Carre Otis Quotes

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

That always stuck with me. When I finished school in 2015, I started going to open calls in New York. But I was getting the same response every time: 'Get your measurements down. Take X inches off your thighs and hips.'

I definitely feel the pressure to lose weight and be smaller than I am.

I have seen actresses avoiding food out of fear that beauty would be lost.

In this industry, it's sad that a superficial thing like weight loss can actually define your career, but if that is the case, so be it.

What do they want me to do, get lipo? I'm just big boned. There's nothing I can do.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

When I first went to visit different agencies in New York, a lot of them were like, 'You have to lose a lot of weight.'

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.'

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.