Daily Inspiration Quote by Portia de Rossi

Anorexia gets described as control, discipline, even vanity; Portia de Rossi drags it back to its bleakest, truest impulse: erasure. “I literally wanted to disappear” isn’t poetic exaggeration so much as a confession of the illness’s logic. The body becomes a problem to solve by subtraction, a way to shrink out of scrutiny, out of desire, out of expectations you never agreed to carry. For an actress, that pressure is industrial. Hollywood doesn’t just reward thinness; it turns women’s bodies into a public spreadsheet of worth, then calls it “camera-ready.”

The pivot to “now I would like to reappear” lands because it rejects the usual redemption script. She doesn’t say “I’m cured” or “I love myself.” She chooses a verb that’s almost theatrical. Reappear suggests agency: stepping back onto the stage after being absent from your own life. It also hints at how recovery is less about a single breakthrough than about re-entering the world in increments - taking up space, tolerating visibility, letting your physical presence be read without trying to edit it down.

There’s an elegant bite in the contrast between “literally” and “would like.” The first is stark inevitability, the second is desire returning. That’s the subtext that makes it work: the shift from compulsion to preference, from vanishing as a solution to existing as a choice. In a culture that still romanticizes “disappearing” bodies, she frames reappearing as the bravest kind of rebellion.