NSFW: ‘Tis Pity She’s A Success – Belle de Jour and the Impossibility of Anonymous Blogging
TechCrunch Nov 15 09So Belle De Jour was real after all. The Internet's most famous anonymous sex blogger - turned best-selling author - turned internationally succesful TV series - has finally outed herself in the UK's Sunday Times. And it turns out she's a character straight from the pages of XKCD. From her interview with the Times' India Knight, we learn that Belle is in fact Dr Brooke Magnanti a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology who ran out of money during the final stages of her PhD thesis and decided to become an escort to make ends meet. So to speak. Add in the fact that Magnanti was already a reasonably well known science blogger and 'The Secret Diary of a London Call Girl' was born. Full story...
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