I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.
Food is not your best friend or enemy.
I had really bad polyps on my vocal cords, and I've had them since I was a kid, but the bulimia made it 10 times worse. They were bleeding constantly, and it was straining on my voice. And just the lack of nutrition - my vocal cords couldn't keep up because I was so unhealthy.
There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.
I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
If I am anorexic, I'd be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.
I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.
I didn't choose to get anorexia. I may have made some childhood-like choices to try to control something. 'I know what I'll do: I'll just not eat.' That was the initial point, but then it spiraled and became a disease - not a choice by any means.
I wolf food down like you've never seen. For some reason, I have no self-control when it comes to the pace of eating.
When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.
I eat next to nothing.
I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.
On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: "I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.
I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?
Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.
I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.
If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.
My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.
I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
Sometimes I worry more about losing weight than gaining weight, because this is how people know and accept me.
Freak diets I don't think work. It's control.
The stick-thin thing, I'm kind of just like, 'Not gonna do it' and 'I couldn't.'
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 actually eat a lot.
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
