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" I really feel like I found myself, and when I found myself, I found the music along with it. "
Lauren Alaina
Along
Like
Myself
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" I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in. "
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" There are so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity, and I feel like I have a direct reach to some of those people. "
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" I just desperately wanted to be thin. That's all I thought. I was obsessed with it, which it was ridiculous because I had everything going for me. I was following my dream. Everything I wanted at the time, I was getting. But I was obsessed with this other thing that was making me unhappy. "
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" I remember my doctors examining my vocal cords and asking if I had an eating disorder, and I instantly said no. But then my mom, who was in the room with me, said my name in her 'mom voice,' and I just lost it. I didn't realize that she knew or that anyone knew. "
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" Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist. "
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" For whatever reason, people just like to come out and say whatever they want to say about you when you're on TV. "
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" Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!' "
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Story
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" As a 15, 16-year-old girl, someone messaging you on Facebook and telling you you're fat is devastating. It's still devastating when someone says something horrible about me, but I love myself so much more as a person. "
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You
" I've been really fortunate with touring and sales and all those things because I have such a loyal fan base. "
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Fan
" Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak. "
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" I really, really look up to Carrie Underwood a lot because she came from a small town that has the same population as mine - 3,500 people. "
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" I'm a huge country music fan, and there are so many girls that I look up to, especially Carrie Underwood, which everyone knows because I've shouted it out for a while now. "
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" When I first heard my song 'Georgia Peaches' on the radio, I opened up the car windows and started screaming to the other people on the road, 'My song's on the radio!' Of course, I wasn't driving. "
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Car
Driving
" There were blogs that called me Miss Piggy. It's a really hard thing to see as a teenager, especially when you already have problems. Reading what people had to say about me online definitely made it worse. People can be vicious. "
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" I meal prep when I'm traveling and make sure to have three solid, high-protein and low-carb meals a day with a few snacks in between. But I try not to be too hard on myself. At the end of the day, it's all about having a healthy balance. "
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" I won't change who I am for anything. "
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" I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever. "
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" It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it. "
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Interesting
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" I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself. "
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Acceptance
" I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else. "
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" I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place. "
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Place
" I don't let people say mean things to me! I don't surround myself with people who'd want to do that. "
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Say
Want
" Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret. "
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" I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable. "
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" I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows. "
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