'I am still the same person': Jelena Dokic's powerful makeup-free social media post

Jelena Dokic shared a powerful post with fans on social media on Thursday.

The tennis player-turned-TV presenter shared a makeup-free selfie showing her "bare" self and being comfortable in her own skin.

"I am not afraid of showing my makeup free, casual clothes and hair in a bun," the 41-year-old wrote in the lengthy caption.

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Sharing two side-by-side photos, taken on the same day but a few hours apart, the commentator mused "what's different?"

"Same day, same person," she wrote.

"The clothes can change, the makeup can change, the hair can change. But I am still the same person. I am still me."

Dokic said she believes "ultimately what matters is what is on the inside. What matters is what you bring to the room" before listing off a range of personality traits to be proud of.

"Everything else comes and goes," she said.

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"And so do clothes and makeup. It comes off and washes off and what matters is what stays when you are bare.

"Real beauty is bare beauty and who you are without the clothes, makeup, hair product and jewellery."

The honest post garnered thousands of likes and hundreds of comments within hours.

Dokic, who is now a regular on the speaker's circuit, has been open about her own struggles in the past.

She's also shared her journey to self acceptance with fans on social media over the years, with some quoting her latest post, labelling it "inspiring".

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It's something that gets the former world No.4 emotional, telling 9honey in an interview earlier this year she hopes it will become her legacy.

"It makes me even emotional now, because it's where I was," she told 9honey, with a quiver in her usually confident voice.

"To believe that people look at me that way and that they get inspired by me ... it's quite unbelievable, but I will strive to do that for the rest of my life.

"That's what I want my legacy to be."

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The former tennis pro has released two biographies and more recently the documentary Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story - all of which detail brutal abuse inflicted on her by her father, years she spent in the grips of mental illness, and her pivotal decision to seek professional help and start her healing journey.

"I want to stand for kindness and compassion and empathy in everything I do," she told 9honey.

"If I can just touch one person's life in some way and change it, then one day when this journey comes to an end, I will die a very happy person."

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