Honeysuckle Weeks Quotes

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

If I step on a scale, I won't eat for five months.

If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.

I am very skinny.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

I never starved myself.

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

For several years I had no idea that I had become anorexic. And I'd be at places with people I cared about, but what I was thinking about was how much extra grease was on the pizza or the calories that I knew was in that shake.

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

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 was sooo skinny.

I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.

When I see images of a girl who is obviously far too thin, I am just as shocked as anyone else.

There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.

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 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.

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

I've always been pathologically skinny.

I get skinnier if I'm very busy.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

I eat next to nothing.