Stripping Like Nobody's Business
A true story of a mother with no conscience and a stripper with too much
by Bambi Rehak
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Pub Date Sep 02 2022 | Archive Date Nov 25 2022
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Description
Bambi was guilty of keeping a secret that kept her father from killing her mother. She learned to be resourceful growing up without running water, electricity, television, phones, and a proper education. Bambi’s mother was different. She taught Bambi how to be a victim and martyr. After becoming fearful of making people angry she became a people-pleaser, although this is not the reason she stripped. Usually, everything went wrong, but if something went right, she thanked God, sometimes in her prayers, probably not in this book.
Act one starts in the 1960’s with an honest coming of age story including Jell-O, rape and murder. Childhood adventures resemble Huck Finn’s if Mark Twain had been dirtier. The guilt starts here even before she strips.
Act two is in three parts. Nothing is made up, except the dancers. A Methodist volunteer picks out her first strip outfit even though Bambi can’t walk without crutches. Dressing room drama spares no dirty details from table to towel dances. Then parts two and three are pure entertainment anecdotes straight from strip clubs.
Act three rollicks through four failed marriages after she fails to find conditional love in strip clubs. She finds happiness during the Velvet Revolution in Prague, Las Vegas and Alaska. The final finish is when the towers crashed in 2001.
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Dave B, Reviewer
Stripping Like Nobody's Business is basically Bambi Rehak's autobiography from birth until the Twin Towers attack in 2001, mostly her years as a stripper in low rent and even lower rent clubs in America. Bambi,and yes that is her real name, had a 1960's childhood straight out of Hillbilly Elegy , living in a home without electricity and running water let alone "luxuries" like a phone or TV.
With her Mother "entertaining" a constant stream of men friends and the home in constant chaos part 1 of the book is about Bambi's early years where she has to grow up very quickly. Despite her best efforts to take on the matriarchal role she feels guilty for everything that goes wrong, something enthusiastically confirmed by her wayward parent.
Part 2 tells how out of desperation Bambi turns to stripping to survive and there's an eye-opening insight into the weird and not so wonderful world of strip clubs where the very worst of human nature is on display both sides of the changing room walls.
Part 3 is about Bambi discovering her love of travel,and it seems Wedding Cake, as she clocks up no less than 4 disastrous marriages.
This book is quite a ride, despite being very much a stream of consciousness memoir and often quite random it's very entertaining and ultimately uplifting when Bambi realises that life is not all about pleasing other people as she'd been brought up to believe and she finds success in a more conventional field.
Bambi is a straight talker and there's quite often "too much information" about the workings of the female body. She's lived quite a life in places and situations where others can and do crash and burn, Bambi Rehak is a survivor .
A great book but definitely not for the prudish.
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