Annie Lobert a former call girl and sex industry worker. Lobert worked 16 years as a prostitute and escort in Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Hawaii. She left the sex industry with the support of Al Nakata, one of her regular customers, who had fallen in love with her. Nowadays she is the founder of Hookers for Jesus, a ministry that helps people leave the sex industry. On June 5, 2009, Annie married Oz Fox, guitarist of the legendary heavy metal band Stryper. If you’re not familiar with her story, you can read below an very impressive testimony.
Feeling unloved by her father and used by a boyfriend, teenager Annie Lobert yearned inside for the power to exact revenge over men. Money to have nice things. To be someone important. It over rode any caution in her life and within a short time she was selling her body, gaining the money she thought was her answer to a better life.
It was a lie. The money instead went to her violent pimp and for many years her world descended into a hell filled with prostitution, cancer, drug addiction and no future. Yet when she cried out to God in her darkest and most dangerous moment, hope arrived to give her a second chance.
Little girl lost, thought no one loved her, thought no one wanted her, ran away from her castle. She was embraced by the devil and his false love and through that embracing became a different person. Became the harlot, became the queen of lies, the Jezebel.
That’s my life.
Growing up I just remember my dad just raging. I’d come home and my dad would be really angry, stressed out and I really took it personal. I think that – I thought to myself that I must be unlovable.
High school noticed that the boys were paying attention to me and since I was not getting any attention from my dad I gravitated toward any compliment, any pass that was made at me.
I met this boy in school that stole my heart. He told me that if I slept with him that we’d get married. We’d make a life together. We’d have babies. And I completely took my entire heart and gave it to this boy. And when I found out that he was sleeping with several of my best girlfriends, it was such a shock to me. Left high school, heartbroken. Moved out of my parent’s home the day after I graduated. I remember waving at my mom, when I was 18 — and my dad. And in the back of the car, knowing I would never come back. Cause I was done.
I got out to the beautiful city of Minneapolis. Tried to find a way to go to college, but I had to work 3 jobs to have my own place and buy a car. And I –I found like a new thing inside of me, that if I had nice clothes, if I want out to the clubs, I could meet different men that liked me and maybe I could meet a rich guy that would sweep me off my feet and would take care of me like a — prince would.
So my girlfriend and I, started going out to the night clubs and we had a fake ID and one night we walked in, these men walked up to us at the bar and bought us drinks. Rolex watches, designer clothes and I looked at my girlfriend, “these guys have money.” My girlfriend starts to like one of the men and I told my girlfriend, “get that guys money.” And I think that what this really was building inside me was this vendetta. This deep seated, rooted unforgiveness towards my dad, towards that boy in school. I just wanted revenge. I was going to prove that I was going to make it in my life and money was going to be the answer.
My girlfriend takes off with this guy, goes to Hawaii. I am working my 3 jobs and she calls me up and says, “Listen. I am on the beach. I am in a drop top corvette, and I am on my cell phone. And you need to come out here.” And even though I did not have the guts to ask her, you know, “What – what are you doing?” I just kinda went with it, it was like an automatic walking into a dark doorway, that I knew something wasn’t right, but the lure of the possibility, of having nice things and finally having money that I never did growing up. Finally being someone important, overrode all those feelings of any caution, it blew it to the wind and I went to Hawaii that very week. Took a vacation from my jobs. And the first night that I was on Waikiki beach, I actually sold myself with my girlfriend to some Japanese clients and I became a -prostitute.
It’s kinda like I had this ring that I put on and I couldn’t take it off. No longer could $3.47 an hour cut it. Once I found out that I could make hundreds if not thousands of dollars, selling myself. $ 500 per hour with no attachment, no relationship, $ 1000 per hour, now it was $ 2000 per hour, it gave me this immense power and if you wanted me for the night it was $10,000.
A few months later, I started dancing and one day I was on the stage and this man walks in, puts this couple hundred-dollar fan of money at my feet. And I danced just for him and I let him know that I was actually prostituting my body, I was actually selling myself to make extra ends meet. He looked at me and said, “You are so intelligent. I really like you, in fact I think I am falling in love with you.” He gave me everything that I needed to hear from my dad.
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