• She was seven months pregnant then.

Yes, she was seven months pregnant and it was a wonderful celebrity cover, I think. Annie Leibovitz, who is one of the great photographers of our time, took the picture.

• Tell us about how it happened and how did you persuade her. Because most movie stars would be loathe to do something like this.

Annie and I, both of us, really, wanted to do a cover that made a statement that the 1990s are going to be different from the 1980s. The age of glitz is over, and we want to have a more stark, sort of, personal and simplistic look. We were looking for that kind of story, and I said to her, 'Let's try to show the fact that she's pregnant, instead of just doing her face, which a lot of magazines obviously would have done. Let's show her shape.' I was pregnant at that time too and I said, 'Let's celebrate womanhood. Let's make a feminist cover about womanhood.' Of course, Annie being Annie, she takes it one step further. At the end of the shoot, she says to Demi, 'Shall I just take a picture of you without anything for you and Bruce (Willis)?' Demi loved that idea and she posed for that picture.

• So there was no preparation.

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