I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I think it would be fair to say that most female dancers have dealt with, whether it's an extreme, or minor complex… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
We are male and female. We are artists, athletes, students, and business owners. We have depression, DID, PTSD, eating disorders, borderline personalities,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So much shame goes hand-in-hand with an eating disorder, with addiction of any kind. It's very lonely because you don't know how… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
In college I had a coach who did that for me. I was struggling so much mentally with depression, anxiety, eating disorders...… — Bianca Belair Copy Share Image
“Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
“We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way.” — Kate Wicker Copy Share Image
Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't. — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
“When you have a persistent sense of heartbreak and gutwrench, the physical sensations become intolerable and we will do anything to make… — Bessel A. van der Kolk 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
“Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After… — Jenni Schaefer 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
“The barriers we face in life are so often the ones we create in our minds. As a child I couldn’t open… — Leanne Waters Copy Share Image
Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But… — Richard Simmons 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 want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's… — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
It’s like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he’s a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
For me to look skinny on camera would require me to have a really violent eating disorder, and I refuse to do… — Leslie Grossman Copy Share Image
