For devotees of the 1990s brand of supermodel, the name Carré Otis conjures up wonderful memories not only of her modelling prowess but also of a woman who got very serious with the self-destructive Mickey Rourke before he developed his own (presumed) plastic-surgery addiction (as photographed above in 1990’s Wild Orchid).
Sadly, our agencies don’t have any more recent photos of Carré after 2005, but she does appear in an interview in the September issue of Vogue Australia (the one with Victoria Beckham on the cover). Carré is now 44 years old and seeks to come clean after decades of starvation and lying in response to fanmail in regard to her dietary and fitness habits. The results are rather heartbreaking:
On her workout lies: Ms Otis confesses she used to tell people she did “Jazzercise three times a week and light weights,” but that “the heavily guarded truth” was that she exercised “a minimum of two hours a day, seven days a week.”
She lied to her fans: She tells a fan who said she’d “die to look like [her]” that she had developed three holes in her heart, which she attributes to “a culmination of 20 years of starvation. In your letter you said you’d die to look like me. Well that’s almost what I did.”
Being sexy was an act: “As you can see, insecurity and the endless desire to look perfect were the only consistent things in my life. Right beneath the surface I was … scared and very, very sad.” She compares her feigned confidence in front of the camera with how she used to “fake sexual satisfaction” with her then-boyfriend. “I sure fooled him, and you.”
She starved herself into hair loss: “Insecurity and the endless desire to look perfect were the only consistent things in my life.” At runway shows and photo shoots, hairstyles often gave her hair extensions and wigs to create that “shiny and full” look, she says.
Does she feel bad about lying? “I can’t go back in time to answer those young girls. But] I hope to provide some insight by answering them now.”
[From Vogue Australia]
Ahh, workout lies. You wanna know my very favorite from contemporary supermodels? The “I don’t stick to a routine but mix it up with lots of stuff” as in “mountain climbing and paddleboarding and sometimes volleyball!” variety just “to avoid getting bored.” Bitches, please. Anyone who stays in serious shape knows that the routine gets boring at times, but that’s just part of the challenge. If it was easy, everyone would be “in shape,” so I just wish that models could be candid enough to admit that they work their asses off to keep their very lucrative professions intact.
Here’s Carre in 2002 at the 1st Annual Runway for Life benefit. Girlfriend was and is gorgeous, and I hope she eventually achieves some peace.
Photos courtesy of WENN
