Ksenija Bujisic on anorexia: I ate once every few days

Ksenija Bujisic, a Serbian television host and editor, is back in the entertainment pages over her account of living with anorexia. Serbian news sites put her words back into circulation on July 31, 2026. Her lowest weight was 37 kilograms. She now says she is at 45.

The account itself is not new. The quotes being passed around now come from an earlier television interview, and the same lines were circulating in Serbian media as far back as April 2022. The one figure that has changed since those first tellings is the number on the scale: in interviews published in April 2025, she says she weighs 45 kilograms.

Eating once every few days

Bujisic described a body that stopped asking for food. This was not a diet that got out of hand, but a disorder that fed on itself.

Jela sam jednom u par dana, samim tim organizam gubi potrebu za hranom i nisam imala apetit.

Translated, she said she ate once every few days, which left her body without any need for food and without appetite. The physical consequences repeated themselves. She spoke about blacking out, and about the short stretch of caution that followed each episode.

Padala sam u nesvest i svaki put kad se to desi ja narednih par dana povedem računa.

She also described the line between being thin and being ill as a fine one, hard to see from the inside. That part of the story is usually the first to get cut when the quotes are recycled, even though it explains how she reached her lowest point at all.

Tanka je linija kada iz te neke normalne mršavosti skliznete u bolest.

What turned it around?

The turn came as a number on a scale. When it finally read 40 kilograms, Bujisic posted about it on Instagram and handed the credit to her family rather than to a diet or a gym.

Posle dužeg vremena vaga je pokazala 40 kilograma. Dokaz da je babina kuhinja i dedina upornost rešenje za sve.

The post said the scale had shown 40 kilograms after a long time, and called her grandmother’s cooking and her grandfather’s persistence the answer to everything. The same post carried the line that has travelled furthest since: “Anoreksijo, pokušaj neki drugi put, jer ova runda je moja”, meaning anorexia should try again some other time, because this round was hers.

Three kilograms separate 37 from 40. She named that exact point as the moment the illness began to loosen its grip. In the version of the story that circulates, there is no mention of doctors or a treatment programme, only home cooking and family stubbornness.

A recovery measured in years

Bujisic does not present her way out of anorexia as a decision taken in a single day.

Jako je teško iščupati se iz bilo kog oboljenja, a kamoli iz tog koji je u vezi sa psihom

Pulling yourself out of any illness is hard, she said, let alone one tied to the mind. These days she talks about her build calmly, without feeling the need to defend it.

Priroda, genetika i Bog su mi dali privilegiju da sam ‘mršavica’ bez mnogo napora i truda.

Nature, genetics and God, she said, gave her the privilege of being slim without much effort.

The confession that keeps coming back

What usually goes missing in the retelling is the date. The quotes about 37 kilograms and about fainting are at least four years old, and so is the Instagram post about 40 kilograms. A reader who sees the headline in July 2026 can easily assume she weighs 37 kilograms today and that the illness is happening right now.

Laid out in order, the timeline is far clearer:

• 37 kilograms, her lowest weight during the illness
• 40 kilograms, the figure she posted on Instagram as the turning point
• 45 kilograms, the weight she gives in later interviews

The account still serves a purpose, but only when it is read with those dates attached. Without them it reads as a crisis in progress, when what it actually describes is a recovery that has taken years, and that distinction is one every public story about an eating disorder deserves to carry with it.