Marya Hornbacher Quotes

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

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

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.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

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.

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

I've battled food issues since my late teens.

I have had struggles with some eating disorders, just eating issues.

I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.

Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.

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.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well. It's just heartbreaking. As someone going through it, it's heartbreaking. And as a friend who's helping a friend going through it, it's heartbreaking. It's a real, real disease.

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.

Eating disorders are A) not fun at parties, and B) they're not very fun in movies.

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 was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.

I used to starve myself to death.

For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

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.