Alber Elbaz Quotes

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

I was a fat kid. I can laugh now. But I got teased about being an Oompa Loompa and stuff like that.

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 had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

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've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

When you're overweight like I've been my whole life, you've been made fun of. And, uh, it's not good growing up.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

For me, my body image struggle started very young. All that I heard from my mother, my aunts, and my mom's friends was, 'I gotta lose five pounds.' At 5 years old, I learned a size 2 is not thin enough. It was, 'Don't eat carbs! Don't eat sugar! Drink Diet Coke! You always diet!' So that was engrained in my brain at a very early age.

Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me... and were just like, 'You know what? We're sick of this. Let's kill her.'

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

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

When I was in middle school and high school, I was over 100 pounds overweight.

I remember being at Weight Watchers at, like, 11 years old and my mom just trying to figure it out for me.

I was short and fat as a child.

When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

My childhood was so traumatic.

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

Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in 'Patrick Melrose.'

As a doctor, I was aware that when children go through severe trauma, they shouldn't see their parents completely disintegrate because subconsciously, that tells them they have no one to take care of them.

I was bullied mercilessly through school for my weight problem.

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.