Jelena Dokic opens up about experiencing family violence as a child and during her tennis career.
Warning: This article contains discussions and descriptions of family violence that some people might find confronting.
She wanted to have a family and she was not going to let it fall apart. She always wanted to keep it together, no matter what the cost was.When he would see my father being abusive towards me he would step in aggressively and go up against him.Then, when I was eight years old, we fled Yugoslavia, and I never saw him again. He was killed in the war a year later.I think the fact we were refugees, he really didn't adjust, and he didn't like that he couldn't speak the language.
It was really hard, and I would take anything in this world — anything — just for that not to have happened. And this was not even about tennis anymore or what I was going to do professionally; this was now about whether I was actually ever going to be able to live a normal life again and survive.I started turning to food, because I did not feel safe with anything or anyone.I'd starve myself, at times, for three or four days, then I would binge again.My body size and shape changed, but it was more concerning the fact I emotionally had so much comfort in food.
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