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I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. -- Kirstie Alley
If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder. -- Courteney Cox
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop. -- Vanessa Carlton
Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol. -- Carre Otis
Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women. -- Tipper Gore
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures. -- Emily Yoffe
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself. -- Karolina Kurkova
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. -- Demi Lovato
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. -- Voltaire
In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder. -- Joyce Giraud
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused. -- Marcel Proust
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. -- Helen Keller
You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful. -- Scarlett Pomers
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. -- Emily Saliers
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. -- Meister Eckhart
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -- Matthew Arnold
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like. -- Scarlett Pomers
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. -- Marya Hornbacher
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. -- Dag Hammarskjold
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. -- Naomi Wolf
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. -- Carre Otis
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that. -- Laura Wilkinson
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books. -- Jane Green
I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder. -- Lena Dunham
I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was. -- Geri Halliwell
I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone. -- Richard Simmons
Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves. -- Tipper Gore
An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do. -- Nicole Richie
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. -- Michelangelo
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? -- Richard Bach
In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing. -- Kim Raver
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. -- Rachel Cusk
I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood. -- Tori Spelling
I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy. -- Nicole Polizzi
I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything. -- Demi Lovato
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. -- Eric Hoffer
I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure. -- Susan Sarandon
It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any. -- Alice Greczyn
Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder? -- Corey Redekop
You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful. -- Scarlett Pomers
Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem. -- Demi Lovato
You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you. -- Rae Smith
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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. -- Janeane Garofalo
I was like 'No!' I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder. -- Huntley Fitzpatrick
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. -- Torrie Wilson

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