"Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself"
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The dogs matter. They signal a private self that’s physical and unfiltered, the kind of companionship that doesn’t negotiate status or read magazine covers. By choosing an animal-centered memory rather than, say, a childhood ambition, Hunter tilts the narrative away from achievement and toward temperament. The subtext: what you see as “Rachel Hunter” is a job. What she experiences as “me” is instinct, play, comfort, maybe a little feral independence.
There’s also a strategic tenderness here. Models are often asked to traffic in self-objectification; the public gaze tends to treat them as surfaces. Claiming the 5-year-old self is a way to re-humanize the surface without sounding defensive. It invites you to adjust your scale: the glamorous adult body is real, but it’s not the core. In an era that turns women’s images into public property, her insistence on an inner continuity is quietly radical. It’s not nostalgia as sentimentality; it’s nostalgia as boundary-setting.
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| Topic | Nostalgia |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hunter, Rachel. (2026, January 15). Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sometimes-i-think-i-am-still-that-5-year-old-girl-155863/
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Hunter, Rachel. "Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sometimes-i-think-i-am-still-that-5-year-old-girl-155863/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/sometimes-i-think-i-am-still-that-5-year-old-girl-155863/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.





