"How can someone have a problem with me when they will pay to see a film where an actress shows a nipple?"

"I`ve been called anti-feminist before and it makes me really mad. I don`t do my job for men, I do it because I love the make-up, the costumes and the history of showgirls.

"Some days there`s nothing for it but to go back to bed, but mostly I try to put a face on and turn the day around. I try to remember we all have those moments — even people you admire."

I always get billed as `Dita, internationally known fetish supermodel I`m really a small town girl from Michigan who has a good laugh that being a fancy-pants stripper got me here! Some people say what I do isn`t very liberating. I say it`s pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work."

Neither of us is ready. I don`t feel that we need to have children to validate our marriage and I don`t need children to claim I`m a fulfilled woman.

When things get you down, make the best of your own life rather than worrying about what everyone else thinks.

The truth is that I am very ordinary blonde girl from Michigan.

I never ever wanted to be a little girl, ever. When a lot of friends were into the whole schoolgirl fantasy, I was always like, I wouldn’t be caught dead. I’m 35 years old. I’m not 19 years old anymore, playing around with different looks. I know who I am and I’ve known for a long time.

I don’t think I’m better than the pole dancers.

’ve had a lot of arguments with myself over this, but I think that if I were Nicole Kidman, and I were in a movie, and they were negotiating over my body parts—what my tits are worth, what my ass is worth, how much extra money that’s going to get me—how is that any different?

Okay, so now I’m this famous fetish model, I’m going to be the best fetish model I can be. And when I was working in the strip clubs I thought, I’m going to be the best headlining stripper that I can be.

I sometimes think, Wouldn’t it be great if I could go back to those moments when I could walk out on the strip-club stage and just let it all go.

If it were just about looks, I probably wouldn’t be the most famous burlesque star in the world, because I’m sure that I’m not the most beautiful one.

My show is the real me.

When sexuality, style, humor and playfulness all come together, along with a bit of innocence, well, that’s when a burlesque show becomes great.

“One guy paid me $5,000 to make a film where another girl hits me in the face with a cream pie. If you have never taken a cream pie in the face, it is the best thing ever. It’s pee your pants funny, the most fun you can have sober!

I`ve lost my luggage before and not had my makeup, and he`s lost his luggage and not had his makeup - so it`s great that we`re always covered.

I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

I don`t feel that we need to have children to validate our marriage and I don`t need children to claim I`m a fulfilled woman.

Some people say what I do isn`t very liberating. I say it`s pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work.

I`m really a small town girl from Michigan who has a good laugh that being a fancy-pants stripper got me here!

I always get billed as `Dita, internationally known fetish supermodel

It`s not about seducing men, it"s about embracing womanhood

"I love it when you can go about your daily business with the knowledge that you have a little secret of your own on underneath"