'Unapologetic': Tennis great Jelena Dokic stuns in bikini holiday snaps after shedding 20kg and halving her dress size
The 42-year-old former tennis champion and Channel Nine sports commentator took to Instagram on Sunday, sharing sun-soaked snaps from her time abroad, posing confidently in a bikini and a red linen dress by the ocean.
"Me, free and unapologetically myself," Dokic wrote.
"Be you. Be unapologetically you. You've got one life to live so live it free and be your unapologetic self.
"You can't go through life worrying about what everyone else is going to think-whether it's your body, your size, your hair, your clothes, what you have, what you believe or how you feel," she added.
The 2025 Gold Logie nominee was flooded with support from fans in the comments section.
"You are looking beautiful and at peace!! So much wisdom in those words," one wrote.
Another added: "Beautifully said" while a third commented: "Well said Jelena. Looking amazing and so happy."
The former World Number Four's post follows a recent social media upload in which she opened up about her dramatic transformation, sharing side-by-side photos of herself at size 20 and size 10, and reflecting on the constant public scrutiny she's faced at both ends of the scale.
"When I was a size 20 someone always complained and now that I am a size 10 someone is always complaining too," she wrote.
"It baffles me how there is always some troll, bully or unkind person out there that has to comment or put someone down."
She said that when she was larger, she was regularly insulted with slurs like "whale, cow and fat," and often asked what had "happened to her size".
"Now that I am a size 10, I have apparently jumped on the 'diet' culture whatever that means—it's now bad that I am healthier and lost some weight, and I have abandoned standing up for plus-size people," she said.
"Just goes to show, nothing will ever be good enough for people, and that's sad."
Her latest post continued on a similar thread, with Dokic reminding her followers not to let others' judgment weigh them down.
"You can't worry about other people's judgment and what they have to say, because someone will always have something to say," she wrote.
"Their judgment says everything about them… so be yourself.
"100 per cent unapologetically you. Live this life freely and authentically. Because you only have one life to live. Be you. Love, Jelena xoxo."
The post also comes just weeks after she went public with her new partner, Melbourne-based hospitality operations manager Yane Veselinov.
On July 14, she shared a sweet selfie of the pair with the caption: "You are my calm, safe, peaceful and happy place. So glad I found you."
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