Carre Otis Quotes

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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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  Differences, Support, Different

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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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  Mean, People, Judgment

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• There is nothing more attractive that a woman who is sure of herself.

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  Attractive

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• I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

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  Years, Focus, Proud

  "A Sisterhood of Inner Beauty" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.

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  Believe, Progress, Made

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

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  People, Eating Disorder, Body

  "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.

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  Taken, Diversity, Childhood

  "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

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  Heart, Anorexia, Situation

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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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  People, Motorcycle, Riding

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• My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.

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  Healing, Long, Path

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Self

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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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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  Drug, Fasting, Pills

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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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  Fall, School, Making Money

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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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  Dad, Years, Bars

  Carre Otis, Hugo Schwyzer (2011). “Beauty, Disrupted: The Carre Otis Story”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

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  Daughter, Mother, Wife

  "Sisterhood Now: The Political, the Personal, and the Just" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

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  Years, Anorexia, Insane

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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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  Motherhood, Perspective, Joy

  "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

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  Scary, Balance

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• My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

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  Dog, Tree, Acres

  "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.

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• My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

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  Weight, Plus, Unthinkable

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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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  Girl, Mean, Media

  "A Sisterhood of Inner Beauty" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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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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  Ice Cream, Alcohol, Drug

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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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  Beautiful, Karma, Curves

  "Flexibility, Inside and Out headshot" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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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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  Impact, Differences, Abuse

  "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.

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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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  Anorexia, Demand, Disease

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