Ballerina Fired For Speaking Out About Anorexia Talks About Her First Year Back On The Job

In 2011, Mariafrancesca Garritano (pen name Mary Garret) spoke out and eventually wrote about the anorexia she developed after being fat-shaming by instructors at La Scala's ballet school - and the company fired her and charged her with libel. Last year Italy's highest court ruled that she had been unfairly dismissed and should get her job back. Here she talks about her return to the company and the effects of four years away from ballet.

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