Jeannie Mai Quotes

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.'

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

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.

I never starved myself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You just don't eat until you feel like you're gonna throw up at every meal and all of a sudden the weight falls right off.

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

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

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.

A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

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.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

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