- 【資料】Secret life as prostitute
an erotic blogger whose double life as a prostitute became a hit tv series has ended years of fevered speculation by revealing her most intimate secret -- her true identity.
brooke magnanti, a cancer specialist at a university in western england, unmasked herself in a british newspaper as the woman behind belle de jour, the salacious online diary of a high class call girl.
it feels so much better on this side. not to have to tell lies, hide things from the people i care about, the 34-year-old wrote on her blog after the sunday times published its interview with her.
magnanti's frank and sometimes funny accounts of working as a call girl earned her a huge following, a lucrative book deal and legions of critics who variously accused her of glamorizing the sex industry, making it up -- and of being a man.
the 34-year-old said she became a call girl in 2003 to support herself in london while completing her doctoral thesis after realizing she had no qualms about being paid for sex.
she contacted an agency, working as a prostitute until late 2004, describing it as so much more enjoyable than an earlier job as a computer programmer.
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- Hatoyama kicks off the year with scandal apology
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