“Kalisha Madden and Cherice Gordon have been missing for nearly three months. Both women are exotic dancers from Detroit. Many wonder if their lifestyle as strippers played a role in their disappearance. Often times, the lure of money puts these women in harm's way. FOX 2's Alexis Wiley takes a closer look at why it's so easy for some of these women to get trapped.”Wiley interviews a few women who are dancers, but who had their glamorous expectations dashed by the true stripping world.
The message we see coming through is that regardless of the great money they are making, it really might not be worth it because it’s too easy to get distracted by the vices that go along with fast money.
I hear my own story in their words: "My first job was at Chuck E. Cheese, so I was like that looks a lot better than Chuck E," said Laura.
I thought the same about working at Dunkin’ Donuts and J.C. Penney.
The women discuss the dangers involved even if you’re playing by the rules, but even knowing this, they are not ready to leave the strip world.
"Once you're in, you're kind of stuck in because you start accumulating all these things that you didn't have before," said Laura. "You're kind of forced to keep going to work and paying these bills for this stuff that you didn't really need in the first place and it's just a trap."The reporter also interviewed Anny Donewald, an ex-dancer.
"I did amateur night and I won $200, and when you're a 19-year-old college student, $200, that's a lot of ramen noodles."But after six years, she knew she had to leave the world because she was feeling “dead.”
She went on to create Eve's Angels, which consists of women who go to clubs to offer support without judgment to strippers when they are ready to quit.
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