Jerry Hall Quotes

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

I think it would be fair to say that most female dancers have dealt with, whether it's an extreme, or minor complex in eating disorders. So the first thing I would say to girls who are feeling that way is you're not alone. You're far from alone. You're the majority. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what you're feeling.

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.

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

People tell me that I should eat more, but they don't know me: I eat a lot. It's pretty unpleasant that people assume every model is anorexic and bulimic.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.

I'm really tired, incredibly tired of hearing people say that fashion is behind anorexia.

That always stuck with me. When I finished school in 2015, I started going to open calls in New York. But I was getting the same response every time: 'Get your measurements down. Take X inches off your thighs and hips.'

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.

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

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you - they make you perfect. It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick.

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 had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

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

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?