"I don't know what the deal is but he did call me and tell me he thought that reality TV is a mistake and I'm making a mistake," Le Brock told TooFab during an interview about Tuesday's dramatic finale of the Lifetime series. Finding time to be quiet in this overly stimulated and noisy culture is a way to summon more peace within oneself and the planet."Growing Up Supermodels" stars Arissa Le Brock and Atiana De La Hoya's famous fathers Steven Seagal and Oscar De La Hoya have extremely different opinions of their daughter's reality TV gigs. The fact that everyone and everything on this planet is interconnected isn’t a curse, it’s a blessing – and a source of infinite hope. Every sustainable choice you make, however small, isn’t just good for the planet, but an act of self-care, repaid in whatever your equivalent of Oklahoma skies are. It’s a relief to consume less, to no longer be burdened by possessions you never needed in the first place. As counterintuitive – and difficult – as it may seem, we’ve got to shift our mindset about the environment from one of fear to joy and love, of sacrifice to enjoyment. It’s about working together to change our outlook. To move forwards, I’ve had to lean into the tenets that have guided me in my sobriety, and remind myself to take each day as it comes. If I had written this article 12 months ago, I might have quoted you statistics about CO2 emissions and deforestation rates, but you know that the numbers are bad. No matter what I or anyone in my orbit personally did, things weren’t slowing down at an acceptable rate. People didn’t seem to understand that clothes weren’t disposable more than 90 million tonnes of garments are being thrown away each year, around 60 per cent of which comprise of plastics. Social media “outfit of the day” culture, online shopping and fast fashion, especially, had exploded. In the time I’d been away from fashion, there had been tectonic shifts in the industry. In 2013, I founded Master & Muse, an online store to champion sustainable fashion production, and co-founded A Squared Films to make documentaries touching on everything from the harmful pesticides used to grow non-organic cotton to innovative ways of upcycling the huge amount of deadstock out there. I would never put myself on a pedestal – I’m so far from perfect – but I didn’t shy away from asking difficult questions either, looking for solutions and collaborators. When I returned to modelling in my 40s, I did so with an entirely different perspective on fashion. I knew that, if I was ever going to get back on my feet, I needed to find a more sustainable approach to sustainability work. The news just felt relentlessly bad – environmental and otherwise. I wasn’t quite at the point where I couldn’t get out of bed, but I couldn’t tell you how I spent my days. I turn 50 this February, meaning I’ve worked in fashion for 35 years, and I’ve been a sustainability advocate for more than 20 of those, but in 2023 I hit a wall, mentally and physically. I’ve been summoning its wide-open skies more and more often lately. Even now, when I need a moment of peace, I picture Oklahoma. My cousins and I would run wild there every weekend, riding horses underneath the willow oak trees and swimming in a natural creek so clear it must have been spring-fed. My family lived in Tulsa – still does – and my grandparents had a farm 15 minutes from town, 40 acres of land dotted with old boxcars and wooden barns that dated back to at least the ’20s. There were two phrases I heard more than anything else growing up: “Go play outside” and “Use your imagination”.
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