About Carre Otis: Carré Otis is an American model and actress.
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
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.
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.
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.
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'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
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.
The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.
I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
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.
My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It's taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.
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.
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.
From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.
I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.
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.
