HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — While Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis have proven to be a prime example of how to keep a family together despite a divorce, the "Punk'd" mastermind confesses it wasn't so simple at the beginning.
"I just had to get over my ego, which was screaming, 'This guy used to sleep with your woman,' Kutcher explains in the April issue of Harper's Bazaar. "And I listened instead to the little voice inside that was whispering, 'This guy loves and cares about your woman.'
"Once I did that, it was a cakewalk," the recently-turned 30-year-old adds.
Willis and Moore married in 1987 and had three daughters together, Rumer, 19, Scout 16, and Tallulah, 14, before getting divorced in 2000.
Three years after her break from the "Die Hard" star, Moore started dating Kutcher and the couple married in 2005. She admits inviting another man into her home wasn't so simple.
"I didn't bring somebody into their lives lightly. ... Being with me isn't about just being in a relationship with me; it's about someone stepping into a situation where there is already a huge level of responsibility," the 45-year-old actress says.
While the public wondered about the age difference between the couple, Moore says "age wasn't what I was thinking about." Youngest daughter Tallulah, however, admits that having a stepdad, particularly a younger one, has definitely been an adjustment.
"I was in fourth grade, so it didn't hit me as much as it did Scout and Rumer," she says. "But it still hit me a little, and it still does now. I find it weird that people think my stepdad is hot."
In the end, everyone's happy and that's all that really matters.
"At first, I didn't know how it was all going to play out, but everything fell into place," Kutcher says. "We all support each other. I'm occasionally overwhelmed by everyone's generosity."
"I am eternally grateful for having them in my life," he adds. "That makes me want to cry and hug them and cry a little bit more."
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