INTERVIEW: Demi Moore

Demi Moore is on the cover of V magazine for its spring preview issue.

On being such a female household:
"We're loaded with females. Recently we added a male puppy to our family mix. We had all female dogs before that. Thank goodness I have a male assistant – otherwise Ashton would have gone from being a single guy with a male roommate to being overloaded."

On having Ashton become part of the family:
"I definitely can't answer for him but I think it certainly wasn't a difficult transition. Ashton's relationship with his own mother is really wonderful, so it made the transition to being with a woman with daughters something he didn't bat an eye at. It also says a lot about the confidence that he holds within himself as an individual."

On Rumor being a party girl:
"It's a little bit scary. It's hard to say no to curious teenagers when exciting events or things are happening. You can't live in a bubble. A key thing, and I've said this before, is to try to help your children be good decision makers."

On raising their kids in Idaho:
"I'm grateful for the grounding that being away from [Hollywood] gave them. As to being back, I'm still learning, too. Can I say that I'll look back and everything was the right choice? I'm sure I won't. But that's part of understanding that none of us are perfect, and I've never been exactly in the place that I am right now."

On Aging:
"It's important not to get yourself obsessed, because it's a game you're going to lose. When people get too obsessed we start to see these faces that don't move and are so manipulated that there’s no life to them anymore. One of the most important things about anti-aging is really in your thinking, it's what you believe.

"If you think you're old, feel that you're done growing, then you're going to have a stale life force around you. I've always enjoyed being childlike and placed an importance on being silly and playing and remembering not to take myself too seriously, because I certainly have in the past."