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Thin

Critically acclaimed for Girl Culture and Fast Forward, Lauren Greenfield continues her exploration of contemporary female culture with Thin, a groundbreaking book about eating disorders. Greenfield's photographs are paired with exten

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“I believe my eating disorder is going to be with me for the rest of my life. But I've seen people get over the disorder and that's what I hope for myself. I use it as an inspiration every day.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Food Relationship, Eating Disorder

“The day you find something that you want even more than to be thin is the day you're capable of recovery.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Food Relationship, eating, Eating Disorder

“A personal trainer asked me if I wanted to do a fitness competition and I said yes...One day I binged and said, 'I don't know what to do,' so he told me to throw up. I've been bulimic ever since.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Food Relationship, Food Relationships, eating

“If they want me to lose weight, I'll just say, 'No No I'm not going back. F.U.'”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Food Relationship, Eating Disorder, eating

“I'm scared and lonely. Part of me wants to give up my eating disorder. And then a big part, the strong part doesn't...It's got the best of me. I'm a losing battle. I'm like a slave.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Food Relationship, Eating Disorder, eating

“I want my self esteem back. I deserve a good life. I'm going to be somebody my daughters are proud of.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Relationship, Food Relationship, Eating Disorder

“Even if you take away eating disorders, being a girl is always going to be one of the hardest things.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Food Relationships, Eating Disorder, eating

“The crazy things about eating disorders is that it's so hard to understand unless you have one yourself....People say 'just eat.' I can't.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, Awareness, Food Relationships

“This is what I really want. It's the one thing I want so bad. I just want to be thin. If it takes dying to get there, so be it. At least I'll get there.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, eating, Health

“If I died there would be nothing good to say about me. The only thing I did was change my body.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, eating, Health

“Today I had lunch with my family.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, eating disorders, eating, Health

“The biggest deception is that they think, if I just lose this weight people would be my friend.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationship With Self, Eating Disorder

“I told my mom, 'I'm not perfect yet,' she told me the perfect anorexic is dead.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, eating disorders, Skinny

“I started modeling so I had to be thin...So I went to the bathroom to throw up just because I wanted to be smaller...Then the owner of the agency took me into her office and said I needed to lose 5lbs in my face.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, Learning To Love Yourself

“Between March and December I went from 220 to 120 pounds. After growing up in a household where I was constantly told I need to be a certain weight. When I started to actually see results, I went overboard.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Food Relationships, Eating Disorder

“I always thought I was fat. It wasn't until recently when I pulled out an old photo album that I was like, Oh my gosh. I really wasn't fat. I've had a distorted view of myself pretty much most of my life.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, Health, Fitness

“I just feel like since I was 10 my eating disorder kept me from life. I would love to be a wedding planner one day.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, eating, Health

“I don't feel the my life is in danger. It's a fight for my sanity more than anything. The eating disorder is making me sick, and I'm ready to give it up, but I have nothing else in my life right now.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, Awareness, Health

“I want to be happier and the only way to be happier is to be skinny.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, Awareness, eating, Health

“I want to be so skinny that no one can ever say anything to me again about my weight.”

— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com

Tagged: Eating Disorder, Awareness, Health