As her new book “Keto Queen” comes out, Marion Bartoli looks back on her descent into hell experienced after her retirement and in particular the anorexia from which she suffered for several years.
Marion Bartoli is a fulfilled woman. Having become one of the emblematic voices of RMC, where she hosts Bartoli Time every Sunday in addition to regularly speaking at the Grandes Gueules du Sport, the former player is also the mother of little Kamylia, born from her union with Yahya Boumediene, former Belgian footballer. A rebirth for the one who went through a long ordeal after the end of her career.
Victim of a toxic companion, Marion Bartoli then falls into anorexia, determined “fit into a 36”
to respond to the perfidious remarks of the one who shares her life and constantly denigrates her on her figure. “In 2015, I began a draconian diet, she rewound in the columns of the Parisian. I restricted my food intake to the extreme to 400 calories per day. I developed problems without realizing it. »
“It was a shock”
“I was in total denial. This is the very principle of this disease. The brain sets up a defense mechanism to continue to restrict itself, she explained. We keep telling ourselves that everything is going very well. (…) At the time, my only concern was how I was going to hold on with a few salad leaves in my stomach. » Unable to
“touching electrical objects, putting up with shower water on your little one”Marion Bartoli “sleeps all the time” and has “always cold”.
But in 2016, the situation was such that she was excluded for “medical reasons” from the Wimbledon senior tournament. “My friend Philip (Brook, the boss of Wimbledon) calls me and says to me “I don’t want to let you play, you’re going to have a cardiac arrest on the court!” » It was a shock.. You can take everything away from me, but not tennis! I told myself that I had to stop killing myself. I was then hospitalized for three months,” she revealed.
It took a long time to return to normal life. “Once I managed to understand what had happened to me and was no longer ashamed of it, I confided in my book “Reborn” in 2019, she pointed out. It was a very long psychological journey, once I was hospitalized to regain a taste for life, to stop hurting myself, to tell myself that I was better than that. »
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