“I kissed a woman. But no, I’ve never felt attraction. I would have no problem recognizing him. That kiss took place on a somewhat alcoholic evening.” Federica Pellegrini across the board, in a long interview to the Corriere della Seralove, relationships, patriarchy.
The former swimming champion, fresh from Dancing with the Stars where she came second, also recounted episodes of her childhood (such as when she wrote insults to the teachers on the doors of the school bathroom, “a madness, a prank, but I self-denounced ”) and also dedicated a passage to his political views: his father is right-wing (not a Christian Democrat “but also attentive to the ideas of the other party”) and she is “moderate right-wing”. “I feel strong female solidarity for Giorgia Meloni” but “we must do more for women”.
Federica Pellegrini, Magnini and Marin: “If it’s the woman who leaves she’s a bitch”
Pellegrini has always been a character in the world of gossip, which for her has intertwined swimming. The story with Filippo Magninithe one with Luca Marin. the relationship with Matteo Giuntahis coach since 2014, relationship revealed after retirement and with whom he had a daughter. Of Magnini he says: “Six important but very difficult years. He hurt me at the beginning, I hurt him at the end.” “He cheated on me, I found out twice. But I forgave him.”
Patriarchy and men
“The tragedy of Giulia Cecchettin struck me, it made me think about patriarchy and how often women are belittled. It happened to me too, when I chose to break up a relationship I had everyone against me. If I had been a man it would have been different.” It is precisely in this sense that she remembers the end of her relationship with Luca Marin and the famous argument at the 2011 World Cup in Shanghai. A story also told in her biography. “I reach Filippo’s room, but at the moment we hear a wild banging on the door. Luca told us: get out or I’ll kill you.”
Pellegrini underlines one thing, in relation to the patriarchy of society: “The whole team took the side – how strange – of the male. Even those who had seen how Luca had behaved towards me. But if the woman decides, she’s a bitch.”
Pellegrini and bulimia and panic attacks
At 16, after the Olympic silver, she moved to Milan and began to suffer from bulimia: “I was alone and my discomfort with my body resulted in this disorder. I could eat three packs of ham and four packs of crackers, or two kilos of ice cream. Then I vomited. Since then I have been working with a psychologist.” After the 2008 Olympic gold, there were also panic attacks, due to feeling like the favorite and having to live up to it.
There is a second child in the future. Pellegrini responds. “Matteo and I believe in brotherhood. But not now.”
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