Carre Otis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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I didn't know what to do with calories.
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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 had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
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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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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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I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
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It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
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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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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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There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.
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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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When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.
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I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.