Demi Moore is celebrating her 60th birthday today - but she's still a child at heart as she owns a massive collection of dolls.
The Hollywood actress, who looks sensational as she enters her seventh decade, reportedly has 2,000 dolls that at one stage were kept in their own separate home.
Demi is "the world's most high-profile doll collector", according to The New York Times, and got her extensive collection insured for a staggering $2 million.
The Indecent Proposal and Striptease star got her first taste for the freaky figurines when she was married to ex-husband Bruce Willias, as the Die Hard actor gifted her with her first doll.
Demi and Bruce were married from 1987 until their divorce in 2000 and are parents to daughters Rumer, 33, Scout, 31, and Tallulah, 28.
"Bruce gifted Demi with her first doll — a vintage porcelain-faced figure with human hair and lifelike features," a source told Radar in 2019.
Amongst her favorites is the Gene Marshall fashion doll, one of the first large fashion dolls primarily intended for adult collectors.
Inspired by Hollywood's golden age, each 15.5 inch doll features intricate movie-styled theme based upon fashions from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
The collection supposedly became an obsession in the wake of her divorce from Bruce - and some of them come along with Demi wherever she goes.
In an interview with Harpers Bazaar in 2019, Demi explained: "I love figurative art. And when I look at the little faces of things that I have, whether they're like little animals or little something or others. I've always got little faces looking at me.
"If you go up and look at my carry-on bag, I have a little bear, and I have a little Dil Pickles, you know, from Rugrats? I usually have a monkey in my purse too. It started with one I call purse monkey.
She added that the dolls are funny faces "reminding you not to take your life too seriously and to remember the importance of play".
One person who was not a fan of her doll collection was third husband Ashton Kutcher, who was married to the actress between 2005 and 2013.
The Two and a Half Men actor once confessed that the dolls 'freaked him out' and revealed that Demi kept some in their shared bedroom.
Having watched horror film Chucky as a child, he could not bear to be in the same room as his then wife's lifelike toys.
The Punk'd star told talkshow host Conan O' Brien: "They upset me - I saw Chucky! These things freak me out, man, and she's got like thousands of them. They're everywhere - and they're freaky."
He added: "I think the dolls have souls. And they're always looking at you - we have some in the bedroom and that makes things just weird. Some of these things are worth a lot of money apparently but they frighten me a little bit."
It's hard to believe that Demi is celebrating her 60th birthday today - and the actress had admitted she is determined to remain 'desirable' and 'sexy' as she grows older.
Demi is happier than ever and wants her seventh decade "to be defined by experience" rather than a number.
"It's changing this idea that women become less desirable as we get older. We don’t want to look matronly or not feel sexy," she told People magazine recently.
"You hit 59 and you’re already thinking: 'Well, I'm going to be 60'. It feels very liberating.
"When I think of my grandmother at 60, she in a way seemed to be already resigned to being old. But I feel, in so many ways, more alive and present than ever."
The G.I. Jane star lives in Idaho with her blended family, which includes her three dauhgters, ex-husband Bruce and his wife Emma Heming Willis, 46, and their children Mabel, 10, and Evelyn, 8.
One thing that is especially important to Demi is her girl friends, who she believes are just as important as having a partner.
Speaking on fellow actress Jamie Lee Curtis’ Good Friend podcast, Demi explained: "As I've got older I cherish my female friendships. They are essential for my wellbeing.
"Some study showed women couldn't do without these friendships and I can speak to that."
Demi has been married and divorced three times, first to singer Freddy Moore, then Bruce Willis and finally Ashton Kutcher.
Having survived three failed marriages, she has admitted she is now relying more on her female friends.
She added: "Occasionally you walk away with one friend – or maybe two – that you're really close to and they’re like mini-marriages. If I don't see someone for 20 years and I see them it's as if no time has gone by.
"You wonder, 'Why did I let so much time go by when we have such a lovely connection?'"
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