Identical twins Louise and Martine
Fokkens shot to fame earlier this year as stars of a documentary charting their
50 year careers as prostitutes in Amsterdam.
Now the 70-year-old Dutch sisters
are celebrating their retirement with a tell-all book about their lives and the
industry, and today they admitted to This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and
Phillip Schofield that they have entertained 355,000 men between them.
Louise revealed that her bad
arthritis meant that she had retired from prostitution two years ago causing
the telly hosts to exclaim: 'No wonder you have arthritis. You must have very
flexible hips!'
Louise, who became a prostitute
aged twenty after a brief spell making lampshades explained how she got in to
the business:
'We didn't have enough money.
'My husband's friends said it was
the best way to make money so we decided to find out. I was 20/21 the first
time.
'At first it was a problem for our
mother and father but later we all lived normally with it.'
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Martine, a mother-of-three who
still works as a prostitute two to three times a week said:
'My family told me about my sister
while I was in the hospital having my first baby.
'I didn't believe it but we talked
about it and I loved her, that's life.'
Martine then started working at
the brothel as a cleaner but two years later decided to join her sister as a
prostitute after so many clients mistook her for her identical twin.
'I
helped her with her first client: told her what she had to do and what she
shouldn't do.'
Louise, who has four children and
nine grandchildren said: 'I helped her with the first client: told her what
she had to do, what she shouldn't do.'
Unsurprisingly the women are
familiar faces around the red light district, and over their five decades
working in the sex industry freed themselves from the control of their pimps,
ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for
prostitutes.
The women continue to be shocked
at how different the industry is now to how it was in the 1960s when they first
started out.
Louise said: 'It is very different
now. We used to sit in the windows with clothes on, today they are totally
naked.
'We have written about our life
for over 50 years in the industry. It is our side of the story.'
Culled from MailOnline UK
Culled from MailOnline UK
Na wa oooo,what..old prostitutes
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