Portia de Rossi

"I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating."

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Source: Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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Portia de Rossi

Portia de Rossi

Actress

Portia de Rossi is an Australian-American actress and advocate known for her roles in 'Ally McBeal' and 'Arrested Development', as well as her activism for LGBTQ+ rights.

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