The best day of Jelena Dokic’s life came when her first book Unbreakable was published in 2017. “It changed my life,” she explains to WHO. “My healing started and me living – not just existing – started with Unbreakable. There was no more secrecy, there was no more hiding, all of it was out in the world. All this weight was lifted off my shoulders and that’s the power of sharing our stories.”
The stories that Dokic, the former world No. 4 tennis star, told in that memoir were horrifying. She revealed years and years of ongoing physical and mental abuse at the hands of her father, Damir. He beat her until she lost consciousness, kicked her, starved her and ultimately left her battling depression and suicidal thoughts.
But there was more to tell. Teaming up again with journalist Jessica Halloran, Dokic has written In it she details, for the first time, her disordered eating, which she traces back
