Buenos Aires – Former Italian porn star and legislator Ilona Staller, better known as Cicciolina, fractured a rib while rehearsing for the Argentine version of Dancing With the Stars, but she decided to keep dancing, Argentine media reported Tuesday.

Cicciolina has been nominated to leave the show Tuesday night, given the low score she and her partner got with a disco music choreography, but in an interview with the Argentine daily Clarin, she stressed she does not want to leave so early into the programme, even with her fractured rib.

She explained that her first performance was just a few days after she arrived in Argentina, and she was tired and with only a few hours of rehearsals.

“Although I danced in my shows, this demands a higher level,” Cicciolina said.

“I know I am not going to win, but it is an experience that gives me joy, that allows me to be again in contact with the Argentine audience, which has always been warm with me,” she noted.

Cicciolina, 56, said she thinks of herself as a “gipsy artist, an artist of the world.” That is why she accepted to perform in the Argentine programme, of which she said “it is as good as the Italian” version of the show.

Cicciolina, who served in the Italian Parliament for some times, further claimed that she would like to have an Argentine husband.

“I am waiting for the Argentine Cicciolino. The perfect man. Sweet, not violent, friend, brother. I don’t care about the money,” the exuberant woman said.

She noted that all her sexual fantasies have come true, but stressed that her time as a porn star is over.

“It was a stage in my life that is over. Since my son was born I am no longer interested in pornography. I would never do it again. I can swear that,” Cicciolina said.