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“I required a lot of comfort and found plenty of it in pints of ice cream and greasy bags of chips,” Seles, 41, writes in Getting a Grip. Here, the cover of the New York Daily News. Seles’ 1993 on-court stabbing made headlines worldwide. “Binge eating disorder would be that you do this all the time, you do it privately, and you are embarrassed and ashamed of yourself after you do it.” “Everybody can have a bad day and take that pint of Ben and Jerry’s and put a spoon to it, but that doesn’t mean you have binge eating disorder,” says Lynn Grefe, president and CEO of the National Eating Disorders Association. “Binge eating is more of eating an unusually large amount of food that other people would probably consider large in that same context, and you feel like you’re out of control and can’t stop.” People with binge eating disorder also tend to feel guilty or disgusted after binges, she adds. “We all tend to overeat at times,” she says.

Secretive eating, for example, is very common among those with binge eating disorder, says Jennifer Shapiro, PhD, a San Diego-based eating disorder specialist and licensed clinical psychologist. The tennis star’s experiences echo those experienced by many people with eating disorders, experts tell Yahoo Health. “I look at my life and how many years I wasted being shamed about it, hiding it from my family and friends and doing my binges in private.” “I wanted to let people out there who struggle from binge eating disorder know they’re not alone,” she said in the interview with Spencer. Monica Seles is the face of a new public service campaign about binge eating disorder, which affects an estimated 2.8 million Americans.