Jameela Jamil Quotes

So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I would only have salads. And then it got so crazy as to just eating like a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full.

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 was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.

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

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

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

I was low-key abusing myself. The idea of being skinny became something that was most appealing to me. Even if you watch 'The Real,' from season 1 to season 4, I was always 100 lbs. I started to really work hard to stay petite and to not gain weight and to stay sample size.

But if you are young and want to work in the fashion industry and are not naturally skinny - which most girls are not - then you are forced to be unhealthy.

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.

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.

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.

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

A misperception about anorexia is that you don't eat. Not true. Maybe you eat just 500 calories a day. It would be easy for me to say, 'Why didn't my parents notice?' But I didn't want them to. I made sure to eat half a sandwich around my parents.

Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

I'm tired of being congratulated for being thin because I can more easily fit into sample sizes from the runway.

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

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

I don't think just being skinny means necessarily anorexic.

Girls in L.A. don't eat anything! I'll say, 'You look hungry. I'm not kissing you till you're full because I'm afraid you're going to bite my lip.'

I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.

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

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

I was cast as the lead in a Warner Bros TV pilot and was immediately told I needed to lose weight. I got a bit weird about food for the first time in my life, and I thought, 'You know, this just isn't the life for me.'