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Mental health: “Athletes do not have the right to have mental problems”, laments ex-tennis player Marion Bartoli
Mental health: “Athletes do not have the right to have mental problems”, deplores ex-tennis player Marion Bartoli
(franceinfo)
After a career at the top and a title at Wimbledon in 2013, the former tennis player and now journalist, Marion Bartoli, returns in her book “Keto Queen” to her period of anorexia. A story that she comments on in “18/20” on Friday October 4.
Former tennis player Marion Bartoli is one of the rare French women to have won a Grand Slam title during her career, at Wimbledon in 2013. Having become host of “Bartoli Time”, every Sunday on RMC, she publishes Keto Queen: Health regaineda personal book about his relationship with food. “Throughout my playing career, I had problems with my diet, particularly with controlling my figure and keeping a healthy weight”she confides in the “18h/20h” of Friday October 4.
And to approach his “anorexia”with “a dramatic weight loss”after leaving tennis. “A very important psychological test to manage”born from a toxic relationship with an ex-partner, she confides. An episode that pushed her to take “40 kilos in nine months”.
Today, Marion Bartoli welcomes the speeches of athletes like Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles on mental health, made a major national cause by Prime Minister Michel Barnier. The ex-athlete deplores the treatment “extremely harmful” what do some athletes’ newspapers do, “who are not allowed to have mental problems”.
Watch the full interview in the video above