Huffington Postのインスタグラム(huffpost) - 6月6日 09時26分

HuffPost guest writer TJ Butler, who spent her teens in foster care to escape domestic violence, opened up about how much it meant to her to post for a nude centerfold in her 20s.

“Amateur modeling was my primary source of income. I was scraping by, but it was better than the drudgery of minimum wage jobs I was qualified for. The centerfold was an impossible dream come to life for a girl from the wrong side of the tracks … [it] was glamorous and important, two things I believed would somehow transform me,” she wrote.

But everything changed when her co-workers found out about her past.

“My ears pricked up at the comment, ‘I’d never do that to myself.’ I wanted to know the gossip and edged toward the group. I heard the words, ‘You can tell she’s a slut,’ when I was close enough to see what they were looking at. My centerfold lay open on the white tablecloth, silverware pushed to the side … I turned around to walk away. Laughter erupted at my back.”

“The centerfold hadn’t transformed me. I wasn’t on top. Instead, it was a grand gesture of debasement, something to be ridiculed while I was trying to blend in.”

TJ Butler is the author of the short story collection “Dating Silky Maxwell.” Preorder the collection and connect with her at our link in bio.

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