#y

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. ↗

— Carre Otis

#cover #feel #grow #grow up #honestly

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription. ↗

— Carre Otis

#antibiotics #cases #doctor #every #grew

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

#dropped #fall #family #had #i

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. ↗

— Carre Otis

#deny #depicting #i #i think #images

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. ↗

— Carre Otis

#beauty #come #focus #i #inner

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction. ↗

— Carre Otis

#balance #direction #extremist #found #i

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. ↗

— Carre Otis

#feeling #i #learned #leave #lift

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery. ↗

— Carre Otis

#go #had #heart #i #seizure

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. ↗

— Carre Otis

#dependence #down #fast #found #hopeful

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes. ↗

— James Otis

#conscience #declare #despise #every #foes