The most beautiful grandmother in the world: “I appreciate most everything that my body has gone through and that has brought me here”

With a career spanning over four decades, it might come as a surprise to some that Demi Moore only gained her first Oscar nomination at this year’s Academy Awards. Despite being among the favorites to come away with a gong, she ended up empty-handed - as Mikey Madison (Anora) took home the Best Actress award.

Lazy day with the family after the Academy Awards

Not winning wasn’t such a disappointment though - at least it meant she could laze about and not have to deal with the media in the post-Oscars aftermath. “I was just so happy to kind of sleep in, knowing I had nowhere to be. It was just a beautiful, easy day,” Demi admitted to PEOPLE, adding how comforting it was to just spend the day in her pajamas just relaxing with her family.

At 62, Moore is the cover star of PEOPLE’s World’s Most Beautiful 2025 issue. She gained acclaim for her performance as Elizabeth Sparkle in The Substance - an actress in the twilight of her career whose looks are fading. Moore says that while she identifies with the character in some ways, she accepts where she is at in her life and is incredibly grateful for what she has.

“I’m certainly more comfortable in my own skin than I have ever been - but that’s not to say that I’m always comfortable,” she told PEOPLE. “I have a greater appreciation for all that my body has been through that brought me to now. All of the... how incredible that my body grew three human beings [daughters: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah] and those things that it’s walked through - that I had really incredible health. It doesn’t mean that sometimes I look in the mirror and don’t go, ‘Oh God, I look old,’ or ‘Oh, my face is falling’ — I do. But I can accept that that’s where I’m at today, and I know the difference today is that it doesn’t define my value or who I am“.

Demi Moore admits she was hard on herself when she was younger

It hasn’t always been that way though. Demi confesses that she gave herself a hard time when she was younger, before motherhood. “I did torture myself - crazy things like biking from Malibu all the way to Paramount, which is about 26 miles. All because I placed so much value on what my outsides looked like,” she says. “I think the biggest difference today is it’s so much more about my overall health and longevity and quality of life. I think I’ve evolved into greater gentility toward myself. I was so harsh and had a much more antagonistic relationship with my body. And straight up I was really just punishing myself.

“Now I have a much more kind of intuitive, relaxed relationship with my body. I trust when it tells me it needs something to eat, that it’s thirsty. I listen to my body today, and I have a lot less fear. When I was younger, I felt like my body was betraying me. And so I just tried to control it. And now I don’t operate from that place. It’s a much more aligned relationship“.

As we get older we naturally come to terms with many aspects of our lives - just as Demi has. “In a way, beauty just is,” she concludes. ”You can look at a flower and see its beauty. On a human level, I find it’s authenticity and positivity. Beauty comes out of comfort with being exactly who you are“.

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