“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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
Dear Anorexia, You are my best friend, and my worst enemy at the same time You are my greatest achievement, and yet… — Dakota Blue Cicilline Copy Share Image
“Emma cites the structure of the [Eating Disorder] Unit as being important to her decision to disengage from her illness, and the… — Carol Lee 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
“[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
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott 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 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
“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
Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got… — Carre Otis 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
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
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
“I don't think you can get really out of anorexia (or any addiction, for that matter) until you simply have no other… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth,… — Jena Morrow 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
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
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
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and… — John Green 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
“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
“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
“Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would… — Carol Lee 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
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
“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
![“Emma cites the structure of the [Eating Disorder] Unit as being important to her decision to disengage from her illness, and the fact that she felt safe in it, and cared for. 'It was the first time I'd been in an environment where I felt comfortabe with all the people around me. I felt "I can be…” quote by Carol Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/419/carol-lee-39506_anorexia_emma-cites-the-structure-of-the-eating-d_45862.jpg)
![“[Eating disorders] are a wonderful tool for helping you reject others before they can reject you. Example: You're at a party. The popular girls are there. You know you can never be as cool as they are, but when one of the pops a potato chip into her mouth or chooses real Coke over Diet, for that…” quote by Stacy Pershall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcd/stacy-pershall-33606_anorexia_eating-disorders-are-a-wonderful-tool-fo_2456897.jpg)
