Explore Quotes by Carre Otis

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.