Ballerina, 29, becomes the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire – after ditching her dancing and taking an ‘insane’ risk

But the road to riches for Lara followed years of ballet training at the notoriously cutthroat Bolshoi Theatre School in Joinville, Brazil, where teachers allegedly held lit cigarettes under her thigh to test her endurance. She described secondary school as 'the most intense years of her life'. Yet, despite the chaos, she excelled academically - winning gold at the Brazilian Astronomy Olympiad and bronze at the Santa Catarina Mathematics Olympiad - before spending nine months performing as a professional ballerina in Austria.

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