Carre Otis Quotes - Page 2

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• I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

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  Forever, Trying, Size

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

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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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  Past, Hopeful, Next

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

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• When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.

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  Parent

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

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• I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

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  Feelings, I've Learned, Lift Me Up

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

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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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  Children, Parent, Realizing

  "In the Face of Change" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 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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• 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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• 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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  Doctors, Flu, Antibiotics

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

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• I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

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  Keys, One Direction, Balance

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

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• Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

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  Mean, Long, Watching Tv

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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 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 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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• 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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  Vegetarianism, Bars, Sushi

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• When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.

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  Yoga, Realizing, Posture

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

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