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 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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI’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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSAfter 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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSThis is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSSometime 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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSMy 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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSIt 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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSSometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it’s as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI buy what makes my heart sing. So, it’s not that I follow one specific track. It’s sort of what I like. I love colors. I love unique pieces. I love vintage clothing.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSMy 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.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSOne of the things I’ve realized is how portable God is. No really, He’s everywhere!
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI 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 ROSSIt would drive the photographers crazy because I would giggle and tell jokes. I was gregarious, and looking back, I realize I had a captive audience.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSWhen you feel happy, you look beautiful.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSI am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.
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