American - Model | September 28, 1968 -
Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.
Carre Otis
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My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
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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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From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.
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Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.
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I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.
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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.
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I didn't know what to do with calories.
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When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.
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I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.
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When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
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But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.
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