Rumer Willis opens up about her unconventional upbringing and how it influences her own parenting style after giving birth to her first child, daughter Louetta.
- April 3, 2025
AceShowbiz - Rumer Willis, the 36-year-old daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, has recently shared insights into her unique approach to parenting on the "What in the Winkler?!" podcast with Zoe Winkler Reinis.
Drawing from her own upbringing, Rumer's parenting style is deeply rooted in the close-knit and unconventional family dynamics she experienced growing up.
In her conversation, Rumer revealed that she has co-slept with her daughter Louetta since her birth, and she hopes this continues as Louetta grows older.
"Honestly, I hope Lou will, like, still sleep in bed with me when she's my age," she stated. "I still sleep in bed with my mom, and I don't think it's weird."
She shared another tradition with her mother and sisters, Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis, "We all still take baths together, my sisters and I. And that's just the kind of house that I grew up in."
Rumer's perspective on co-sleeping challenges conventional parenting norms, likening it to the natural behavior of animal mothers and their offspring. "I always think about it as, imagine if you took a baby gorilla or a dog when it was two weeks old or three months old, and had it sleep in a different room than [its] mom. Everyone would look at you like you were crazy," she said.
"But yet we're like, 'Oh no, that kid can sleep through the night. It's got to fend for themselves, got to learn how to self-soothe.' They can't even feed themselves!" she argues.
Reinis, a mother of three boys, echoed Rumer's sentiments but emphasized the individuality of each child. "It really just depends on who your kid is," she noted, sharing her own experience with different attachment needs among her children.
Despite potential criticism, Rumer stands by her decisions, aware that public opinion will always scrutinize her parenting choices due to her family's high-profile status.
"At the end of the day, the unfortunate reality is that - because of who I am and because of who her grandparents are - no matter what I do, people are gonna have an opinion about [Louetta], about how I'm raising her [and] what I'm doing," she reflected.
Rumer also credits her parents' co-parenting approach following their divorce as a model for her own family. "Even when they split up, they created such a beautiful foundation of prioritizing my sisters and I that I never felt like I had to choose. They never played against each other," she praised.
This strong family foundation has been instrumental in shaping Rumer Willis' parenting ethos.