Carre Otis Quotes

"You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Food, Life, Balance)

"We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Beauty, Support)

"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."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Years)

"The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Dress, Job, Pressure)

"I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Heart, First)

"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."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Family, Money, Work, Options, School)

"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."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Diet, Drugs, Weight)

"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."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Control, Being, Disease)

"It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Women, Heart)

"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."
- Carre Otis
(Related: Food, Alcohol, Drugs, Eating, Treatment)