Rumer Willis is opening up about how her relationship with her mother influences how she parents her toddler.
The 90210 alum revealed during her Tuesday, April 1, conversation on What in the Winkler podcast with host Zoe Winkler Reinis that she co-sleeps with her daughter and will also share a bed with her own mother, Demi Moore.
Rumer, 36, has co-slept with her daughter, Louetta, who will turn 2 years old on April 18, since Louetta was born, she said. Rumer shares Louetta with ex-boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas.
“Honestly, I hope Lou will, like, still sleep in bed with me when she’s my age,” Rumer continued, adding, “I still sleep in bed with my mom, and I don’t think it’s weird.”
Rumer is the eldest daughter of Moore, 62, and Bruce Willis. The former couple also shares daughters Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 31.
Rumer also told Reinis, 45, that she and her sisters “all still take baths together.”
“And that’s just the kind of house that I grew up in,” she explained. “People might think that that’s crazy and weird, but I don’t.”
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She went on to explain why she chose to co-sleep with her toddler.
“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. 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,’ ” Rumer said. “They can’t even feed themselves!”
“By the way, we as adults don’t even know how to self-soothe,” she continued. “We call a friend. People drink wine, people do drugs, people eat an entire tub of ice cream.”
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Reinis, a mother of three boys, echoed Rumer’s sentiments about co-sleeping. She confirmed that every night, her 7-year-old sleeps with her and her husband, Rob Reinis, but she noted that it has differed for each child.
“It really just depends on who your kid is,” Reinis said. “My middle would never. If I get in his bed, he’s like, ‘I’m good, Mom.’ My youngest, his attachment is different, and it showed in a different way. He needs to sleep with us, and I know that about him, and I know it won’t last forever.”
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Rumer later told Reinis she understands that people will judge her parenting style and decisions no matter what.
“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.”
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