With two daughters under the age of six, Bruce Willis often finds it hard to escape the chaos at the Bedford Hills, New York, abode he shares with wife Emma Heming Willis.
“With two kids? Not many places to find peace, but my office works,” the actor shared in the November issue of Elle Decor. “I’ve made it so boring in there that the kids want nothing to do with it.”
A fellow East Coast native, Heming Willis, 39, explained she and New Jersey-bred Willis, 62, wanted to settle into the suburbs when it came to raising their two children, Mabel, 5 and Evelyn, 3.
“We knew New York was where we would end up and ultimately want to raise our kids. But we also have a love/hate relationship with the city. It’s busy, and the spaces can be small,” she explained. “I also wanted to keep the kids as sheltered as we could from the paparazzi, and that scene is still very prevalent in L.A.; it’s not bad in New York, and it’s zero up where we live, so that played a big part in our decision-making too.”
Though only one half of the couple is active on Instagram — “I want nothing to do with social media, so I leave that up to Emma,” Willis stated — the duo of eight years have found a different way to honor each other filter-free.
“The only thing we have around on the shelves are awards, and that’s all my doing. Bruce has some very special awards, of course, and some that are pretty unique,” Heming said. “As for me, I was an MVP softball player back in high school, so I made sure those trophies got their rightful places on the mantelpiece, too!”