Diary of a Prostitute Blogger

The Post takes a look at the so–called blog of a prostitute, belledejour-uk.blogspot.com. The blogger, who calls herself Belle de Jour, an homage to the Luis Bunuel film with Catherine Deneuve as a mild housewife turned daytime prostitute, think that of celebrities, Elizabeth Hurley could be a good prostitute while Julia Roberts and Elisabeth Shue should not have played them ("Julia 'Sexless' Roberts"), while other bloggers suspect she's a fraud. The Post also notes that Belle, a 20 something Londoner with a boyfriend, might not be blogging for too long: "It would be a little depressing to be known the rest of your life as the documentarian whore." For her, sure, but come on, aren't we all whoring something?

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on January 11, 2004 4:27 PM

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mreditor

Read this prostitute memoir from 1938 - I run a website that offers tons of historic magazine articles and this

morning I posted this and it fits this topic perfectly.

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/article.php?Article_Summary=2363

Matt Jacobsen

www.OldMagazineArticles.com

pattycake

Hey, did you notice that Ben Hammersley in fact did NOT call the whore blogger a fake? When asked if he thought she was a fake, he actually said, "No, she's too good." The Post got things completely backwards. Just check his blog, complete with apology from reporter.

optimus crime

Ooh. And also, what real blogger is able to resist self-referential linkages to major news outlet stories about *yourself*?

(Except perhaps Gawker in re: juror leak investigation)

It was not mentioned nor linked because it would interrupt the lovely narrative.

Just a pet theory.

optimus crime

She may or may not be whoring herself in real life, but I suspect she's whoring for a book deal. It reads like promising nouveau-chiklit.