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Creativity Quote by Marie Osmond

"What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle"

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Osmond takes a notoriously slippery topic stress, mental health, aging, celebrity pressure and pins it to something tangible: hormones. The phrasing is blunt and a little messy on purpose. "Out of whack" is not medical-speak; it's kitchen-table language, the kind that turns private suffering into something you can name without sounding like you're diagnosing yourself on WebMD. For a musician whose public image has long been tied to polish and composure, that casual tone is its own act of disclosure.

The intent is partly explanatory and partly permission-giving. She frames distress as a body problem as much as a willpower problem, which quietly resists the moralizing that often clings to burnout: if you're struggling, it's not because you're weak or ungrateful, it's because your system is stuck in feedback loop. The repetition "produce and produce and produce" mimics that loop, making the sentence itself feel like a treadmill. By the time she lands on "wicked cycle", the villain isn't you, it's the mechanism.

In cultural context, this sits in a late-20th/early-21st century celebrity pattern: translating emotional pain into biological terms to make it publicly legible. It can be empowering (your suffering is real, physical, treatable) and limiting (it risks shrinking complex life pressures into chemistry). Osmond walks that line with a pop-star pragmatism: tell the truth, keep it relatable, and make the invisible feel concrete enough to interrupt.

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Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959) is a Musician from USA.

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