Documentary Quote by Zara McDermott

The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

— Scarlett Pomers

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from…

— Tipper Gore

Eating disorders can be extremely isolating, they can tear you away from your family and your friends and make you feel really ashamed of…

— Zara McDermott

“We may also discover that sexual abuse helps to explain the high prevalence rates of eating disorders among women and may lend some insight…

— Karen A. Duncan

“Eating disorders are insidious and subtly manipulative. The behaviors that initially feel like relief are the same ones that will eventually ruin you.”

— Brittany Burgunder

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

The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like…

— Sanna Lenken

I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I walked into…

— Catherine Oxenberg

I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.

— Joanna Going

“Anorexia is, without doubt, a serious eating disorder, but there is a hell of a lot of mainstream disordered eating going on out there.”

— Emma Woolf

The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a…

— Zoe Kazan

“Culture alone cannot explain the phenomena of such high rates of eating disorders. Eating disorders are complex, but what they all seem to have…

— Karen A. Duncan