"What I believe in and what I keep striving to do is to help girls believe in themselves," the 39-time Grand Slam champion tells PEOPLE as a member of Dove's Body Confident Collective ...

Billie Jean King won six Wimbledon singles championships ... "In the '70s we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes," she said. "We had to make it OK for ...

2. She says girls are brought up to be perfect and boys are brought up to be brave Billie Jean says, as a girl, she became furious that she wasn’t allowed to play American football.

As Shenzhen is named as the location for this year’s Billie Jean King Cup, the tennis star at the helm of the tournament ...

Dove is proving their commitment to championing girls’ body confidence in sports ... their Body Confident Sports program, including Billie Jean King. ByCelia Shatzman, Senior Contributor.

Outside the lines is where the dialogue around Billie Jean King usually plays out. And why not? After all, the case can be made that no single athlete has accomplished more beyond the playing field.

Billie Jean King won a dozen Grand Slam singles titles ... "In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes," she said. "We had to make it okay ...