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I've never interviewed anyone where I set out to try to persuade them to reveal something. Instead, it's about creating a space that allows someone to be authentic without judgment on my part.
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If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.
Amanda de Cadenet
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I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'
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People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.
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I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.
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As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.
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I'd personally like to see more 'real bodies' in magazines.
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I go to the Korean spa when the kids go to bed. It's like I turn my brain off.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Things are only as important as you make them out to be.
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When you've worked as hard as I have to form your identity, the last thing you want is to blur where you end and someone else begins.
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I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let them down.
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I've worked very hard on my self-esteem, and I know my value.
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Sitting down with the insightful Gabourey Sidibe was a wonderful experience.
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Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
Amanda de Cadenet
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People know what authentic communication feels like, so having someone else handle your social media/commenting doesn't feel honest to me.
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Portia de Rossi is a gorgeous woman, and I found it incredibly refreshing to discover that she puts very little stock in her appearance, instead preferring to concentrate on what goodness she can put into the world around her - a choice we can all learn from.
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I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
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I grew up in front of the camera from an early age. It distorts your perception of who you are. Having a lot of attention at a young age is not healthy.
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As women, we're trying to be the best mothers and partners and have careers. We're trying to do so much. It's okay to say to other women, 'How do you do this?' Because I honestly don't know. The more we are honest, the more you realize we're all just trying to figure this out.
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I went from being able to walk down the street and be ignored to having men whistle at me. I was an insecure young girl, and it felt good to have attention, even though it was inappropriate.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.
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No one understood why I would wanna be behind the camera, not in front of the camera, and so no one took me seriously, and people said, 'Oh, well, this is just a hobby isn't it?' and I said, 'No, I really love this. I wanna make this my career,' and I did not have a lot of support at all for many years. People just kind of thought it was a joke.
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We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.
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Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.
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