Amanda Schull Quotes

I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been able to write back to a few of them, but I've been able to write and have correspondence with a few of them and really talk about what I think they should do or if I think they should ask for help.

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.

For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

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

Yes, you should be healthy and take care of yourself, but growing up, I've seen people who have horrible issues with food.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.

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

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.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

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.

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

I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.

There are so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity, and I feel like I have a direct reach to some of those people.

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.