Anorexia Quotes - Page 3

I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it.

I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

You're only popular with anorexia.

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.

The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions.

In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.

A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

I think it's very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.

Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship.

We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

Anorexics never have boyfriends. ... That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.