Olly Alexander Quotes

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 compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

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

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

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 realized that I had an eating disorder in which I controlled myself to a point that I would not let myself enjoy what I wanted to eat or eat what I needed to eat, all to stay a certain size.

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.

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

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

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.

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

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I was 17 when my body started changing, and I worried about what I did wrong. I went through a period where I didn't eat at all. I also had someone who was encouraging me to take diet pills. I pushed myself to the extreme because I woke up one day and had hips - and a butt - and thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm getting fat!'

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

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

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.

I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.

I never starved myself.