I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything. — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated. — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
“Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.” — Kate M. Taylor Copy Share Image
“No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath.” — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
I was struggling with anorexia, and one of the biggest problems with an eating disorder is you don't realize you have it.… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body.… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
I struggled with restricting and purging. It is not really anorexia or bulimia. It is more anorexia than bulimia, but it doesnt… — Malika Andrews Copy Share Image
Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers… — Susan Bordo Copy Share Image
“While she is still hospitalised, I take Emma out for strengthening walks, for her muscles and been under-used for a long time.… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
“Every lineament of the girl's wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagine what kind of pain… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this… — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress. — Aimee Liu Copy Share Image
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious. — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what… — Michael Elmore-Meegan Copy Share Image
One Day, I will Wake up and Will Not have to live in this madness anymore. But No matter what I do… — Dakota Blue Cicilline Copy Share Image
I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training,… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public.… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on… — Emma Woolf Copy Share Image
“Emma says her illness was a kind of self-hypnosis which obliterated the outside world, a way of escaping life and reducing its… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
“Fooling the body into thinking it's full on only a thousand calories can be difficult. The trick is to chew the food… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Anorexia is a self-destructive thing, and you become stubborn, so when people are trying to tell you something, you get it into… — Jade Thirlwall Copy Share Image
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world;… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
“i deem her insecurities insufferable turn-offs as if the male standard for sexiness is a gospel that demands she stop starving herself… — Britt Greifeld Copy Share Image
She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which… — Renee Olstead Copy Share Image
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“As I searched for food perfection, and as I gained weight, I began to realize that the race for perfection in anything… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image