Emma Forrest Quotes

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

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

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

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

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.

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

When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

I suffered from eating disorders when I was just a kid. I did not like me or the way I looked. But back then, you could not tell anyone.

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

Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

It's not good to put in a magazine what I weigh because it's too little. People freak out when they hear what I weigh. They think, 'Oh, you're too skinny.'

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.

I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.

Sadly, people assume that I am happy because I am so skinny.

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

The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.