article_snippet.sent: First, Celine would like everyone to abandon whatever assumptions everyone've made about prostitutes.
article_snippet.sent: Celine claims that Celine didn't have an abusive childhood, Celine's not a 'hyper-sexual nympho', and Celine isn't uneducated.
article_snippet.sent: Celine had 'an incredibly fortunate upbringing', Celine said, adding that Celine got along well with Celine parents and older sister: '[It was] just about the best any child could possibly hope for.'
article_snippet.sent: A minimum-wage job wouldn't earn Celine enough money, and Celine didn't want to take out student loans.
article_snippet.sent: Celine best option, Celine said, was the sex industry. '
article_snippet.sent: I couldn’t bring Celine to do porn, and I knew wasn’t talented enough to be a stripper,' Celine explained.
article_snippet.sent: It just didn't occur to Celine that others might not be so at ease with Celine decision.
article_snippet.sent: Celine was still out-going then, Celine said, and never felt self-conscious.
article_snippet.sent: But peoples' reactions quickly changed the way Celine approached conversations about Celine job.
article_snippet.sent: They would lecture Celine, insult Celine, and accuse Celine of being a 'traitor to feminism'.
article_snippet.sent: One friend told everyone in everyone social circle that Celine must be mentally unstable to have chosen such a career, and might have even been molested as a child.
article_snippet.sent: The rumor took off, and Celine lost a lot of friends in the process.
article_snippet.sent: Now, after about a decade in the industry, Celine is much more reticent about revealing what Celine does, for fear of eliciting those same negative reactions.
article_snippet.sent: But while Celine has a 'mainstream' part-time job that Celine uses as a 'cover', Celine finds it frustrating that Celine can't be more open. '
article_snippet.sent: I wish I could feel proud of who I am and what I do,' Celine said. '
article_snippet.sent: Sexy and smart: Celine, who wants to keep Celine real identity a secret, says Celine's more than
article_snippet.sent: Plus, Celine explained, Celine can't erase Celine history in the sex industry. '
article_snippet.sent: In fact, despite liking Celine job, it's not Canada's ambiguous laws on prostitution that give Celine pause - being paid for sex is legal, but living off that payment of sex is not.
article_snippet.sent: Rather, it's the negative reactions to Celine job that make Celine regret ever taking up sex work at all. '
article_snippet.sent: I wish I’d known what I was getting Celine into before I jumped into this line of work,' Celine said. '