never accepted the fact that her parents had adopted her and taken him from the position of only child, and therefore sole heir. Additionally, the decision that led her to leave home included not wanting not depend on anyone, and to earn her own money. She did not want to wait to graduate from university to start work, as her parents wanted. After leaving home, she lived on the streets. Not wanting to continue like this, and unable to find work, she saw the announcement of a brothel in the newspaper classifieds, and became a prostitute there. Over time, to endure the pain and humiliation of living this life, she became a cocaine user. Her brother discovered her new life and told the family. As a result, the family stopped talking to her, which still makes her very sad. As she states in her blog and book, in the beginning she worked in a poor quality brothel, often serving four clients a day. After a few years she had saved some money, and underwent psychotherapeutic treatment to quit drugs and eventually managed to get out of the brothel. Renting her own apartment, she began serving clients in upscale neighbourhoods of Sao Paulo. After three years of this activity, she claimed to have serviced 5,000 men. She revealed that her greatest sadness was that her father had died without talking to her again, and that she resented her mother for not wanting to see her anymore, but that she is very happy with her current life. She was married from 2005 to 2015 to a former client. She revealed that she intends to have children up to the age of forty, but that professional projects always make her postpone motherhood. In 2011, she converted to Umbanda, revealing that through this religion she found a path of healing and spiritual evolution. Surfistinha had a premonitory dream about the death of her father, so a friend took her to a yard, and there an entity confirmed that he had died, which made her desperate. She called her mother, who confirmed the death. This left her shaken and she even attempted suicide, but she has now overcome the loss with the help of spirituality. Internet celebrity Pacheco began her literary efforts through a blog, under the name Bruna Surfistinha, where she commented on her routine as a call girl. This blog became popular among