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.
From Carre Otis
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.
It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.
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 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 had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
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.
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.
The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.
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