VIDEO Tallulah Willis says tabloid stories contributed to her body dysmorphia

Tallulah Willis, daughter to Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, recently opened up to StyleLikeU about the struggles of growing up in an unsought spotlight.

“I struggled a lot when I was younger,” said Tallulah, 20, for the What’s Underneath Project. “I’m diagnosed with body dysmorphia from reading those stupid f**king tabloids when I was 13, with the feeling that I was just, like, ugly. Always. I believed … strangers more than the people that loved me, because why would the people who loved me be honest?”

Tallulah indicated she was most self-conscious about her face, so she tried to distract others by wearing heavy-duty push-up bras and short shorts.

“It took me until a year ago… and I remember specifically one day putting on a button-up and buttoning it up all the way to my neck and having long pants on,” she said. “The fact that all of the attention would be on my face, and that was so scary for me because I always wanted to distract people [from it], and at that time I realized I wasn’t who I was anymore.”

Unfortunately, Talluluah said that set off a whole new wave of problems as she fixated on her weight, which eventually plummeted to a dangerous 95 lbs.

“When I lost my curves, when my boobs shriveled up into nothing, and I had no shape and I was just saggy skin everywhere… I viewed super-skinny me as the smart and intelligent,” she explained. “I was able to have the physical transformation so that everyone could see my differently kind of, which they did. But, actually it was the reverse because I was creating more of a cage in myself and developing more of an issue.”

These days, the healthy Clothing Coven founder aims to promote “self-confidence and self-expression through fashion, beauty, and art.”