Elena Maraga lost her job as a teacher over her OnlyFans. Now she says she’s ready to go back. According to Il Mattino, the 30-year-old former teacher has already received job offers, including from three nursery schools, and plans to weigh them.
“I miss the children”
Maraga made the announcement as a guest on the Italian TV show La volta buona. According to Leggo‘s Rossella Di Gilio, she told the show, “I want to go back to teaching. After a year and a half off, I’ve realized I miss the children.”
She was let go over sexy videos tied to her account on the adult platform, which stirred up controversy and called her role as a teacher into question. The new offers, Leggo reported, are ones she says she’ll take a hard look at.
Not just about the money
Maraga was open about why she joined OnlyFans in the first place. According to Corriere Adriatico, she said one reason was financial: she wanted to round out her income so she could afford a little more. But she said cash wasn’t the whole story.
“I wanted to show off my body, and I’m not ashamed to say I like it,” she said. “If I can make money from it, why not?”
The parents’ reaction hurt most
What stung, she said, was how quickly the families she worked with turned on her. Up until the day before her account was discovered, she said, parents saw her as “a wonderful teacher,” confided in her and respected her. After that, “everything flipped,” she said, per Corriere Adriatico.
So she used the TV spot to speak directly to the parents of future students. “To future moms, I want to say don’t worry,” she said, according to Leggo. “They should trust my professionalism as a teacher, without paying attention to what I’ve done, what I do and what I will do.”
That wording is worth noticing. She isn’t apologizing, and she isn’t promising to quit. She’s asking parents to judge her teaching on its own.
School, or TV?
Maraga isn’t locking herself into one path, either. Il Mattino reported that when she was asked whether she saw her future in a classroom or on television, she left both doors open. “I wouldn’t mind either one,” she said.
The takeaway
Maraga’s story fits a pattern we keep seeing, from Italy to Missouri substitute teacher Sheena Sittner: educators losing jobs over legal adult content they make on their own time. What’s different here is that, if Maraga is right, three nursery schools are willing to hire her anyway. If one of them follows through, it would be a real test of whether a teacher’s side income can stay separate from her work in the classroom.
Quotes translated from Italian.
Image: The red classroom at the “Cucciolo” nursery school in Fontevivo, Italy, by Vincenzo Mainardi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
