Skinny VS Curvy

On dealing with an eating disorder at the beginning of her career:

‘I wanted to be so thin. That was my main thing. So I started not taking care of myself – not eating properly, not eating at all, diet pills, regurgitating, and all of these things that girls do.’

‘People don’t understand that being the hottest star or making the most money does not mean anything.

… says 33 year-old Brandy, here pictured at the Los Angeles premiere of Michael Jackson ‘THE IMMORTAL’ World Tour at Staples Center back in January.

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Reality TV star Coco, who is 135 pounds at 5’2”, recently told Sister 2 Sister Magazine that once, she tried everything to lose weight, including… bulimia (?).

‘When I was 18, the J. Lo butt was not in. To have a booty was not the thing. You were considered fat if you had a booty. I was being cast in stuff where you’ll see all these really beanpole-looking white girls with blond hair and big boobs. That’s what I wanted to be… I was pulled aside during a photo shoot and a director told me that I needed to lose weight; that I was getting fat.’
‘When I heard that I went into full craziness. I went and tried everything from diet pills to cleansing to everything you could possibly do to get rid of your butt. Bulimia. I tried that but I love my food too much.’

… said Coco.

The quotes of the day come from Portia de Rossi , who opened up to Oprah about her troubled past and her battle with anorexia – here come the details from DailyMail:

‘I definitely had some pretty amazing willpower to get down to 82 pounds.

‘And that’s what I was holding on to. I didn’t think about anything else.’

Portia says of her mindset at the time, ‘i would prefer to die than fail another diet.’

The former ‘Ally McBeal’ and ‘Arrested Development’ star says she lived on 300 calories a day and hid it from her castmates and friends.

She also would take up to 20 laxatives a day.

37 year-old Portia De Rossi (now Portia Lee James DeGeneres) is planning to launch a memoir called Unbearable Lightness this November – the actress opens up about her troubled past and life-long battle with anorexia and bulimia. Entertainment Weekly has the details:

Unbearable Lightness, de Rossi’s memoir of a lifetime of starving and bingeing and purging (as well as part of a lifetime hiding her sexuality), is at times so wrenching that it’s difficult to imagine how the author, now 37, has kept her misery hidden for so long. ”Since I was a twelve-year-old girl taking pictures in my front yard to submit to modeling agencies, I’d never known a day when my weight wasn’t the determining factor for my self-esteem,” she writes with weary honesty. At her most perilously anorexic, the publicly glamorous TV star weighed 82 pounds. Ten months later, in the depths of bulimic bingeing, she had doubled in size. As an autobiographer she reports this with a vivid eye for detail, particularly about foods devoured, foods refused, and the ways a woman can hide her self-destruction, particularly when posing under the searchlights of fame.

The blunt, pity-free matter-of-factness with which de Rossi shares secrets and lies about her eating disorders and her sexuality makes this forthright confessional story at once shocking and instructional, especially for younger women who may be secretly suffering on their own.

Nicole Richie looks beautiful in Marie Claire UK this month – and she talks about how the eating disorder rumors affected her:

‘I think when you see me in person, you see that I’m, like, five foot one – I’m a small person.

‘The only time it bothered me was when I was in a store trying on shoes and these girls came up to me – they were probably like 13 or 14 – and their mother came over, and she said, “Are you taking care of yourself, because my girls think that you’re not.” That was upsetting.’

‘I felt it was a little unfair to say someone has an eating disorder when they don’t’ she says. ‘It’s extremely insulting and irresponsible. An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease.’

What do you guys think about her statements?

See more pictures of Nicole in Marie Claire after the jump!

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