I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI’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.
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I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
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Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.
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Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren’t what pulls us apart. It’s what pulls us together.
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There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that’s like an indulgence.
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The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models’] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.
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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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I think our culture promotes fear and shame.
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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!
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One of the photographers was like, “Can you stop talking and try to look sexy for a minute?”
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In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.
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I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
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My generation is one of the first generations of “choiceful” women – women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives – and I don’t think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.
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Nothing goes to windward like a 747.
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When you feel happy, you look beautiful.
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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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This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
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I sometimes think to myself, you’re not going to meet a new friend of any kind at home in front of the TV with your DVR. As much as it’s great, and there are so many good shows on TV, and I have great books that I’m reading, get out and interact with people.
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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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When I’m not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it’s time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite “milkmaid” braid.
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Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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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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If I’m going to show cleavage or chest then I don’t show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.
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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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There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
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Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.
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And it acting was exciting to me. And scary.
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