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“In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!"”

Want Looks Littles Hate Girl Hollywood I Hate Dinner Actresses Fats Hate You I Hate You Invincible Anorexia Skip Katniss Rumours Obese

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.”

Self Numbers Primaries Originality Anorexia Eating Disorder

Author:Jean Guitton

“Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.”

Men Self Dream Support Anorexia Eating Disorder

Book:Feather Fall: An Anthology

Source: Feather Fall: An Anthology

“I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.”

Ends Self Leaving Thieves Leaving Me Anorexia Eating Disorder

Book:Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”

Love Self Love Is Self Love Flattery Anorexia Eating Disorder Flatterer

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.”

Want Feels Country Responsible Anorexia

Author:Courteney Cox

“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.”

Huge Amount Sick Deny Anorexia Eating Disorder Bulimia Binge Purging Anorexia And Bulimia

Author:Tracey Gold

“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.”

Thinking Needs Would Be Loses Numbers Comfortable Gains Weight Fats Anorexia

Author:Tracey Gold

“I had a very public battle with anorexia.”

Battle Anorexia

Author:Tracey Gold

“I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.”

Anorexia Tabloids

Author:Tracey Gold

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

Ifs Knows Way One Way Anorexia Anorexics

Author:Ann Coulter

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

Girl Secret Anorexia

Book:Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves

Source: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves

“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.”

People Hurt Taught Waste Selfish Awful Things To Do Love Life Realising Wasting Time Bloody It Hurts Starving Anorexia Starving Yourself

Author:Celia Imrie

“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.”

Persons Problem Body Political Individual Environment Addiction Contests Starvation Obesity Anorexia Psychiatric

Author:Thomas Szasz

“I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.”

Wish Hell Cancer Anorexia Wintergirls

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.”

Felt Responsibility Media Ridiculous Chosen Anorexia Scapegoat Anorexics

Author:Kate Moss

“Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.”

Cancer Lungs Anorexia Lung Cancer

Author:Kate Moss

“We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.”

Self Loses Ignorance Self Love Infinite Bondage Anorexia Eating Disorder Nothing To Lose Infinite Power

Book:Unity Is Peace: Interfaith Speech

Source: Unity Is Peace: Interfaith Speech

“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.”

Ifs Body Sides Party Danger New York Pressure Workers Pounds Decline Body Image Cookies Flocks Your Side Anorexia Co Worker Physique

Author:Sloane Crosley

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

Years Body Girl Likes Therapists Anorexia

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.”

Strong Secret Safe Models Discovery Magazines Agreement Dozen Anorexia New Discoveries Magazine Covers

Author:Steven Levenkron

“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.”

Men Eating Lows Cancer Biology Disorder Lungs Genetics Anorexia Eating Disorder Smokers Lung Cancer

Book:Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Source: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

“Most women in our culture, then, are disordered when it comes to issues of self-worth, self-entitlement, self-nourishment, and comfort with their own bodies; eating disorders, far from being 'bizarre' and anomalous, are utterly continuous with a dominant element of the experience of being female in this culture.”

Self Body Culture Issues Comfort Elements Eating Female Self Worth Disorder Dominant Bizarre Entitlement Nourishment Anorexia Eating Disorder

Book:Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

Source: Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

“I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.”

Mean Fats Obsessed Anorexia Calories

Author:Victoria Beckham

“People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.”

People Want Asking Former Anorexia Anorexics

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.”

Years Hard Exercise Healthy Eating Extremes These Days Pushing Allies Immune Anorexia Immune System Thinness Ally Mcbeal

Author:Calista Flockhart

“I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't.”

Knows School Taken Grandmother My Grandmother Anorexia Lots Of Friends Great Grandmother

Author:Keira Knightley

“[The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.”

People Feels Doe Said Ideas Film Suffering Industry Presses Yesterday No Idea Anorexia Film Industry Anorexics

Author:Keira Knightley

“I would eat 300 calories a day - a lot of Jell-O and no-sugar everything, of course. I was doing Pilates, weight-training, circuit training; over lunch I would run on a treadmill in my dressing room with a fan on my face so I wouldn't sweat my makeup off.”

Running Faces Courses Rooms Fans Training Weight Makeup Lunch Sweat Sugar Dressings Anorexia Calories Circuits Pilates Dressing Rooms Treadmills Weight Training Circuit Training

Author:Portia de Rossi

“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.”

Self Mother Becoming Disease Selfish Consuming Anorexia Becoming A Mother

Author:Tracey Gold

“I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.”

People Feels Feet Healthy Size Tall Anorexia Anorexics Tall Women

Author:Kristen Johnston

“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.”

Years Weight Insane Diets Modeling Starvation Anorexia

Author:Carre Otis

“Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.”

Knows Believe Said Belief Knowledge Ready Eating Mysterious Flattery Anorexia Eating Disorder Credulity Calumny Calumny Is

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.”

Looks Eye Fall Eating Falling Down Anorexia Eating Disorder

Author:Emily Saliers

“Where do you go to get anorexia?”

Inspiring Food Cooking Diets Culinary Nutrition Anorexia

Author:Shelley Winters

“You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.”

Trying Mind Sometimes Missing Bears Eating Anorexia Eating Disorder

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.”

Ability Changed Easier Eating Tasks Persist Anorexia Eating Disorder

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Greedy Anorexia

Author:Keshia Knight Pulliam

“We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a thing that women just do. We forget that it is a violent act, that it bespeaks a profound level of anger toward and fear of the self.”

Thinking Littles Self Forget Levels Habit Profound Violent Phases Bizarre Anorexia Quirky Bulimia Psychosis Violent Acts

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.”

Men Stills Self Doors Awareness Anorexia Eating Disorder Hinges

Author:Meister Eckhart

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

Thinking Film Teenager Anorexia Being A Teenager

Author:Christina Ricci

“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.”

People Ifs Would Be Agendas Delicate Anorexia Anorexics

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“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.”

Men Problem Seems Age Common Boys Groups Becoming Men And Women Backgrounds Becoming More Anorexia Bulimia Impervious Anorexia And Bulimia

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.”

Used Force Television Pride Actresses Feds Opera Soap Anorexia Sentimentality Upstairs Soap Operas Impervious

Author:S. J. Perelman

“I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.”

Ifs Ends Body Hate House Gone Stage I Hate Mirrors Anorexia Shorts Self Hatred Bras Self Hate

Author:Fiona Apple

“You're only popular with anorexia.”

Art Media Entertainment Anorexia

Author:Tori Amos

“I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.”

Anorexia

Author:Tracey Gold

“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.”

Years Self Self Esteem Esteem Anorexia

Author:Tracey Gold

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

Awful Anorexia

Author:Celia Imrie

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