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After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.
-- Tracey Gold

All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.
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Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
-- Tracey Gold

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.
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I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.
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I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.
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I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.
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I had a very public battle with anorexia.
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I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn't really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.
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I have an occasional glass of wine if I'm at a party, if I'm out at dinner with my husband. I'm not a big drinker.
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I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.
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I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.
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I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.
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I love acting. But I love being a mother. To be a full mother and a full person, you have to do what you love, and that's acting. But I like the best of both worlds.
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I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.
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I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.
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I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.
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I'll always have a baby face.
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I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.
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I'm not acting, but I am acting.
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I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.
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I've been so in my moment about my life.
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I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.
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I've gone around the country and talked about anorexia, so I always feel like I've reached young women. And now I'm speaking about the DUI.
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I've got a pretty good appetite right now.
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In my whole experience with the anorexia, one thing I really found about myself was that my voice is really powerful and people listened.
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Life comes full circle.
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My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
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Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
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Our society is so consumed with numbers and what a number reads on a scale. I was starving. I was barely functioning.
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Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself.
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The only way I know how to get through an experience is by trying to feel that I could help other people by what I went through.
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When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.
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You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.
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You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.
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You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body.
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You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.
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You want to say, I wish I had done this. I wish I had done that. And you can't go back. That's the scariest thing.
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Your life can change on a flip of a coin. The choices you make are crucial. We feel somehow we're safe. But things can change in a flash.
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