Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self Hardcover - 2009
by Monica Seles
For those of you tuned into this past season's Dancingwith the Stars, it's hard to believe that spectacularly fitformer tennis champion Monica Seles struggled withbinge-eating and depression.
Getting a Grip chronicles Monica's success on the tennis circuitwhere, at age sixteen, she became the youngest winner inFrench Open history. For three years she dominated the tour,racking up eight Grand Slam titles, and charming the media atpost-match conferences with her trademark giggle. She seemedunstoppable until a deranged Steffi Graf fan plunged a knife intoher back during a match in Hamburg and turned her life upsidedown. Her injuries healed but the emotional trauma was deep.With no support from the WTA and her number-one rankingfalling, Monica sunk into a depression. Hiding from the mediaand disappearing from the tennis world, she turned to food forcomfort. She spent more than two years in seclusion, trying tofight off the fog of despair.
Back in the public eye but far from recovered, she continuedthe battle against herself grueling six-hour workouts weresabotaged by secretive late-night binges and she was assaultedwith criticism about her weight from her trainers, nutritionists,and, most brutally, the press. Playing with an extrathirty pounds and devastated after losing her father/coach tocancer, she was never able to regain her former dominanceon tour.
After an excruciating injury forced her to take time off fromtennis in 2003, Seles embarked on her own journey. She abandonedthe arduous workouts and the punitive diets. As sheuncovered the painful emotional reasons that had been the triggerfor her binge-eating, she finally found the peace and balanceshe had been searching for.
Monica Seles's determination, amazing talent, and touchingvulnerability make her story both incredibly human andinspiring. By sharing her own narrative, she hopes to motivateother people to take control of their lives and their own happiness.
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- Title Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self
- Author Monica Seles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 290
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Avery Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2009-04-21
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781583333303 / 1583333304
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.12 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.84 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Seles, Monica, Women tennis players - Yugoslavia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008055033
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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