Ashton Kutcher became a stepfather in his mid-twenties when he married his first wife, Demi Moorewho shares three daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis.
“I was 26 and had the responsibility of an 8-year-old, a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old,” says the That 1970s show alum told Esquire in January 2023, recalling his role as a father figure to Moore and Willis’ daughters, Roemer, Explorer And Tallulahwhen he married the Occasionally actress in 2005.
“That’s how some teenage parents must experience their twenties,” he reflected.
Although Kutcher had his own biological children with wife Mila Kunis after he and Moore finalized their divorce in 2013, he’s ‘still making'[s] a very conscious effort to keep in touch with the girls,” the Dude, where’s my car? actor shared on Mark Maron‘s “WTF” podcast in 2020. “I love them, and I will never stop loving them, will I? And respect and honor them and make sure they are successful in whatever they pursue.
For their part, the Willis girls have also discussed what it was like having Kutcher as a stepfather – which admittedly involved some “weird” moments.
Rumer said Howard Stern in 2015 that she was in love with the Two and a half Men alum before her mother started dating him in 2003.
“It was definitely weird for a minute, but I have to praise him. He was a really great stepfather. Perspectives shifted quickly,” said de House rabbit star shared at the time. “Then you open up Teen Beat, you take him down and put someone else down. I feel like at one point I told my sister, ‘I have to cross him off the list.’”
Light-hearted anecdotes aside, both Rumer and Tallulah also expressed some difficulties during their mother’s marriage to Kutcher. (Moore, for her part, revealed on Red Table Talk in 2015 that she was “addicted” to the Valentine’s Day actor during their relationship, which led her to start drinking again after years of sobriety.)
“So much of that time, especially with Ashton, I was so angry because I felt like something that was mine had been taken away,” Rumer told the Red Table Talk delivery with the GI Jane actress, who also suffered a miscarriage during her marriage to Kutcher. “When she wanted to have another baby, and then it didn’t happen, and then there was so much attention to it, it was like, ‘Oh, we’re not enough.'”
Tallulah, for her part, was thinking Stars on Mars in June 2023 that the media focus on her mother and stepfather at the beginning of their relationship sent her into “a total garbage can fire”.
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