“I promise no food will ever hurt you as much as a negative mind.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
I became very depressed, and my only way of coping with it was through my eating disorder, so I just stopped eating. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
“I knew, deep down, that running would not save me. Rawchael would not save me. Rachael would.” — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf” — Stacey M. Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
I just saw a fat guy with a shirt that said: I beat anorexia. Defiantly made my day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
I'm posting this because I'm stronger now. Anorexia isn't beautiful...Its deadly I'm lucky to be alive &getting healthy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
“Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
“My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system.… — Calista Flockhart Copy Share Image
“For girls who've been pressured into sex they didn't want, growing into a woman's body can be terrifying. Anorexia and bulimia can… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“[. . .] and in addition to the feeling of being full there was another more terrifying one, as if a hundred… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own… — Susan Bordo Copy Share Image
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,… — John Walford Copy Share Image
“I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
“I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
I want to have a nice stomach I want to feel confident at the beach I want to get guys I want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Can you tell me why you added weight to your gown?" Dr. Chu asked. Another trick question. Bones shrugged. "I wanted you… — Sherry Shahan Copy Share Image
I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest… — Harriet Brown Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March. …. I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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