Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Listen to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of experience with anorexia, my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation. — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker. — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body. — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it. — Keshia Knight Pulliam Copy Share Image
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw… — Tracey Gold Copy Share Image
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are. — Peta Wilson Copy Share Image
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you… — Peter Barham Copy Share Image
“Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of… — Julia Hoban Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
I did extensive research on media and anorexia and found out that the fashion magazines are to blame in a way. They… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
“[Eating disorders] are a wonderful tool for helping you reject others before they can reject you. Example: You're at a party. The… — Stacy Pershall Copy Share Image
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“Why did I allow the abuse to continue? Even as a teenager? I didn’t. Something that had been plaguing me for years… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“I decided to say something. It was through an email, an email to my mom confessing that I had a problem with… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
Why? You want to know why? Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
“If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says,… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
“I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt… — Carol Lee Copy Share Image
For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
“She used to look forward to changing in the locker room when other girls stole shocked glances at her emaciated body last… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image