Chapter 235
Madeline reluctantly tossed aside the longer skirt, bracing herself to wear a skimpy dress more suited to a red-light district prostitute than an actress.
"This is fine, Madeline. This is what everyone wants to see. They don’t want to see you being modest or proper. They just want something to hate, so you have to give them that to stay revelant," she convinced herself, though tears already welled up.
She was brought up as a proper lady. Her mother taught her to hide her body from the predators in Hollywood since she was a child actress with no backing.
So, wearing something so revealing and acting like a skank was a choice she never wanted to make in her life.
It was desperation that pushed her to this point.
Madeline faced herself in the mirror, her expression changing dramatically as she slipped into the role of the slutty character she would play for the rest of her life.
Madeline smirked as she saw her reflection and said confidently, though her confidence was forced, "Jon is just one of the men I slept with. He has no value to me."
Madeline kept her smirk for a few more seconds before her expression crumbled, and she wept in agony.
"Why do I have to do this?" Madeline told herself. "I’m not a skank. Jon was my first in everything; it’s not my fault I thought he was single..."
In the end, Madeline wiped her tears once more. After many years of hiding, she continued practicing her poses for the upcoming interview.
She didn’t want to do it, but she had no choice because money was tight.
After her father squandered half of her earnings through gambling, she was left with no option but to take drastic measures to support her family.