THEME

I’m convinced I am taking up too much space, eating too much, wanting food too much. I’ve often felt that I was too much emotion, too much need, too loud and demanding, too much there, if you know what I mean.

~ The slender body

The anorexic is terrified and repelled by a certain image of the female: as hungering, voracious, all-needing, and all-wanting. It is this image that shapes and permeates her experience of her own hunger for food as insatiable and out of control, that makes her feel that if she takes just one bite, she will not be able to stop.

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The slender body

fleshcanoes:

out of my body out of my mind

I hated myself so much I tried to starve all the badness inside me. But then I felt overwhelmed by the selfishness of this action.

~ Emma

Tracey Emin

The frightened child melted into the carpet, caught up in the fibres, she sank deep down. The frightened child and then competent woman shared the same body but not the same feelings. I was so scared and torn inside, sometimes I gave up hope of ever getting better.

~ Emma

bienenkiste:

Camille Rowe by Daniel King for Lula F/W 2011