The Me Too Moment Is Ballet’s Chance For A Turning Point

The rush of joining the company was soon tempered when Martins and others on the artistic staff gave her frequent “fat talks,” as Fadeley and other dancers called them, which compelled her to turn to obsessive dieting and exercising. She become dangerously thin, even by ballerina standards. In teenage girls this can lead to osteopenia, a condition that weakens the bones, and soon Fadeley broke her foot. When she told Martins, standing in front of him on crutches, she said he seemed inconvenienced, and not at all concerned about her well-being.

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