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From Strip Clubs to the Classrooms: Author Talks About Her Road to Success

HOUSTON - Deanna Wilson is a successful single mother of four children.

She works as an elementary behavior specialist for an area school district. In other words, she helps kids with problems. Deanna is no stranger to problems herself.

“Nobody has messed up more than I have,” she said.

After graduating high school but lacking self-confidence, Deanna, 37, worked as a stripper. Soon she was addicted to drugs.

By 25, she was homeless and pregnant with her second child.

“I tried to kill myself a couple times because I had truly hit rock bottom. Nobody cared about me, I just didn't see a way out, I thought God hated me,” said Wilson.

Planning to have an abortion, Deanna met a crisis counselor in Pasadena that changed her life forever. For the first time she had hopes and dreams.

“God used her to change my path because the path I was on was leading to death,” she said. Deanna did not abort her child.

Now a college graduate and working on her master's degree, Deanna has published her autobiography titled “A Wounded Daughter's Diary: Exploring God's Grace from the Strip Clubs to the Classroom.”

“I love my kids, it's because of them, it was another reason why I wanted to be a better person,” he said.

One in three babies is born to single mothers, according to the U.S. census. Wilson started the non-profit group called Mothers Raising Children Alone.

Always stressing the importance of education and faith, Deanna hopes her story can help save other lost souls.

“My future has just begun. I don't know what lies ahead of me, but I'm excited to see.”

Wilson will hold her first book signing at 2pm on March 13th at the Barnes and Noble at 5656 Fairmont Parkway in Pasadena.
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6 comments

  • georgmicrodong
    15 years ago
    Why is God always credited with getting one out of trouble, but never held responsible for causing the trouble in the first place?

    Oh wait, never mind. Delusion is a wonderful thing.
  • CTQWERTY
    15 years ago
    Yikes! What a life path...
  • deogol
    15 years ago
    Wait till the parents find out!

    In CA some pink slipped teacher went on to her class how she was going to have to become a stripper and sell her eggs. Big uproar about it with these two fat ugly girls (always the ugly ones complaining about strippers) on CNN.
  • Dudester
    15 years ago
    Saw the news feature on this. The only way some guy is going to slip a dollar in this horse faced dancer's G string is because:

    it's pitch black in there
    the guy is drunk off his ass-teetering on alcohol poisoning
    he ain't had pussy in twenty years, and
    he really doesn't give a shit where he puts his pecker.
  • jabthehut
    15 years ago
    Man, that is one butt ugly woman. I beg to differ with Dude though. She is more of a hippo face. I bet the sweat build up in the creases of her flab would get to stinking pretty bad after about two dances on the pole.
  • georgmicrodong
    15 years ago
    I've discovered that what they look like now can often bear little resemblance to what they looked like then. One of my wife's current co-workers was a stripper. I've seen pictures of her then, and there is a world of difference. Definitely the same person, but "hot" then and "cow" now are accurate descriptions.
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