The wrath of Paola, Elly Schlein’s partner, against those stolen photos

“An unjust act is called outing. I was overwhelmed by it, but fortunately not annihilated”. She writes it on social media Paola Belloni, Elly Schlein’s partner. Two weeks after the publication on Diva e Donna, the Cairo group’s gossip weekly, of the stolen photos that portrayed her next to the new secretary of the Democratic Party, Belloni decided to intervene. A long post, on her Instagram page. It begins with a quote from her partner: “They didn’t see me coming so they pulled out the telephoto lenses.”

Addressing the authors of the gossip service directly (mentioned via schwa: «car* journalist* of Diva and Donna»), Belloni explains that «communicating a person’s emotional intimacy in the press is an unjust act and is called outing. I was overwhelmed by it, but fortunately not annihilated, because I have a network of friends and family that supports me. I just wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t had this network». Lucid, meditated, rational outburst.

Paola Belloni chooses social media to loudly claim the right to privacy. A following certainly not from an influencer, but from a normal and selective person: less than two hundred followers and less than two hundred followed profiles (Schlein figures in both categories). The images are then counted on the fingers of a hand, four to be precise. Sardinian, 28 years old, Schlein’s partner is described by her friends as an ultra-reserved person who cares about privacy even more than the tenant of the Nazarene, who had never mentioned her until now.