Portia de Rossi Quotes

So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full.

From the time I was thirteen, there was a constant struggle between MGM and me - whether or not to eat, how much to eat, what to eat. I remember this more vividly than anything else about my childhood.

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 was a food junkie.

I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.

I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater.

I never starved myself.

I'm a huge food addict.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

I had a very unhealthy relationship with food that turned into bulimia.

I've battled food issues since my late teens.

I genuinely have no eating problem. I eat so much food. I think there's a lot of girls who are similar to me.

I've had a love-hate 'relationship with food for most of my life.

I used to starve myself to death.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

I have a friend who actually told me that she'd rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she'll order a salad. If I order a salad, she'll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she'll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she's down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.

I wasn't strong enough to have an eating disorder. 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.'

My eating habits are the only behaviour of mine that are still manic. I can't walk by a restaurant, a bakery, an ice-cream store or a candy store without making a purchase; the amount of calories I take in today are at least five times as many as I took before starting on all of this medication.

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

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

I'm, like, a compulsive eater. I'm going to be so fat when I'm older, it's ridiculous.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.