Eating disorders affect a large part of the population both in Croatia and throughout the world. Symptoms of eating disorders can vary on an individual and diagnostic level. We can differentiate between the diagnoses of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified and unspecified eating disorders. They most often occur in early adolescent girls, but the severity of symptoms can also develop during late adolescence and young adulthood. In addition to gender and age, risk factors that are often mentioned are: the social environment, family dynamics, perfectionism, self-esteem, maladaptive coping with stress, etc. One of the most researched correlates with eating disorder symptoms that demonstrates a consistent positive correlation is perfectionism. In recent studies, self-compassion has begun to be researched in the context of protective factors for eating disorders. Self-compassion is a relatively new construct in the literature that has shown a significant role in an individual's psychological well-being. The aim of this paper was to investigate the role that self-compassion plays in the previously established relationship between perfectionism and eating disorder symptoms. Results that were obtained confirm the positive correlation of perfectionism and the negative correlation of self-compassion with the occurrence of eating disorder symptoms. A negative correlation was also confirmed between perfectionism and self-compassion. In addition to the above, both predictors were significant in the independent model, and the complete mediation of self-compassion in the relationship between perfectionism and eating disorders was confirmed. Such results create a good basis for future research and development of psychological interventions.