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In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder. -- Joyce Giraud
You don't have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful. -- Scarlett Pomers
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up. -- Kirstie Alley
The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like. -- Scarlett Pomers
Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people. -- Carre Otis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices. -- Demi Lovato
Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders. -- Byron Katie
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. -- Marya Hornbacher
Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress. -- Aimee Liu
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. -- BrenÃ© Brown
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief. -- BrenÃ© Brown
During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders. -- Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill
There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries. -- Sanna Lenken
When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions. Read more at: https://tr.im/4ZtN7 -- Paula Patton
Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman. -- Jessie Kahnweiler
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
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. -- Susan Bordo
The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted. -- Sanna Lenken
Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully. -- Ariana Grande
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin. -- Mary Pipher
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior. -- Peggy Orenstein
I want them [people] to feel open and comfortable to share the messy, dirty, shameful parts of themselves. Those are the parts I wanna see. And that eating disorders aren't just about "being thin." -- Jessie Kahnweiler
I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying. -- Marya Hornbacher

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