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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.
Carre Otis
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Carre Otis
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 28
Film Actor
Model
San Francisco County
California
Carre Otis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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