In a heartfelt Instagram post shared Tuesday, Dec. 30, the 47-year-old model and actress looked back on the moment Willis became her boyfriend 18 years ago. Alongside a tender photo of the couple sitting together at a table, Willis kissing her cheek, Heming Willis wrote, “18 years ago, he became my boyfriend. With one kiss on the top of my head, time stood still.”
“I’m so lucky to know this kind of love,” she added.
Heming Willis married the The Sixth Sense star in 2009, and the couple have since built a close-knit family together. They share two daughters — Mabel Ray, born in 2012, and Evelyn Penn, born in 2014.
Willis is also father to three adult daughters — Rumer Glenn, Scout LaRue and Tallulah Belle — from his previous marriage to Demi Moore, whom he was married to from 1987 until 2000.
Earlier this year, Heming Willis opened up about how their romance began, tracing it back to a 2007 family vacation to Turks and Caicos that included Willis, Moore and their children.
“I got to see this other side of Bruce, who was a family man,” she said at the time. “On that trip, I ended up falling for him really hard. That was the start of our love story.”
She has often described their life together as busy, full and fun — especially when it came to parenting. Heming Willis recalled how her husband always made time for his kids, even during demanding filming schedules.
“If the girls were swimming in the pool, he would come home, dive in with his clothes on just to get a laugh,” she said. “He’s the iconic girl dad.”
More recently, Heming Willis has spoken candidly about how their family has adapted since revealing in February 2023 that Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a progressive degenerative brain disease.
“It’s joyous. It’s just different,” she said while attending the End Well 2025 conference in Los Angeles in November. “Bruce loved Christmas and we love celebrating it with him. It just looks different, so we’ve kind of adapted to that.”
Keeping familiar traditions remains important to her — including watching one of Willis’ most famous films.
“I think it’s important to put Die Hard on because it’s a Christmas movie,” she joked.
Heming Willis has been open about the challenges of dementia, while also stressing that happiness is still possible.
“You have to learn and adapt and make new memories, bring in the same traditions that you had before,” she said. “Life goes on. It just goes on. Dementia is hard, but there is still joy in it. We are still laughing. It just looks different.”
Her message — rooted in love, resilience and honesty — continues to resonate with fans around the world as she and Bruce Willis face this chapter together.
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