Carre Otis Quotes

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.
Carre Otis

Life, Beautiful, Karma

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
Carre Otis

Beauty, Different, Support

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.
Carre Otis

Women, While, Language

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.
Carre Otis

Control, Before, Alcoholic

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
Carre Otis

Life, Change, Experience

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

Become, Parent, Anymore

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.
Carre Otis

Life, Born, Granted

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.
Carre Otis

Union, Individual, Universal

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

Life, Young, Body

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
Carre Otis

Making, Means, Judgment

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.
Carre Otis

Time, Learning, School

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

Women, Mother, Wife

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.
Carre Otis

Diet, Everything, Through

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.
Carre Otis

Women, Equality, Hard

I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.
Carre Otis

Run, Bike, Mountain

I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
Carre Otis

Family, Time, Alone

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.
Carre Otis

Work, Great, Woman

I didn't know what to do with calories.
Carre Otis

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.
Carre Otis

Two, Voice, Grow

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.
Carre Otis

Doctor, Trip, Sore

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.
Carre Otis

Work, Family, Money

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
Carre Otis

Heart, Surgery, Seizure

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.
Carre Otis

Women, Two, Public

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
Carre Otis

Dad, After, Year

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.
Carre Otis

Try, Forever, Paid

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Model

Born: September 28, 1968

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