Magnanti, who wrote "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," told the paper she turned to prostitution for more than a year while writing her Ph. While she reveled in her job and her nom de plume, she chafed at the anonymity of her story.
No jolly lunches to celebrate the book's success. I couldn't even go to my own launch party," she told the paper. According to her interview with the Sunday Times, Magnanti decided to give up her anonymity so she would not have to keep the " massive secret " any longer.
The interviewer also mentioned "an ex-boyfriend with a big mouth lurking in the background" who might have inspired her to beat others to the punch. But now that she is as famous as Belle du Jour, Magnanti is asking people to keep their distance from her new workplace, the Bristol Initiative for Research of Child Health where she is a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology.
She also took a moment on today's blog to answer what has apparently been a big question since her Sunday revelation: "Also, so much curiosity about my tax situation! Yes, I did pay taxes on sex work earnings. Magnanti told the newspaper that she first outed herself to her co-workers a month ago, who were "amazingly kind and supportive. Despite trepidations over telling her mother, Magnanti insists she is proud of her old profession and what she wrote about it. Her adventures began when she left Scotland for London where she would write her Ph.
I hadn't really thought that one through," she told the Sunday Times. Unable to find a professional job without a Ph. During her time as a sex worker, she said she slept with "somewhere between dozens and hundreds" of men. In the film, a bored housewife played by French icon Catherine Deneuve turns to prostitution to explore her sexual fantasies. The British press created a long and varied list of possible suspects for the London-based Belle de Jour.
