a correspondent on Channel 4 News in San Francisco. In August 2003, Otis posed for a PETA ad campaign promoting vegetarianism and animal rights. In 2005, she represented the Breil jewelry line. She is on the advisory board of the Model Alliance and an ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association. Works Beauty, Disrupted: A Memoir (2011) is an autobiographical book by Otis and Hugo Schwyzer. Otis tells the story of her life and modelling career. She details abuses she suffered, including being raped "countless" times as a young girl by Gérald Marie, the head of Elite Model Managements Paris office. During her marriage to actor Mickey Rourke, she claims he was abusive, and even threatened to kill himself if she didn't marry him. Personal life Otis developed three holes in her heart during her modeling career. Otis is a vegetarian. From June 1992 to December 1998, Otis was married to Wild Orchid co-star Mickey Rourke. In 1994, Rourke was arrested for spousal abuse. The charges were later dropped. In 2005, She married chemical engineer Matthew Sutton, they have two children. References External links 1968 births Living people American female models American television actresses American film actresses American Buddhists Actresses from San Francisco Plus-size models Actors from San Rafael, California American memoirists American women memoirists 21st-century American women