He doesn't see my breasts or my waist or my hips. He only sees the nightmare.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.
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.
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.
The stuffingpukingstuffingpukingstuffingpuking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.
Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.
Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.
I tried to go anorexic for a good three hours. I ate ice and celery, but that’s not even anorexic. And I quit. I was like, 'Ma, can you make me a sandwich? Like, immediately. '
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.
When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins. . . and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.