Love Quote by Carre Otis

The missing apostrophe in “It not unusual” almost helps the line: it reads like a breath cut short, language starved the way an anorexic body is starved. Coming from Carre Otis - a model whose industry has historically treated thinness as both aesthetic and currency - the sentence lands less like a clinical PSA and more like testimony with receipts. It refuses the comforting idea that anorexia is only “about image” or “about control,” and yanks the listener toward the unglamorous endpoint: organ failure, collapse, sudden death.

The specific intent is blunt harm-reduction. Otis isn’t polishing a metaphor; she’s issuing a warning about physiology. Heart attacks are usually framed as a middle-aged man’s problem, a steak-and-cigarettes stereotype. By attaching them to young women with anorexia, she punctures two myths at once: that eating disorders are “vanity illnesses,” and that youth is a protective shield. The subtext is accusation without theatrics: a culture that celebrates visible fragility shouldn’t act surprised when fragility becomes literal.

Context matters. In fashion and celebrity culture, the body is public property, endlessly commented on, endlessly managed. Otis’s line reads as an intervention into that feedback loop, where “discipline” gets praised until it turns into pathology. The spare, almost awkward construction mirrors the topic’s refusal to be made palatable. No inspirational arc, no redemption packaging - just the cost, stated plainly, in a vocabulary that can’t be airbrushed.