“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
“The biggest deception is that they think, if I just lose this weight people would be my friend.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“I told my mom, 'I'm not perfect yet,' she told me the perfect anorexic is dead.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I want to be happier and the only way to be happier is to be skinny.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“I want to be so skinny that no one can ever say anything to me again about my weight.”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com
“I can't believe I weighed 82 pounds. That's way too fucking much...I am quite possibly a fat cow. Why can't I stop eating? I feel so out of control!!!”— Lauren Greenfield, amazon.com