Tallulah Willis shares important message after fan says her 'body was triggering'

Tallulah Willis has shared an important message after she took down a photograph showing her recent weight loss when a fan said her "body was triggering".

The 26-year-old daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis shared the selfie on Wednesday to promote Kim Kardashian’s loungewear brand and could be seen wearing black pair of shorts, a bra top, and a hooded sweatshirt by SKIMS.

"[I] took it down because I felt [sensitive], vulnerable and guilty after I saw some comments that my body was triggering," Tallulah wrote.

She added that the pandemic and other factors have caused her "more acute stress" than she's ever gone through before and that her body's "subconscious mechanism/response to stress has predominantly been lack of appetite and shedding weight".

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"I do not deny that in the past I have leaned into this response, fetishizing what was happening, ignoring the importance of general health and vitality," she confessed. "Today this is not the case, I am working very deeply from the mental side as well as physical to keep myself and my well-being at the highest point of priority."

The actress continued: "Aesthetics are not in play here, I genuinely cannot at this moment tell you why/how this is happening to my body. Regardless of size and shape, it is still my body, my armor, what protects my precious organs and functions and so I still must be proud of all it does."

"I do not mean to trigger, but I also do not feel I want to hide or be ashamed of where I'm at or my process," she wrote, adding:

"I hope to be as transparent as possible. I plead with you, do not see this as inspiration, or a desirable place to end up.

"See a young woman who is very tired, who lacks energy, who is trying to frantically nourish herself while figuring out how to minimize stress."

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The American Psychological Association defines a trigger as "a stimulus that elicits a reaction. For example, an event could be a trigger for a memory of a past experience and an accompanying state of emotional arousal."

Los Angeles psychotherapist Bethany Marshall told Yahoo Life: "'Triggering' means that a current event - seeing an image, hearing a word - stimulates the same negative emotions that were experienced during a past traumatic event. It can feel as though a past traumatic event is happening again."

Marshall added that for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, triggers can cause flashbacks.

"This is a very specific experience where a current event recalls all of the emotions of the original trauma," she says.