Food became coping mechanism to deal with stress: Seles.Byline: ANI London, Apr 13 (ANI): Former World No.1 tennis star Monica Seles has said that food became her best friend to overcome loneliness after her father's death in 1998. Seles spoke for the first time about her nine-year battle with an eating disorder eat·ing disorder n. Any of several patterns of severely disturbed eating behavior, especially anorexia nervosa and bulimia, seen mainly in female teenagers and young women. , The Sun reported. Seles, 35, said she started binge eating Binge eating A pattern of eating marked by episodes of rapid consumption of large amounts of food; usually food that is high in calories. Mentioned in: Anorexia Nervosa after being knifed in the shoulder by a Steffi Graf Noun 1. Steffi Graf - German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969) Graf, Stephanie Graf fan during a 1993 match and turned to food to cope with her father's death in 1998. Yugoslavia-born Seles said: "Food became my best friend. I was lonely and I would just eat. It was my coping mechanism coping mechanism Psychiatry Any conscious or unconscious mechanism of adjusting to environmental stress without altering personal goals or purposes . Food was how I dealt with stress." Her weight battles weren't helped as she compared herself to slim Russian Anna Kournikova. But she realised she was cured after starring on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing last year. Seles said being criticised by the judges' upset her, but this time she didn't gorge on food. "I cried, but I did not go back to my old habits," Seles said Seles also wrote a book "Getting a Grip" to help women beat food addiction. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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