You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying. — Carre Otis Balance Copy Share Image
I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. — Carre Otis Drained Copy Share Image
Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV. — Carre Otis Couches Copy Share Image
I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike. — Carre Otis Bicycle Copy Share Image
I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for… — Carre Otis Believe Copy Share Image
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got… — Carre Otis Alcoholics Copy Share Image
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country. — Carre Otis Break Copy Share Image
It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks. — Carre Otis Anorexia Copy Share Image
My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model. — Carre Otis Did Copy Share Image
But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve… — Carre Otis Balls Copy Share Image
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 Clear Copy Share Image
I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a… — Carre Otis Essentially Copy Share Image
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't… — Carre Otis Fall Copy Share Image
Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played… — Carre Otis Decades Copy Share Image
I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to… — Carre Otis Drug Copy Share Image
Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis. — Carre Otis Bases Copy Share Image
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable. — Carre Otis Controversial Copy Share Image
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school… — Carre Otis East Copy Share Image
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. — Carre Otis Bar exam Copy Share Image
But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union… — Carre Otis Assert Copy Share Image
The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job. — Carre Otis Dress Copy Share Image
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in… — Carre Otis Beauty Copy Share Image
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and… — Carre Otis Children Copy Share Image
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. — Carre Otis Aging Copy Share Image
