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.
From Carre Otis
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.
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.
My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.
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.
Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
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