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Carre Otis is an American model who gained prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Born on September 28, 1968, she made a name for herself in the fashion industry with her unique style and charm. Her career spanned multiple international fashion brands and magazine covers.

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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.”

Believe Made Hard I Believe Progress Commit Liberation Sustaining

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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?”

Fishes Bars Cows Vegetarianism Sushi

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

Found Keys Balance Extremist One Direction

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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.”

People Ads Riding Great Work Motorcycle Groundbreaking

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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.”

People Body Seems Young Eating Disorder Dissatisfaction Eating Disorder

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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.”

Kind Cases Grew Grew Up Doctors Throat Flu Prescriptions Ailments Antibiotics Sore Throat

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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.”

Should Trying Forever Paid Size Myth

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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.”

Past Next Found Illness Cures Hopeful Dependence Prescriptions Medication Slippery Slopes Slippery Slope

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

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

Feelings Lifts I've Learned Surround Leaving Me Drained Lift Me Up

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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.”

Children Moments Universe Parent Realizing Your Children

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

Tree Dog Seven Chickens Classroom Assistance Jam Acres Olives Olive Trees

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

Models 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.”

People Kind Mean Young Girl Media Messages All Kinds Older Women

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“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.”

Individual Consciousness Awareness Movement Elements Yoga Universal Breaths Unions Wide Despite Variety Preference

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“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.”

Want Feels Littles Two Girl Grows Voice Responsibility Growing Up Subjects Honestly

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

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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.”

Beautiful Circumstances Balls Currents Karma Unexpected Curves Unfolding Life Unfolding

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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.”

Needs Different Differences Support Shapes Size Different Shapes And Sizes

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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.”

Realizing Yoga Deeper Variety Performing Posture Deeper Meaning

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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.”

Long Has Beens Values My Own Healing Path Taught Source Various Guidance Wellness Take Time Great Value

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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.”

Mean Long Different Tvs Eating Sitting Size Couches Watching Tv

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

Knows Life Is Bases Uncertainty

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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.”

Culture Language Differences Environment Abuse Impact Oppression Globes Similarity Language Culture

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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.”

Demand Disease Arena Modeling Alcoholics Anorexia Bartender

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

People Feels Mean Subjects Judgment Uncomfortable Controversial Exposing

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

Kids School Clear Pace

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

Running Feet Mountain Crosses Train Bike Bicycle Skis Skates

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

Littles Country Break My Family Delight Obligation Little Time

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“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.”

Thinking Want Two Size Deny

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

Heart Situation Anorexia

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“My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.”

School Law Father Parent Moved East San Francisco Law School

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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.”

Parent Stupid Assured Stigma Dyslexia

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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.”

Born Taken Childhood Diversity Adults Raised Mindset Granted Taken For Granted Born And Raised Californians

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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.”

Way Drug Weight Diets Pills Fasting American Diet

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“My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.”

Years Felt Doctors Factors Modeling Contributing Malnutrition Formative Years

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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.”

Drug Eating Alcohol Treatment Disorder Ice Cream Eating Disorder Drugs And Alcohol

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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.”

Self Mother Choices Daughter Deserve Safety Protection My Daughter Personal Life Our Daughter Your Daughter

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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.”

Ifs School Fall Making Money Modeling Fall Back Runaway

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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.”

Years Today Values Process Focus Proud Aging Aging Process Outer Beauty

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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.”

Years Born Months Dad Bars Just One My Sister Eighteen Exam Bar Exam

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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.”

Mother Wife Daughter

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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.”

Years Weight Insane Diets Modeling Starvation Anorexia

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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.”

Young Joy Roles Perspective Industry Insight Motherhood Decades Granted Young Women Modeling New Perspective Modeling Industry

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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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Born: September 28, 1968
Known for: Model
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