Top 30 Anorexia Quotes

A misperception about anorexia is that you don’t eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, ‘Why didn’t my parents notice?’ But I didn’t want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.

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.

I’m really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

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 always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker’s party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

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.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

I didn’t choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. ‘I know what I’ll do: I’ll just not eat.’ That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease – not a choice by any means.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don’t endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.

I struggled with restricting and purging. It is not really anorexia or bulimia. It is more anorexia than bulimia, but it doesnt fit super neatly into a box, which I learned through my years of treatment that more and more eating disorders dont fit neatly into a box.

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.

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There’s no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.

I was struggling with anorexia, and one of the biggest problems with an eating disorder is you don’t realize you have it. And you can’t heal until you realize there’s a problem.

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It’s awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It’s a terribly selfish thing to do.

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

While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I’ve learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.

I initially decided to speak about my anorexia and bulimia, partly out of a selfish motivation. I felt I had been scrutinised for my weight and thought, ‘At least judge and criticise me on the facts.’ There was a freedom with that. Now it’s out there, and I just get on with life. I’m at peace with things.

Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.

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 want to feel I’m responsible for anorexia across the country.

Now I’m being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. – On being a social smoker.

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

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

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It’s serious.

I was anorexic in the ’60s and ’70s, although it wasn’t called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn’t high on my agenda. But it is now.

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.