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Normal isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
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Horsham
Victoria
Australia
Portia Lee James DeGeneres
Amanda Lee Rogers
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If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.
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I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.
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I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
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I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.
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I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
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Reality TV now doesn't feel reality TV when it started. The line between reality and fiction is blurred. So many of these people are phony or shallow, in their own right. If you've ever watched any of The Real Housewives, or those types of shows, they're all performing. Even though they're real people, they're performing.
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People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
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When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
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I have a very, very healthy relationship with food in that I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I never restrict quantities or types of food.
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I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.
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We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
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I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me.
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I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
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My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.
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I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.
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If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.
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Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
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Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
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