Ana Ortega ‘Fury’: “Breaking saved my life, because it helped me out of anorexia”

• The B-girl Ana Ortega is the fifth and last protagonist of the series of interviews that the Higher Council of Sports (CSD) is spreading this week on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

• In the interview, Ana Ortega ‘Furria’ recounts how sport helped him overcome a eating disorder and gave him tools to believe in himself. “I know my message is going to help many girls,” he says.

Madrid, March 7, 2025.- The B-girl Ana Ortega ‘fury’ is the fifth protagonist of the series of interviews that the Higher Council of Sports (CSD) is spreading throughout this week on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8.

Her testimony summarizes how sport can become an instrument for women’s empowerment, and that is that, in her case, breaking gave her tools to believe in herself.

“For me, it has always been an escape route. I always say that sport saved my life a little, because it gave me a lot of strength when I left the hospital,” says Ana Ortega, one of the five athletes who this Saturday will participate in the colloquium organized by the CSD to commemorate International Women’s Day.

She suffered “anorexia when she was young” and recalls that in the hospital they did not let her “dance or do any kind of exercise.”

“At that time, I was angry with life. It was a pretty complicated process, and my head was just thinking about dancing. It was my motivation and my illusion to be able to say: I am going to go out, I am going to train and I am going to be incredibly good,” says Ana Ortega ‘Furria’, one of the members of the national breaking team.

In addition to helping him leave “the critical process of anorexia” behind, the breaking has also given him confidence in himself. “When I’m competing, I have to trust what I’m doing because it’s my cover letter. I have to believe one hundred percent in what I train every day,” he abounds.

Her message, with which she hopes to be able to “help the new generations”, will have a big loudspeaker this Saturday, March 8, during the event that the CSD will be organising at its facilities to commemorate International Women’s Day.

Ana Ortega ‘Furia’ will be the protagonist of a colloquium with also athletes Aauri Bokesa, Eva Moral, María Vicente and Patricia García, in which they will talk about motherhood, eating disorders, body diversity, visibility and the need to have women referents in the world of sport, among other topics.

In addition, the national breaking team and the gymnast Alba Bautista will perform sports exhibitions.

Meanwhile, the Assistant Director-General of Women and Sport, Bárbara Butragueño, will expose the public policies that the CSD is deploying to favor the presence and visibility of women in sport and that are promoting an increase in the number of female licenses that, for the first time in Spain exceed one million, and encouraging a greater presence of women in management positions of sports federations.

CSD President José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes will close this first part of the day to underline the commitment of the Government of Spain to equality.

After the institutional event, Aauri Bokesa, Ana Ortega ‘Furia’, Eva Moral, María Vicente and Patricia García, together with other athletes, will offer the attendees the possibility of knowing their respective sports at different stations installed in the CAR of Madrid.

This activity, open to the general public, will close a day of claim on the role of women in sport that will begin at 11:45 hours and will take place in the sports pavilion located on the -2 floor of the CSD institutional building.

As an institution charged with promoting public sports policies, the CSD maintains a strong commitment to equality, either through the promotion of initiatives that promote women’s participation in sport, the visibility of women’s referents or support for specific programmes that promote real equality in the sports field.

• The series of interviews broadcast from Monday to Friday with María Vicente, Eva Moral, Patricia García, Aauri Bokesa and Ana Ortega are available on the YouTube channel and on the CSD social networks:

https://www.youtube.com/@CSD/videos