Demi Moore's shocking new airbrushed images

Demi Moore is back to work, post an alleged drug-related collapse and follow-up treatment, this after her split with Ashton Kutcher last year. The 49-year-old, celebrated for her sex appeal and star of films such as Ghost, Indecent Proposal and Disclosure, has been looking stressed and emaciated in recent months.

None of that is evident in a startling set of images from the latest campaign for beauty brand Helena Rubinstein. Demi has been the face of Helena Rubinstein since 2006.

The heavily airbrushed images, showing Demi almost 20 years younger with flawless skin, sharp features and a perfect jawline – are being hotly debated online, with many saying though common in the beauty industry, they create “false beauty”.

After separating from Ashton Kutcher at the end of last year, 2012 began badly for Demi Moore. She was hospitalised in January, after an emergency call to 911 from her home in Los Angeles. A female friend was at Moore's home when the 49-year-old actress started "shaking" and "acting like she was suffering from a seizure". The friend then called 911 and about 30 minutes after paramedics arrived Moore was taken to the hospital.

However, celebrity website TMZ reported that the Margin Call star was taken to the Los Angeles-area hospital for substance abuse, but her representative declined to comment on the TMZ report, saying, "We have no information beyond our statement."

Instead, Moore's representative issued a statement saying, "Because of the stresses in her life right now, Demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health. She looks forward to getting well and is grateful for the support of her family and friends." Her representative also confirmed that the star has dropped out of the Linda Lovelace biopic Lovelace, in which she had been cast as feminist icon Gloria Steinem.

Coming up: Demi spotted with a (much) younger man

Demi Moore had said changing her Twitter handle @mrskutcher wasn't a top priority for her, but that perhaps is all she wants to keep from her six-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher. The two split after details of Ashton cavorting with a party girl on the weekend of his wedding anniversary, hit the headlines.

After showing the strain of a collapsed marriage for weeks, Moore was recently spotted hanging out with Blake Corl-Baietti, 26, a personal-trainer and a model, in Los Angeles.

However, there are no confirmed reports on the two dating.

Coming Up: Demi Moore's backstory

Rags To Riches: Born as Demi Gene Guynes to Charles Harmon and Virginia King on November 11, 1962, Demi had a tragic childhood. Her biological father left her mother even before she was born. And her step-father Danny Guynes, whose name she adopted, was hardly an improvement.

Growing Pains: Dealing with alcoholic parents and domestic violence formed a huge part of her childhood. Growing up was not easy for Demi and her two younger half-brothers James Craig Harmon and Morgan Guynes

Not many know that Demi was cross-eyed as a young girl. It took two surgeries to get her looking like she does now. The actress also suffered from kidney dysfunction in her early days.

Friends Like These: When the family finally settled in Los Angeles, Demi went to school with the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, bassist Michael Balzary (aka Flea) and actor Timothy Hutton. It was here that she decided to try her luck as an actress.

In 1980, Demi's biological father committed suicide when she was only 17. However, the same year she married Freddy Moore, whose surname she retained. She also featured in one of his videos, It's Not a Rumour. They separated in 1985.

I Thee Wed: In 1987, she met and married actor Bruce Willis. The couple have three daughters, Rumer Glenn, Scout LaRue and Tallulah Belle. This marriage ended in what was perhaps Hollywood's most amicable divorce in 2000 – Demi and Bruce remain good friends even today

Cougar Town: Next she moved on to the much younger Ashton Kutcher and their romance was constantly under the scanner. After two years of happy coupledom, they took the plunge in 2005

Mr and Mrs K: In 2007, Demi changed her last name to Ashton's and also said she wanted have a baby with him. For his part, Ashton joined his wife in practicing Kabbalah

Good God: A former scientologist, Demi once famously put her religious beliefs best as, ““I didn't grow up Jewish, but I would say that I've been more exposed to the deeper meanings of particular rituals than any of my friends that did.”

Demi not only looks doll-like, she also is one of most high-profile doll collectors in the world. Her favourite is the Gene Marshall fashion doll

Demi, More: Seven-months pregnant with Scout LaRue, Demi appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair. Perhaps the most controversial cover ever, the photo was interpreted in many ways, a symbol of empowerment and sexual objectification not being the least of them.

Parody Central: The Spy magazine version of the photograph placed Bruce Willis' head on her body, and was famously emulated again by Moroccan news reporter Nadia Larguet on the magazine Women of Morocco. Championing the aesthetics of womanhood and pregnancy , ‘ I am Pregnant and I exist', might not have been Demi's intention but it sure turned out this way.

Follow Suit: Demi has been a Vanity Fair cover favourite. After the infamous pregnant cover, she posed in her birthday suit a second time – this time painted on! Subsequent covers on the magazine had her fully clothed, though

A Star Is Born: Demi trained as an actress with John Casablancas and made her movie debut in Parasite, in 1982. The movie was a hit, grossing $7 million.

Small Screen Wonder: But it was her character, Jackie Templeton, on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital, that really got her noticed.

Smells Like Teen Spirit: She appeared with fellow bratpackers Emilio Estevez and Rob Lowe in teen movies St. Elmo's Fire and About Last Night made her Hollywood hot property

She had a hit with The Seventh Sign in 1988 and then, in 1990, came her star-making turn in Ghost. She never looked back since

The Star's My Destination: Movies like A Few Good Men and Indecent Proposal set her on the path to becoming the most sought after actresses in Hollywood.

Show Me The Money: But it was her performance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which helped her touch the $10 million salary mark, a first for any actress in the history of film

South Side: But the magic of Ghost proved hard to recapture. Later movies like The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, Striptease and G.I Jane were on a definite downhill curve

Demi turned producer with a TV mini-series, If These Walls Could Talk, written by Nancy Savoca. A series on abortion, Demi's performance earned her a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination.

Fallen Angel: She took a break from acting, and invested in restaurant chain Planet Hollywood. But her comeback in 2003 as Madison Lee in Charlie's Angel showed the industry that nobody puts Demi in a corner

Two-gether: In 2006, Ashton and Demi both starred in Bobby, but shared no screen time

Her most recent movie appearance was in Mr Brooks, where she plays a detective investigating a serial killer case.

Movie roles may be few and far between now, but Demi keeps herself on the radar by making the most of micro-blogging site Twitter. She and husband Ashton have taken Tweeting to an entirely new level, prompting many other celebrities to do the same

Movie roles may be few and far between now, but Demi keeps herself on the radar by making the most of micro-blogging site Twitter. She and former husband Ashton have taken tweeting to an entirely new level, prompting many other celebrities to do the same.