Edith Gutiérrez

There was a time when I thought I wouldn’t make it. When the weight of depression, trauma, and toxic cycles felt too heavy to carry. But here I am. Not just surviving—thriving.

I’ve lived many lives in just one lifetime—model, actor, yoga teacher, first-gen college grad, and most importantly, a woman who chose healing over survival.

I started modeling at 12, but acting? That took courage. I finally faced the dream in 2020, right after a reality TV show (catch me on Netflix’s Sexy Beasts Season 2, Episode 1). But before all that, life tested me. I married young at 21 and divorced 9 months later. It was violent. It was heartbreaking. And it nearly broke me. It took me two years just to function again. School became my escape—I graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a degree in Political Science, the first in my family to do so.

But after college, the depression hit harder than ever. I was a shell of myself—98 lbs, lost, numb. Then, I found yoga. Movement became my medicine. Healing became my mission. By 2019, I became a yoga teacher, and in sharing my journey online, doors started opening—modeling gigs, acting, opportunities I never imagined.

In 2021, I finally went all in on my dream, training for two years at The Sanford Meisner Center. But life had one more test for me. I fell into another toxic relationship, reliving the wounds of my past. Anxiety. Panic attacks. cPTSD. My nervous system was in survival mode. Acting school forced me to face myself, and it cracked me open.