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.

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.

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.

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.

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

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.

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.

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

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.

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current.

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.

I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

I was essentially paid to perpetuate the myth that we are all, or should at least try to be, 17 and a size 2 forever.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

Just because you're a different size doesn't mean you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons all day long watching TV.

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

it not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.

Hope is a very thin diet.

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.

I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.

She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.