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Another cause I feel equally as passionate about is body image. I recognize that I am part of an art form that at its best inspires and celebrates the tragedies and triumphs of our humanity, but at it’s worst is a machine to make people feel like they need and want more and more to be happy. I suppose I am talking about art vs. commerciality and there is a huge discussion to be made about whether the two can ever be exclusive, but the struggle that I have everyday is knowing that while I can be an inspiration to a lot of girls, I can also make them feel more and more distant from themselves. I sit in a make up chair for 2 hours a day so I can look as good as possible for my show, but that also creates a false image for viewers to expect of themselves. I want to find a way to help girls love their bodies, and love themselves for who they are, not what some false image on the television or the cover of a magazine is telling them they should be because guess what….not even those girls look like that. So many of us are at war with ourselves and we must end it.

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I feel very strongly about the state of our environment. I hate the way we, human beings, and particularly Americans, are eating these days. It is irresponsible, dangerous, unhealthy and unsustainable, and my head gets set on fire whenever I hear the people who say, “it’s my food and I don’t want to know where it comes from, I just want it to taste good.” Nothing irritates me more because it is that attitude that is depleting our oceans, destroying our o-zone layer, causing obesity in children at the age of two. I just want us to be aware. I just read Johnathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals” and I recommend it to anyone who wants to be aware of what they put in their body and what we are doing to the earth.

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true love is a dream sold to us at a young age. it will be easy, it will be beautiful. but to truly love someone is work and sacrifice. every time i read romeo and juliet i can’t help but feel like i’m being lied to. these great lovers, these heroes of romance were never given a real run. they were never tried or tested. and i believe the love that they were so ready to die for, could never have lasted if they lived.