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Tennis. "These enormous guys, asking me if I could be in better shape; look at yourself in the mirror, don't be so brutal" - When Monica Seles spoke about being deemed overweight on her return...
But often Monica Seles was picked on for her fluctuating weight. Now the 41-year-old athlete is revealing her struggle with binge eating in a new public service announcement.
When I knocked Steffi out of the number one position, his obsession cranked up and, according to a psychiatric evaluation, he was determined 'to teach Monica Seles a lesson'. He stated that I...
Turning pro in 1989 at the age of just 15, Monica Seles was arguably the most intense teenage tennis player the world had ever seen. But in her later years, especially after her tragic stabbing...
Monica Seles made her emotional return to Grand Slam tennis at the 1995 US Open, playing in her first major tournament in almost three years after being stabbed in the back at a tournament in Germany in 1993.
In her book, “Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self,” Monica reveals that during her time away from tennis, she gained 20 pounds owing to her the binge eating disorder. Shortly after her recovery, her father passed away of cancer. Monica fell deeper into darkness, and gained another 17 pounds as she found comfort only in food.
Monica Seles proved unstoppable at the US Open, going back-to-back in Flushing Meadows with trophy-clinching victories over Martina Navratilova and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.
