Joanna Krupa Quotes

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.

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.

I used to starve myself to death.

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

In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well. It's just heartbreaking. As someone going through it, it's heartbreaking. And as a friend who's helping a friend going through it, it's heartbreaking. It's a real, real disease.

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

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

I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.

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.'

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

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 never starved myself.

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

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

When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It's like a religion where everything is sinful, and there is a heaven at the end where you are thin and don't need energy anymore.

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

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

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.