Carre Otis
13 quotes
Biography
Carré Brennan Otis is an American model and actress.
"I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country."
"We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences."
"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."
"I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam."
"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."
"The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years."
"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."
"Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis."
"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."
"You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying."
"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."
"From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids."
"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."