Emma Heming Willis is celebrating 16 years of marriage to Bruce Willis and opening up about both the good times and the bad.
“Today marks 16 years with the love of a lifetime,” Emma, 46 , wrote via Instagram on Friday, March 21, along with a photo of the pair sharing a warm embrace. “We’ve shared monumental highs and devastating lows, and through it all, we’ve built something timeless.”
She continued, “I’m so deeply grateful for every chapter I’ve had with him — and all the ones we’ll continue to write, in our language of unconditional love.”
Emma met the famed Die Hard actor, 70, in 2007 while the pair were working out at a mutual trainer’s gym. Two years later, the couple got married in Turks and Caicos before walking down the aisle again in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills six days later.
In 2012, the couple welcomed their first child together, daughter Mabel. Two years later, they welcomed their second daughter, Evelyn. (Willis also shares three daughters, Rumer Willis, Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis, with ex-wife Demi Moore.)
In 2022, the Willis family revealed that Bruce had been diagnosed with aphasia and, as a result of his diagnosis, was forced to retire from acting. The next year, in 2023, the family gave fans a further update, sharing that he had received a “more specific diagnosis” of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), for which there are no treatments or known cure.
“Since we announced Bruce’s diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTW),” Moore, Emma and their respective daughters wrote in a statement. “Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces. While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis.”
In 2023, in honor of her husband’s 68th birthday, Emma described Bruce as “pure love.”
“He is pure love. He is so loved. And I’ll be loving him always. Happy birthday my sweet,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “My birthday wish for Bruce is that you continue to keep him in your prayers and highest vibrations because his sensitive Pisces soul will feel it. Thank you so much for loving and caring for him too.”
At the time, she opened up via her Instagram Story that she spent the morning crying as a result of her husband’s diagnosis and ongoing health battle.
“Sometimes in our lives, we have to put our big girl panties on and get to it, and that’s what I’m doing,” she explained. “But I do have times of sadness every day, grief every day and I’m really feeling it today on his birthday.”
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