Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
What particularly concerns me is the rise of osteoporosis in young people and its link with eating disorders. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
Eating disorders can be extremely isolating, they can tear you away from your family and your friends and make you feel really… — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
You'll never fully understand depression, eating disorders, or the need to self inflict, until you go through it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depression is not an act. Eating disorders are not for fashion. Suicide isn't a cowards escape. Self-harm is not a cry for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin… — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?"… — Jessie Kahnweiler Copy Share Image
When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions. — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness...… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of… — Kim Raver Copy Share Image
I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind… — Jenni Schaefer 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
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents:… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I feel honoured to be making my third documentary with BBC Three and bringing visibility to this complex subject. The stats regarding… — Zara McDermott Copy Share Image
“And that freshman year, as I looked into the mirror, as I stepped onto that scale every morning, as I crawled into… — Rachael Rose Steil Copy Share Image
As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at… — Darren Fletcher Copy Share Image
For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“As a journalist in Providence, I was particularly drawn toward stories about women's issues: I wrote about discrimination, abortion, violence against women.… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March. …. I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“The leap of faith is this: You have to believe, or at least pretend you believe until you really believe it, that… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a woman… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“Along with many other professionals, I’ve come to the conclusion that shame is much more likely to lead to destructive and hurtful… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that. — Laura Wilkinson 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
BULLYING CAN LEAD TO: 1.)Depression 2.)Self-harm 3.)Eating Disorders 4.)Suicidal Thoughts 5.)S U I C I D A L — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.” — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
