How Annie Leibovitz Photographed Demi Moore Pregnant & Nude
BY Marc Silber on April 28, 2011
Demi Moore–you get to photograph people several times. Those are some of the more interesting relationships, for me. And I had photographed Bruce and Demi’s wedding because I photographed Bruce Willis first, I believe, and then, started photographing Demi.
And Demi, said, “would you take pregnant pictures of me when I get pregnant?”
“I said, Oh! I’d love to!”
I actually stopped on a flight back from the west coast back to the east coast there, I think Bruce was working on a film in Kentucky, and I took these pictures. [Pointing to another image] This is one of the frames here of a Polaroid negative of Bruce and Demi when she was pregnant with her first child.
So when we got together to do this Vanity Fair cover it was kind of interesting because you know, Vanity Fair was nervous, “Well, how are we going to do this? She’s really pregnant, how are we going to fit her on the cover?” Everyone was thinking about how to disguise her being pregnant. You know, like “how to not…You know, we can’t really…You know, ah shoot? We can’t, you know, we have to take these pictures now and…I But, you know, she’s pregnant and what are we going to do?”
And everyone is thinking, oh well; I’ll “just probably end up doing a head portrait.” Everyone was really thinking about how to, evade it, and how not to …that was the way of dealing with it.
And so Demi and I, we knew each other pretty well so,after I’d taken several pictures of her with several clothing changes, I said, ”why don’t I do some nudes of you but for the second child, do you have another set of pictures?”
So she said “yes, maybe”.
So we tried to hide everything, as best you could. And I brought the work back to Tina Brown in New York and she made a decision to go ahead with it. And this is one of those things, it had a life of its own.
