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I’m a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life – joyfully.

Tracee Ellis Ross

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

Appearance Blind Eyes Myself Point Way Work
Sometime in my second year at Brown [University], I took an acting class. And the lightbulb went off for me. I fell in love with it. I realized that everything I was afraid of about myself, all my fears, could be used in that world.
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Acting Class Fall Fear Love Myself Time World
This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren’t exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.
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Explore Herself Husband Life Reflection Simplicity Woman
I’m extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don’t mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn’t exist, as did Oprah.
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Blessing Empowerment Existence Mom Woman
My mom didn’t adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.
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Mom Morning Myself Record Rule Sleep
My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn’t have to be something you get from somewhere else.
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Beautiful Hairs Lesson Myself Play
After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, “Mom, I’m moving out! I made it!” I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.
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College Lover Myself Paid Season Thinking
And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
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Act Excitement Myself Scare
I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.
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Magazine Modeling Myself Organization Spoil Work
I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
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Culture Fear Promote Shame Thinking
It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.
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Acceptance Myself Need Start Stop
My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.
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Growth Manifestation Mom Personality Shy
I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
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Beautiful Feeling Finding Trying Version
I’m a farmer’s market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that’s local, and it hasn’t been frozen yet, it’s pretty fantastic.
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Beautiful Fantastic Girl Market Myself
I don’t know that the stereotypical idea of what it is to be a child of somebody hugely famous necessarily comes into play in my life.
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Famous Huge Ideas Life Myself Necessary Play
Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.
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Magazine Myself Obsession Wall

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