Carre Otis Quotes
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My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.
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Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.
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We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
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Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
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I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.
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I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.
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I didn't know what to do with calories.
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I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?
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I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
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Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
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It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
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I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.
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What has worked for me is therapy in conjunction with nutritionist who specializes in eating disorders that I see every two weeks.
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But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.
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Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
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I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
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I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.
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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
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Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
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In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.
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Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
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While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.
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When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.
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I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.