LOS ANGELES — Demi Moore doesn't understand why marrying the much younger Ashton Kutcher suddenly made her the poster child for "cougars."
"I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl," the 47-year-old actress, who prefers to be called "puma," tells W magazine. "I don't know why that is. But I just kind of step back sometimes and say, 'There is some reason, and what is it that I have to share in a positive way?' "
Moore and the 31-year-old Kutcher recently celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary and the Ghost star says their relationship continues to amaze her.
"The most overwhelming part of meeting someone that you already felt you had such a deep and old connection with is that your feelings are greater than the time you've had to actually be with one another," she says. "Now we've had the physical time together. The love he has for me makes me a better person by giving me the courage to take risks. I can fail and have someone who loves me just the same. I never knew it was quite possible."
The couple likes to keep their fans updated on their marriage and careers through the micro-blogging site Twitter.
"You post something and get your finger on the pulse," Moore says. "You know what people are interested in."
"People are much more interested in what I have to say directly," she adds, "and that really changed the whole dynamic I have with fans."
But not everything in cyberspace is rosy for Moore, including an incident earlier this year in which she engaged in a heated showdown with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton after he commented on the "boobs" and "ass" of her 15-year-old daughter, Tallulah.
"We were away for my daughter's birthday," she explains. "When I came back, thousands upon thousands of people were writing to me, outraged about what had been posted about my 15-year-old daughter. I felt like I needed to acknowledge it."
While she remains as popular as ever in the public eye, Moore is no longer the big-budget movie star that she once was — a development that she attributes to her age.
"The frustrating part is that the type of roles I'd be interested in are not really coming to me," says Moore, who next stars in the indie films, Happy Tears and The Joneses. "I hate to say it's a function of my age—but yes, I think in some ways it is. The majority of [female] roles are geared between 25 and 35."
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