Emma Heming, Bruce Willis celebrates 16th anniversary following dementia diagnosis

Emma Heming has celebrated her 16th wedding anniversary to husband Bruce Willis – calling him a “special man” -  as the actor continues his fight against dementia.

The former model took to Instagram and shared several pictures of them kissing.

“16 years with this special man. My love and adoration for him only grows,” the 45-year-old captioned the post.

She also shared the post on Instagram stories.

“16 years together!? Lord where did the time go,” Heming wrote.

“Sweet 16,” she wrote alongside the image of the couple kissing.

Emma Heming’s love notes on social media come more than a month after she admitted to personal challenges she and her family have faced following Willis’ frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.

Back in November, the businesswoman wrote in an op-ed for Marie Shriver, “I struggle with guilt, knowing that I have resources that others don’t. When I’m able to get out for a hike to clear my head, it’s not lost on me that not all care partners can do that…When what I share about our family’s journey gets press attention, I know that there are many thousands of untold, unheard stories, each of them deserving of compassion and concern.”

She added that she feels fulfilled as an “advocate” for ones “who don’t have the time, energy, or resources to advocate for themselves.” She has shared that it is “hard to know” whether her husband is aware of his condition.

Heming, 45, and Willis, 68, married in March 2009. The couple shares daughters Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, 9.

From his marriage to supermodel Demi Moore, he is also a father to three daughters Rumer Willis, Scout LaRue Willis, and Tallulah Willis.

In March 2022 Willis announced that he was stepping away from acting following aphasia diagnosis. A year later the family shared that his aphasia, a a brain disorder that impacts speech and language comprehension, had devolved into frontotemporal dementia.

The statement read, “While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis. FTD is a cruel disease that many of us have never heard of and can strike anyone. For people under 60, FTD is the most common form of dementia, and because getting the diagnosis can take years, FTD is likely much more prevalent than we know.”