163 Quotes About Anorexia

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

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

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

they hate their phobias and want to get rid of them. But these women with anorexia simply think, 'This is the way we are.'

In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well. It's just heartbreaking. As someone going through it, it's heartbreaking. And as a friend who's helping a friend going through it, it's heartbreaking. It's a real, real disease.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.