be younger for the man-child that she married. As for me, I do like older guys, even though I’m turning 17 in a month. But even I know that if I get with some dude who’s 10 to 15 years older than me, that he’s not going to be in the best shape, be the best looking guy that I got with. It’s called aging. Everybody does it. I’d rather look like I’m 50, than look like I had a ton of plastic surgery and am trying to hide it.
OT: I really like the new comments where people can sort of have a conversation with one another. 🙂
So done with this story already. Must be a slow news day/week.
He is a self absorbed narcissist. Demi insecure and equally self absorbed. It’s Hollywood, Lotusland, the world of illusion and rampant manic depressives who feel money and exposure is the answer to their shrinking self worth.
This is all meaningless pap.
Demi looks like she’s holding her son’s hand in the top photos. Sort of icky.
As a male in a relationship with a woman who is ten years older than me I feel qualified to comment on this scenario. Firstly it is perplexing when I see guys my age who are with women that are 15-20 years younger than my wife and it’s awkward being in the company of other people at BBQs and such when the husbands are my age and again the wives are 15-20 years younger than my wife. I feel self conscious and I feel like people are thinking what’s wrong with this guy? Couldn’t he get a woman his own age? This in turn causes us to isolate as a couple because I’m sick of feeling uncomfortable in the presence of other couples. To make matters worse we have two kids, so walking away isn’t that easy. As I’ve said before, a few months back my wife wanted to catch up with some old high school friends she had reconnected with through Facebook, so we went and met up with them. It was the pits because her friend’s husbands looked older than my step father, granted my step father is four years younger than my mother but still, it got me thinking what the hell am I doing here? So as for Ashton and Demi, I have no sympathy for them because they have no kids together, they’re both filthy rich, so splitting up won’t be as financially devastating to them as it would be to my wife and I, as I would be coughing up 24 cents in the dollar in maintenance for my kids and living in some over priced rental dive if we split. And as for loneliness I doubt Demi or Ashton will have to suffer being alone for very long. So you’ll forgive me if I don’t cry a river for two multimillionaires who still have the world at their feet.
If you really feel this way you need to talk to your wife. I’ve been through a divorce (am remarried) and while it cost me everything, house, personal belongings etc…long story but I ended up with two suitcases and a PhD :)it is better than being in a relationship with someone who doesn’t want to be there. My ex husband didn’t want to be there and I didn’t realise that and it cost me dearly. Money and possessions aren’t everything. It made my life very very difficult and sad for a very long time.
Something to think about…does your wife love you? Can you talk to her? Does she look out for you? Try to look after you? Being single is not easy. I spent five long, sometimes very lonely years trying to work out myself and my life after my marriage imploded. It truly is what is inside a person that counts…not how old they are, or how old their friends are. That you feel uncomfortable with your wife and her friends is not her fault nor is it her problem. Its yours mate and though I don’t mean this in an unkind way you HAVE to look at yourself and try to figure out WHY this is. Because no matter who you are with there will always be something about them that you find hard. Look my new husband who I’ve been with for 5.5 years and married to for almost 4 is 5 years older than me and much more conservative politically. You know what? I don’t even see those things…if you were to ask me what his faults are I’d have to think really hard. He dawdles…which makes me mental but that is really it. If I set about to find more I’m sure I could…if I dug and dug and picked and picked. But I love him with all my heart, he is so good to me and my boys, works hard, is funny and kind and affectionate that I CHOOSE to see the good. Which is what I think all of us have to do for each other…choose to look for the good in our partners, family and friends. It doesn’t mean you put up with complete rubbish either, but no relationship in the world would last if we didn’t use the rose coloured glasses once in a while 🙂
Think hard on this mate. There were many many times after my marrige broke up that I wondered “how did I get here?” Once your family unit is blown to the four winds by divorce you can never get it back. Even now I think about my first marriage, the times when my children were young and it was my then husband and myself in our cosy house with our children. The world was a much simpler place. Do you really want to put everything that you know and love behind you over your discomfort with a ten year age gap? Or is it the perception that needs changing?
Best of luck…
@ Mainstream
People are jackwipes. I mean that seriously. People are asses and half of what you’re thinking is in your own head anyway. It’s all in your own head at this point, please wake up and realize that. Look at that actor that plays Wolverine and his wife. Happy.
Get some new BBQ buddies, random people at a BBQ are beyond nothing. You’ve got a wife and kids and a life to think of now.
Relax, grow up and quit thinking about BBQ couples for God’s sake, and enjoy your beautiful family.
There was a story told by Ashton during the time that him and Demi were dating. There were at his place and some young ladies came to his place to party. Demi got quite upset and sent them on their way. Ashton for some reason thought this was hot. Well I for one am shocked they did not make it….to the 10 year mark.
I also think I am qualified to chime in on the subject as i was with a man almost 13 years older than me. We lasted 14 years. Our split had nothing to do with the age difference we just grew apart. It truly bothers me that people are constantly commenting on Demi’s age. Men have been doing this for years and no one cares. Total sexism. Marriage is not easy. From the looks of it he is quite immature. Also I think I read several years ago he is around 4 years older than his stated age according to his voter’s registration card I will try to find a link. In any event time to lay off about her age already. Love truly is timeless, I am happy for the beautiful years I had and my ex is still my friend. Yes I know I am fortunate:)
Being the younger woman with the older man is more socially acceptable than being the younger man with the older woman. When you’re an older man with a younger woman you’re seen as a success. When a younger man with an older woman you’re seen as a failure. I know that’s not right or PC and hopefully that’ll change in time but for now that’s generally the way it is. You only have to look at this site for an example. A lot more is made of the age difference between Demi and Ashton than is ever made of the age difference between Clooney and his much younger women. Again I’m not saying it’s right but that’s the way it is.
@ Mainstream
You’ve got the whole thing backwards, that’s not how it works.
You’re the husband and father here. You don’t skulk into a room like that. You’re supposed to walk into a room with your head held high, looking proud of your family and if somebody dares give YOUR family a side eye you need to be the first one to protect them from that. Your role is never to take the side of someone that you suspect thinks ill of your family. People will come correct to your family and you when you get it together and project self respect and pride in them. People take their cues from how you act and your family does too so you have a responsibility to the kids here as well.
And never, ever take relationship advice from someone describing a failed relationship as the example.
Best of luck. Start respecting yourself and your family right away.
http://www.nndb.com/people/768/000022702/
the [1] notation at the bottom of the page mentions that he may be 4 years older.
Well I saw something that showed Demi was lying about her age by a few years so, it all adds up to about the same.
What the bloody hell are you always bringing up her age for? Never with the ugly old codgers, but somehow you’re sure that’s the prob here even though they were together a decade.
They look hot together. It IS what all the fuss was about. It was pretty clear they were having magic sex.
Anyway, they loved the attention and made their respective booty calls into an industry and shockingly 2 shallow Hollywood narcissists who married in a trendy kabbalah ceremony for In Touch couldn’t make things everlasting.
They’re both still beautiful and rich, famous and successful. For selfish people to last this long was a miracle. The story ran its course.
@Callumna : That’s sound advice. Getting on the front foot and taking the initiative seems like the way to go.
Thanks.