Emma Heming calls husband Bruce Willis a 'gift that keeps giving' as she celebrates his 69th birthday amid dementia battle

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Emma Heming Willis took to social media to shower her husband Bruce Willis with love and admiration amid his battle with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Sharing a throwback picture of the actor holding one of their children, she celebrated her husband's 69th birthday.

Emma Heming says she 'simply adores' her husband Bruce Willis

Expressing the sense of safety she feels in Willis' space, Heming's post was accompanied by a poignant caption.

"Just like you, we simply adore him. What you might not know, but maybe you could imagine, that being wrapped in his arms is the safest place in this whole wide world," she wrote.

"He’s a true gentle-man. With so much love to give and share. That’s what I get to see, his true core. I can tell you, it’s so pure and ever so good," she added.

"Happy Birthday my love. You are the gift that keeps giving,” she ended the caption.

Emma Heming expresses frustration over Bruce Willis' condition being misrepresented

Heming recently expressed her frustration over "clickbait" articles misrepresenting the 'Die Hard' actor's health condition and their family life.

On March 3, Heming posted an Instagram video in which she candidly spoke about Willis continuing to bring joy and love to their lives despite his diagnosis and slammed those sharing misinformation about his condition.

According to the Mayo Clinic, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a condition connected to dementia that primarily affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain and impacts a personality's personality, behavior, and language.

Since Willis' diagnosis in February 2023, Heming and the actor's older children have been actively using their platforms to raise awareness about FTD and have been debunking common misconceptions about the condition.

"I need society -- and whoever's writing these stupid headlines -- to stop scaring people," Heming said in the video referencing to Willis' diagnosis.

"Stop scaring people to think that once they get a diagnosis of some kind of neurocognitive disease that -- that's it. 'It's over. Let's pack it up. We're -- Nothing else to see here. We're done.' No," she said at the time.

"There is grief and sadness. There's all of that. But you start a new chapter," she added.

Heming and Willis, who tied the knot in 2009, share young daughters, Mabel Ray, 11, and Evelyn Penn, nine. She shared that this "new chapter" of their life is filled "with love, it's filled with connection, it's filled with joy, it's filled with happiness," according to ET.