I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel… — Kristen Johnston 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
“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
“I knew, deep down, that running would not save me. Rawchael would not save me. Rachael would.” — Rachael Rose Steil 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
“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
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney,… — S. J. Perelman 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 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 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
[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 think maybe they come out into the grounds in nightwear. But no, in typical anorexic stype they have read the fashion… — Carol Lee 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
“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
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
You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of… — Teresa Lo 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
I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I… — Portia de Rossi 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
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you're taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class… — 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
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