Rumer Willis says she’s ‘single momming it’ after breakup with boyfriend

Rumer Willis is co-parenting “the most effective factor” in her life with ex Derek Richard Thomas.

The 36-year-old posted on her Instagram tales Aug. 22 that she and Thomas have damaged up. They share 16-month-old , whom they affectionately have nicknamed Lou.

Responding to a query about whether or not she and Thomas are “nonetheless a pair,” Willis stated, “Nope.”

“I’m single momming it and Coparenting,” she added. “I’m so grateful for Lou. She is the most effective factor in my life and I’m eternally grateful I used to be in a position to have the time in that relationship for her to come back into my life.”

In responses to questions on having youngsters, Willis stated she needs “6 or 7.” She continued answering questions into Aug. 23, revealing whether or not she would “have extra youngsters as a single mama.”

“Positively as a result of having siblings is likely one of the finest components of my whole life,” Willis stated, shouting out Scout, Tallulah, Evelyn and Mabel as her “finest buddies and favourite folks.”

“I would like that for Lou. So open to no matter that appears like sooner or later,” Willis added.

Lou has had a big effect on Willis’ life. The “Sorority Row” star instructed TODAY’s Hoda Kotb on Might 29 that her daughter helps her really feel extra assured when she performs onstage.

“I feel I all the time used to really feel a bit nervous typically the place I had that, virtually, imposter syndrome. … And there’s one thing about changing into a mother that simply, I don’t know, I’ve this type of (feeling like) I can do something,” she stated.

Willis defined that it has additionally been good to see her mother and father, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, get alongside together with her child.

“Truthfully, seeing them together with her, it simply, it virtually unlocks all of those childhood recollections as a result of being a grandparent, I feel, is the most effective. They’ve the entire love and pleasure with none of the duties,” she laughed. “They get to only spoil her.”

“Lou is simply beginning to stroll slightly bit and she or he was strolling over to (Bruce Willis) and it was so candy,” she added. “It’s so good as a result of I really feel like my dad is simply, he’s a woman dad by way of and thru. It virtually unlocks that sort of little child, woman dad factor. He’s so candy together with her.”

Willis additionally opened up about motherhood throughout a Dec. 19 Q&A she did together with her followers on . There, she revealed how she got here up together with her daughter’s title.

“Her title is a mixture of issues I really like,” Willis wrote in response to a query concerning the title. “I’ve all the time beloved the title Lou so was pondering of that for each a boy or a woman however then once we came upon she was a woman we got here up with Louetta. We needed to provide her choices, and me and my dad’s favourite singers are Lou = Louie Armstrong, Etta = Etta James, Isley — Isley Brothers.”

The portmanteau of the names “Lou” and “Etta” combines the names of the 2 Black solo musicians who as soon as sang alongside one another for the tune “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” In the meantime, The Isley Brothers — who impressed Louetta’s center title — popularized the tune “Twist and Shout” in 1962.

In April 2023, Laura Wattenberg, founding father of Namerology.com, spoke to TODAY.com about Willis’ child title for her daughter.

“Louetta is an unconventional alternative in the present day, a real throwback,” Wattenberg stated on the time, noting that within the early portion of the twentieth century, it was in vogue so as to add “Etta” to the tip of a reputation.

“It might have been the peak of vogue,” she defined, including that “mother and father of that point used the then-trendy ‘Etta’ ending the best way mother and father in the present day use endings like -leigh and -lyn.”

“You might need met a Loretta, Rosetta, Annetta, Floretta and plenty of extra,” she continued. “In the present day, this type of title is ultra-rare. It reveals that you just don’t essentially should invent a brand new title to be distinctive.”

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