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Belle de Jour drops her anonymity
BBC News - 15 November 2009

A former prostitute whose memoirs were turned into the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, starring Billie Piper, has revealed her true identity.

Dr Brooke Magnanti wrote under the pen name Belle de Jour to describe the encounters she had as a high-class call girl while earning money for her PhD. The 34-year-old said she decided to unmask herself because the stress of the deceit was making her paranoid.

[...]Dr Magnanti, who now lives in Bristol and is a research scientist for The Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health, became a prostitute because she needed a job that left her enough time to complete her studies. She kept her double life a secret even when she started the blog describing her experiences and the books which followed.

Dr Magnanti told the Sunday Times she worked as a prostitute from 2003 to late 2004, and found it "so much more enjoyable" than her shifts in another job as a computer programmer. She told the newspaper "I don't want this massive secret over me any more," and that she feared an ex-boyfriend might reveal the true identity of Belle de Jour.

Sunday's entry on the blog said: "It feels so much better on this side. Not to have to tell lies, hide things from the people I care about. To be able to defend what my experience of sex work is like to all the sceptics and doubters. (Quoted from article) Read more...
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Related:
Belle de Jour - Blog
Belle de Jour - Wikipedia
'Hospital stands by research scientist unmasked as Belle de Jour' - Times Online, 16 November