She was awarded international acclaim for her role in The Substance last year, a film about a middle-aged star desperate to cling onto her youth in an ageist society. 

Now Demi Moore has vowed to fight back against the 'desexualisation of older women' as she posed for a striking shoot with Glamour magazine after being named one of their Women of the Year. 

The American actress, 62, put on a very racy display for the magazine as she slipped into a strapless cut out corset with a dramatic skirt. 

Demi added to her frame with towering platform heels while she accessorised with diamond earrings. 

The mother-of-three proudly wore her long raven locks loose and cascading past her shoulders - as she explained that growing out her hair was a mini act of defiance. 

In an accompanying chat with The Substance co-star Margaret Qualley, she was asked how she managed to get her hair so long, to which she mused: 'Yeah, I think after I shaved my head when I did G.I. Jane, which was a very powerful experience on many levels, but I just started to let it grow.'

She continued: 'And it also kind of coincided with stepping back from work to be with my kids. I just started to let my hair grow. 

'And I think probably because I’m also lazy and I don’t like to sit in the chair or have to go and get it done a lot.

'[We often hear] that as women get older, they shouldn’t have long hair. And for some reason, to me, I didn’t buy it. I didn’t believe it, and it didn’t make sense to me why that had to be the case. 

'And I did notice, particularly women who were going through menopause, that they were.... I was looking around and seeing that they all were kind of cutting their hair in a very almost masculine way, just desexualising themselves. 

'And so I think there was a combination of this attachment to it too. I don’t know. Sometimes I think I’ve just willed it.'

For another striking look, Demi put on a leggy display in a backless black dress with a thigh-high split.

A quirky purple gown with a cut out across the bodice allowed her to show off her toned stomach, while she also posed up a storm in a black ballgown with a lace bodice. 

As has become customary, Demi's micro chihuahua, Pilaf made a cameo in the shoot, being cradled by her as she posed in a burnt orange gown. 

Demi experienced a career revival last year with The Substance, in a phenomenon dubbed the Moore-naissance. 

She was lauded for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed TV aerobics instructor who is unceremoniously sacked as she hits her 50th birthday and ends up deciding to try a body enhancement program called The Substance.

When she takes the injections she passes out and her skin splits down her spine, with her new self, Sue, played by Margaret Qualley, emerging as the sexy young woman she would love to be.

The price of the transformation is that they will have to spend a week in suspended animation, and a week in the real world.

The problem comes when Sue decides that she doesn't want to swap over every seven days – and when she takes some of Sparkle's fuel, the older version starts to age.

They get locked into a modern version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a Frankenstein where the monster is physically perfect. It's a feminist reflection on self hatred which packs a tremendous punch.

The subject of the gory horror – hailed as an instant cult classic – is the lengths which women will go to to transform themselves cosmetically and so hang on to the media spotlight.

It was something strikes more than a bit of a chord for Demi, who famously had breast implants and her nose straightened when she first made it in Hollywood.

She had a reported further £250,000 worth of surgery including a procedure to lift sagging skin her knees in order to spring like a goddess out of the surf in the Charlie's Angels film.

Demi was awarded a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for the role as well as an Oscar nomination - but she lost out to Mikey Madison for her role in Anora. 

It was her first Academy Award nomination.  

She previously clocked up three Razzies Golden Raspberries, the 'Oscars' for  the 'worst' performances. (For Striptease, GI Jane and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.) 

It was a remarkable turnaround for the Ghost actress, once one of the go-to film stars in the Nineties, whose film roles had been ridiculed later in life.