We often forget that professional athletes struggle with weight and body image. Caroline Garcia told L’Equipe that she indulged in food to emotionally compensate for losses on the tennis court, to the point that she developed an eating disorder.
The last couple of years in Garcia’s life had been marked by “tears and sleepless nights” and even bulimia:
You feel so empty, so sad, that you need to fill yourself. It came from the distress of not managing to do what I wanted to do on court, of not winning anymore, of suffering physically.