Who is Emma Heming, the model who fights alongside Bruce Willis against his disease of frontotemporal dementia

On the afternoon of Thursday, February 16, via his verified account of instagram Demi Moore, ex-wife of Bruce Willisannounced with a moving message that the actor suffers from frontotemporal dementia.

“Unfortunately, the challenge of communication is one of the symptoms of the disease that Bruce faces. Even if it is painful it’s a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis“wrote the actress, who also thanked her followers for the ongoing support they have given her ex-husband.

And it is that, since 2022 the family of Bruce Willis had announced that the actor of cinema as hard to kill oh Severe times suffered from aphasia, condition that affected their cognitive abilities and this had led him to retire from his long artistic career.

Although his ex-wife was responsible for reporting the final diagnosis of Bruce Willis, who is also on the actor’s side dealing with his frontotemporal dementia, it is his current wife. Emma Hemingwhom he married in 2009 after his separation from Demi Moore.

From a British father and a Guyanese mother, Emma Heming was born in Malta on June 18, 1978.. The model spent her early childhood in London and later in Southern California, according to media reports. the vanguard.

He took his first steps in the world of modeling at the age of 16.However, his talent was discovered on the UK morning TV show titled Find me a modela competition he won in 1991.

Although her energy and time is currently spent caring for Bruce Willis, at the height of her modeling career Emmaa Heming has appeared in advertisements for brands such as Dior, Ladder, Gap, Garnier oh very intimate.

In the same way, the actor’s current wife has paraded for major European fashion houses and even for the legendary lingerie brand Victoria’s Secret.

Emma Heming’s face was also covered editions of the magazine She in Spain, France or Turkey, as well as the American version of Charm, Form, City and countryside there W Magazine.

He was in 2007, when the romance between Bruce Willis and the model began to flourish after her gym trainer became Cupid in the relationship. Two years later – in 2009 – they married in the Turks and Caicos Islands in a ceremony they attended Demi Moore -ex-wife of Bruce Willis- and the three daughters of said ex-marriage.

after marriage, Emma Heming left the modeling world to start new projects in shoe design, perfumes and fragrances for the home; in 2012 she gave birth to Mabel, her first daughter with Bruce Willis and in 2014 Evelyn Penn, the couple’s second daughter, was born.

From the love and trust in the family kept them together before any setbacks, now including the health-threatening condition of Bruce Willis.

Frontotemporal dementia is a irreversible diseaseas an expert consulted by Infobase.

“Dementia is the deterioration of cognitive functions. There is a group of dementias called cortical dementias with asymmetric focal onset, which are caused by an alteration of the tau protein, which is a fundamental component of the skeleton of neurons. Frontotemporal dementia falls into this category, and involves the prefrontal lobe of the brain, beginning with behavioral disturbances and personality changes“, explained the neurologist Alejandro Andersson, director of the Institute of Neurology of Buenos Aires (INBA).

Andersson explained that “Neurons have microtubules and microfilaments, a neuroskeleton, which is made up of tau proteins. If disturbed, it disarms and the neuron dies. Focal-onset cortical dementias can be expressed in various ways. One is progressive nonfluent aphasia, where patients have difficulty with language. Another is semantic dementia, where the patient does not understand language. And the third is frontotemporal dementia”.

According to the specialist, “the cause Frontotemporal dementia is linked to genetic mutations that compromise the tau protein, which is why they are called tauopathies. If there is a case of frontotemporal dementia in the family, there is a greater chance of having it, but there is no known risk factor. Regarding the treatment, there is currently no cure concrete. Antipsychotics are widely used to improve behavior or antidepressants to improve mood.