 I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling. |
| You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying. |
| 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. |
| My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling. |
| I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery. |
| The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job. |
| I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. |
| Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation. |
| Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol. |
| We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. |
| It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks. |
