“In 1944-1945, Dr Ancel Keys, a specialist in nutrition and the inventor of the K-ration, led a carefully controlled yearlong study of… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater. — Justine Bateman 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
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break… — Alice Greczyn Copy Share Image
“I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000. It seemed… — Tracey Emin 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 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
“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
“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've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange,… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
What if that one car didn't quite see me and just maybe hit me? Would anyone care that I'm gone. Suicide is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for… — Honeysuckle Weeks 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
“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
“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
“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem… — Karen A. Duncan 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
When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day,… — Justina Machado Copy Share Image
I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense,… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
