Demi Moore Has a Revealing Memoir on the Way, But More Importantly, Wild Taxidermy
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Disordered eating, drug abuse, celebrity, cheating, and being cheated on are some of the topics explored in actor Demi Moore’s upcoming memoir Inside Out. I’m sure all of that is equally harrowing and juicy, depressing and powerful, and all of the things a revealing celebrity memoir should make one feel. But I’m stuck on her taxidermy.
As discussed in Dave Itzkoff’s New York Times profile of Moore pegged to her book (in stores September 24), Moore has stuffed her “home high above Beverly Hills” with stuffed animals, and—twist—they are extremely specific types of dead animals. Writes Itzkoff:
She has surrounded herself in her home with small, affectionate dogs with names like Merple, Diego and Sousci Tunia, and she also collects taxidermy — like the baby zebra near her fireplace — of animals that she said “have had unfortunate early passings.” (She said she also had “a stillborn deer” in her home in Hailey, Idaho.)
On one hand, it’s sad when animals die young. On the other, they clearly have the best death imaginable by being placed in the house of a Hollywood millionaire. When God closes a door, Demi Moore opens a window and is like, “Hop in.”