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
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
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
“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
“Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.” — Kate M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it. — Celia Imrie 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
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when… — Nan Goldin 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
In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will… — Sloane Crosley 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
“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
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
“At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches… — Marya Hornbacher 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
“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
“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
“Eating disorders are prevalent among women who were sexually abused as children. They seem to have components of other symptoms such as… — Karen A. Duncan 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
“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
“Weird? Absurd? That’s how it seemed to me. I had these forces, these compunctions, these alternative personalities inside me, driving me. It… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale 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
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
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'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia. — Bianca Balti 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
“Religious fasting is the best way to cure an anorexic's spirit: in heaven her condition will be normal.” — Bauvard 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
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 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
I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I… — Carre Otis 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
“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
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
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
