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Net Worth.(Monica Seles conquers weight problem)

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On court Monica Seles was all but unbeatable; off court she was losing a battle with her weight. Now the tennis great tells Rebecca Johnson how she finally stopped obsessing.

It is bad enough to be a young woman struggling with your weight. Now imagine the eyes of the world on you as you do it. And oh, yes, the whole time they're watching, you're wearing a short white skirt that barely covers your bum.

Yugoslavian-born tennis phenomenon Monica Seles won eight Grand Slam titles before she turned 20, but what sticks in her mind about that time are the insults heaped on her by the press. "'Big as Blimp,' 'Fatso,'" she reels them off from her home in ...

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