Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.
For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.
We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest. " She had to feel it.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.
In all the years I've been a therapist, I've yet to meet one girl who likes her body.
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
Anorexics never have boyfriends. . . . That's one way to know you don't have anorexia, if you have a boyfriend.
You're only popular with anorexia.
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.
Looking to biology to explain the low prevalence of eating disorders among men is like looking to genetics to explain why nonsmokers do not get lung cancer as often as smokers.
What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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.