When the song was over, I collapsed onto the floor, out of breath and smiling. “Uh, no, thanks,” I said to my husband Ethan, removing his hand from my waist, “I feel gross.” It was Saturday afternoon, a time in the past when we would have made love, but I had just breastfed our son […]
You didn’t know you’d stare middle age in the face and carry its soggy weight for everyone. And yet, you don’t feel ugly or incapable. The first time you quit stripping in 2003, you shoved your pink spandex bikinis and black booty shorts into a garbage bag and brought them to a lesbian bar in […]
I strip for the women who hate their bodies. I strip for the women who think their thighs are too big, their asses too small, or their bellies too jiggly. I don’t look like her: Or her, either: I am actually the complete opposite of these women. I’m brown, I’m thick/heavy/curvy/voluptuous/fat, and any other word that […]
I want to celebrate my beauty and my body and my whole self as I am, not as I wish I were. When my memoir Stripping Down was published in 2012, I thought I would be done with needing to talk about my risqué younger life, which included stripping and nude modeling. I would be […]
