Tag — Monica Seles

The ex-Wimbledon champion, Monica Seles, admits she suffered a nine-year battle with binge-eating.  In her new book, Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self, she discusses her career as a professional tennis player and her fight with food addiction.  She said she gorged on food to cope with being stabbed in the back while on the court back in 1993 and then also because of the death of her father/coach.  The 35-year-old tennis champ wrote,

“Food became my best friend. I was lonely and I would just eat. It was my coping mechanism. Food was how I dealt with stress.”

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