Alice Greczyn

It seems everyone wants to know if I have an eating disorder, and playing an anorexic character on 'Make it or Break It' probably didn't help much. To set the record straight, I certainly do not have an eating disorder. I think as anyone can gather, I love food, and it is not just a front to cover up the fact that I don't eat any.

American Actress

Alber Elbaz

We are being accused that some models are anorexic. But we as fashion designers cannot be blamed, because you know, when I talk to women around the world, rich and poor and young and old and intellectual and not, what they want to be is skinny. You ask them, 'What is your dream?' It's to be skinny. That's all they want.

Israeli Designer

Chantal Akerman

My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.

Belgian Director

Rachel Cusk

The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

Canadian Novelist

Richard Flanagan

I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.

Australian Novelist

Kate Moss

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

English Model

Evan Rachel Wood

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

Fiona Apple

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

American Musician

Carmen Kass

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

Estonian Model

Cameron Russell

American Model

Use 'anorexic' to describe someone clinically diagnosed, not just skinny.

Medical Condition

Understand anorexia as a disorder, not a lifestyle or diet choice.

Not a Choice

Use the term with sensitivity; it refers to a serious health issue.

Sensitive Context

Prefer 'person with anorexia' to avoid defining someone by their illness.

Person First

An 'anorexic' may be undergoing treatment, not always refusing food.

Recovery Journey

Use it for anorexia nervosa only, not for general or temporary lack of appetite.

Specific Illness

Avoid using 'anorexic' to describe thin objects or people not diagnosed.

Inappropriate Use

'Anorexic' is not a compliment or fashion term; it refers to a health issue.

Not Complimentary

Using 'anorexic' can have strong emotional impact due to its negative connotations.

Emotional Weight

 But when the small group is teenage girls who want to stay anorexic by choice, then we're horrified. What's happened is that the normative goals of the support groups that we're used to, came from the institutions that were framing them, and not from the infrastructure.