In this text, I suggest that people suffering from anorexia nervosa inflict a particular form of epistemic violence on themselves when they willfully ignore the symptoms of their illness. To do this, in an approach inspired by that of Havi Carel, I first present the special relationship that individuals suffering from anorexia nervosa have with their body borrowed from Susan Bordo’s three axes of analysis, namely Mind/Body dualism, the ideals of control and autonomy, and gender relations. I then propose the concept of self-inflicted epistemic violence by showing that the purpose of wilful ignorance of hunger is to preserve the identity of people living with this disease as being in control and autonomous ; in other words, as not being “ill”.