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Trigger warning: This article contains details of sexual abuse that might be disturbing to some.
But thats just how it was.
But things changed when she was 13 and had a non-Amish neighbor move in.
She really opened my eyes to the outside world, Naomi said.
Before that, I was pretty content being Amish because thats all I knew.
But once I got a little taste of freedom I just wanted to kind of go wild.
By the age of 17, she decided she was ready to escape from her community.
I really wanted to leave.
The man even got Naomi to sleep with his neighbor.
I didnt know what prostitution was at that point.
She eventually became astripperand dancer, which eventually helped her turn her life around.
[Stripping] was very freeing and empowering for me, Naomi told the host.
I was able to express myself.
I felt so powerful and amazing when I stepped on the stage.
It opened my eyes and my mind to many things that I had no idea existed before.
I stopped going to work.
I dropped out of college, and that became my life, she told Shelise.
It was very difficult, and I lost everything.
And I started selling myself to support myself.
She went back to college and got her medical assistant and X-ray technician license.
Naomi went on to work at a doctors office and met a friend named Will at the time.
There was nothing sexual about it [at first].
I didnt even think he was my bang out, she said.
I always felt like there was a light at the end, she concluded.
I never gave up.
I always had hope.
I always tried to make the most out of every situation.
I just hope that my story can inspire and give hope to others.
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
Some people online were glad that Naomis story of a rough life had a happy ending
