I grew up on the East side, where all the Mexican families lived. My two older sisters were both strippers and my brother's girlfriend was a stripper. To me they were glamorous and I wanted to grow up to be a stripper. I started dancing when I was about 13, and walking around the house topless. My mother would tell me to cover up, but never followed up. My sisters would show me how to hold my shoulders so my tits would look bigger and they gave me creams that were supposed to make my bust larger. To my benefit I had descent size tits for being 13.

One evening, it was late my brother came home and he had two friends with him, and he told me to strip for them. I danced to this hip hop piece and performed my first dance to an audience. They called me over and I table danced for them and one of the guys put his hand inside my thigh and moved his hand up until he cupped me. That was it, I was hooked. He fucked me two days later.

I was too young to dance in a club, but I had my own show at home or at parties. Sometimes I would dance with my sisters, sometimes alone. During that time I was that guy's girlfriend and he arranged for my shows and collected good money. I was making over a thousand a week dancing.

One afternoon when I was 17 a man who my mother knew offered me a job at his office as a filing clerk. My mother made me go, not that I would not keep dancing, but she wanted me to work that job. He fucked me the first day I was there, and he kept fucking me until I broke up with my boyfriend. He was also fucking my mother at the time. He took me off the pill and got me pregnant so I would be dependent on him and made me stop dancing. He also got my mother pregnant, even though she was already 39.

I don't dance any more because I have three kids, and I just don't have the look anymore. I also take care of my mother's kid. My sister's still dance, but they are dancing at lower end clubs because they don't have what it takes to dance at the Gentlemen's Club anymore. My brother got his girl pregnant, but never got married. In the meantime I live with this man who is older than my father and have kids for him. For me things worked out because he can support me and wants me around. My sisters can't keep a steady boyfriend and the men they hang out with are drunks and unemployed.

Just another family on the East side.