Hannah Hirsh, who worked as a stripper for five years before leaving the industry during the pandemic in 2020 after an encounter with what she describes as Jesus, now works to help other women escape similar fates. She highlights the dark realities of her former life, including addiction and trafficking, while emphasizing that stripping is not glamorous or empowering despite societal portrayals. Hirsh founded "Kept by Grace Ministry" to visit strip clubs and share her message of faith with sex workers.
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Hannah Hirsh, a former stripper for five years, left the sex industry after experiencing what she describes as an encounter with Jesus. Now at peace, Hirsh founded the "Kept by Grace Ministry" shortly after reconnecting with her faith and regularly visits strip clubs to help women exit the sex industry. She warns that while stripping may initially seem like a way to make quick money, it often leads to addiction, drug use, alcoholism, and even human trafficking. Hirsh emphasizes that those who believe strippers are beyond salvation lack a genuine relationship with God, according to her interpretation of Christian teachings.
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Hannah Hirsh, a former stripper of five years who left the sex industry after an encounter with Jesus, is at peace now, even as she discusses the "dark" life she escaped to help save other women from a similar fate.
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"A lot of the things that I saw while I was in that life for five years was very dark.
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You see a lot of addiction.
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I even got involved into addiction myself.
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You see drugs.
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You see alcohol… you even see trafficking," Hirsh told Fox News Digital.
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"[To the] women just wanting to go to the club and thinking, ‘I can just go and make some quick money,’ you don't realize the door that you're opening, and you don't realize all of the darkness that comes with it…
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This all comes with that lifestyle and just feeling empty inside, feeling dead inside and just going against your morals just for money," she continued.
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"I fell into the temptation [of stripping] because of the allure of money…
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[That’s what] stripping glamorizes [and] society glamorizes this lifestyle and portrays it to be something it's not," Hirsh added.
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"If you've actually lived inside of it, you know that while you are doing this, you are not happy," she relayed.
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Hirsh’s career in the sex industry came to a halt when the clubs in her area shut down during the pandemic of 2020.
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The abrupt halt prompted her to sit in silence with God, a reality she describes as pulling her heart out of that line of work and closer to Him.
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"Society makes it seem like this luxurious lifestyle is the goal, but what I have truly learned is the goal is Jesus.
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And true riches are found in God," Hirsh continued.
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"This fast-paced lifestyle [is] glamorized by society, but it is not glamorous at all.
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This is coming from someone who lived it," she added.
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Hirsh went on to share that "most of the women" in the stripping are "on drugs" and "drinking every single day to numb" themselves to their work.
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"You're constantly being degraded on a daily basis.
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So, it's not empowering you at all — it's actually belittling you and making you feel less than.
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But because you are walking away with money, you think that it's empowering you, but just as fast as that money comes is just as fast it goes
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," she revealed.
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"What goes through my mind when I go into the strip club is that these women need God…
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I go in there and I tell them what they need to hear, what God is placing in my spirit to tell them because my job is to just plant the seed, but God is the one that's going to make the seed grow," she continued.
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Hirsh founded "Kept by Grace Ministry" shortly after reconnecting with her faith, and visits strip clubs regularly to pull women out of the sex industry.
"For the Christians that believe strippers are beyond saving, I would say that they don't have a true relationship with the Lord…
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Jesus sat and ate with prostitutes.
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Jesus was going to those that the Pharisees were calling too dirty…
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So for the Christians that believe that strippers are too far gone, I would say that you need to understand the heart of God because no stripper, nobody is too far gone for God.
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No matter what they have done, God can redeem anybody," Hirsh said.
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