Cancer Scientist reveals secret life as Prostitute

[CougarKing]

:blotto: Reminds me of that US Navy Commander who did the same thing.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091116/world/entertainment_britain_books_sex_people

The employers of a 34-year-old scientist who wrote a racy best-selling book about being a prostitute on Monday defended her after she outed herself as the author "Belle de Jour".


Dr. Brooke Magnanti, who works for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, at the weekend revealed herself to be the woman behind the nom de plume -- which is the title of a famous 1960s French film starring Catherine Deneuve.


Magnanti, who lives in Bristol, revealed her true identity to The Sunday Times amid fears that a former boyfriend was about to blow the secret, and to lift the burden of living a double life.


Magnanti kept a weblog of her antics in 2003-2004, which were turned into a best-selling book, "The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl."


Her memoirs were adapted into a hit 16-episode television series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," which starred actress Billie Piper and was screened in countries around the world.

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[PMedMoe]

Magnanti went to London to find work while completing the thesis for her doctorate, but found her savings were vanishing rapidly. She joined an agency and began having sex for 300 pounds a session.

The doctor, who still continues the blog she started back then, wrote that "keeping up a double life" was "just too difficult to do long-term".

So she did it for a while to make ends meet and then quit.  Unlike so many others who keep saying "Just until I get some money saved up." and are still saying it many years later.  :

 

[Antoine]

In my case, I am not good looking enough for this kind of business. Thus I have decided to join the reserve meanwhile finishing my grad school.  ;D

 

[Jorkapp]

Magnanti went to London to find work while completing the thesis for her doctorate, but found her savings were vanishing rapidly. She joined an agency and began having sex for 300 pounds a session.

Gotta admit, that's a good chunk of change, and even with her PhD she stands little chance of making that kind of hourly rate again.

 

[Journeyman]

Dr. Brooke Magnanti, as seen in UK's Sunday Times OnLine


(personally, the photographer should have allowed time for her bra marks to fade, but that's just the artist in me  )