Marion Bartoli looks back on the terrible consequences of her anorexia

This Thursday, October 3, 2024, Marion Bartoli reveals herself in a book, called Keto Queenpublished by Thierry Souccar. On the occasion of this news, the former tennis player spoke to our colleagues at Parisian. And she returns to this virus that she contracted in India in 2015. In reality, Marion Bartoli suffers from anorexia. “I was in total denial. This is the very principle of this disease. The brain puts in place a defense mechanism to continue to restrict itself. We keep telling ourselves that everything is going very well,” she confides. So when she finds herself in front of journalists who notice that her body has changed, the sportswoman responds “automatically this virus story because I had a few days of fever during a trip to India”.

Marion Bartoli looks back on this eating disorder that ruined her life

In reality, she does suffer from this eating disorder: “This is obviously not what stopped me from eating for months. At the time, my only concern was how I was going to make it through the end of the day with a few salad leaves in my stomach”. And this illness will have very diverse repercussions on his life : “Today, when I look at photos from this period, I don’t recognize myself. I remember feeling cold all the time. I put on layers and layers of clothes. I couldn’t (…)