Stripped Down Quotes

“When a man puts you through something like that, you never stop loving them, you just love them differently. Your heart is more guarded. Less trusting. Cracked.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“I know now what I didn’t know then: Love isn’t supposed to hurt. Not physically”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“Remember”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“there will ever be a time like that in the clubs again. You fucking bet there were plenty of seedy parts of the business”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“Go after what you want. Don’t take no for an answer. Give ’em hell”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“For every woman who’s ever been called too wild, too loud, too broken. There was a time I thought my story was a warning. Turns out, it was a blueprint. I didn’t clean up for the world. I rose up for myself.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“TO ALL THE LESSONS THIS LIFE HAS GIVEN ME, THANK you. Each one is woven into my patchwork soul. To the little Vegas girl I used to be, I finally let you go, sweet child. You don’t have to fight anymore. You can rest. You made it through the chaos so I could stand here today—sober, free—and become the woman you needed.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“In 2022, I was making so much money from the podcast that I was finally able to retire 100 percent from all sex work entirely and shut down my OnlyFans. This was one of the hardest decisions I ever had to make, and I leaned on God. I know that sounds odd. But I had to have faith that the Big Guy wouldn’t let me fall on my face. He’d had my back many times before. I had to trust He’d keep me off my back and on my two feet, doing this new career that I truly loved. And God had me. The minute I got rid of my OnlyFans, my business more than tripled. God made sure to let me know that I made the right decision by no longer selling my body.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“There were so many times that I felt so defeated and like nobody was listening, but it was the only thing that I had that wasn’t sex work. I wanted to quit, but it became my baby and my motivation to shed the skin of the old me.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“I STARTED MY PODCAST AT my dining-room table. I connected with a platform named Podfly that was an absolute godsend. I had no idea how to set up microphones. I had no idea how to record, but I knew that I was gonna figure it out, and they taught me how to get everything just right so that I could launch my podcast.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“Everybody knows I’m obsessed with Dolly Parton, and her first big radio hit was called “Dumb Blonde.” I’d been trying to launch my podcast with a friend of mine who happened to be blonde, so we were going to be the Dumb Blondes. Sadly, my girlfriend couldn’t see the vision and she bowed out, leaving me to forge ahead without her. There was only one left, and that is how the Dumb Blonde podcast came about. And it was time for me to speak my truth. * * *”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“Bunnie, you have the looks. You have the body. Go for it. Build that brand any way you need to, because in the end, it’s all for a brighter, bigger future,” he said. “You need to start doing sexy photo shoots, you need to start talking to the internet like you do to me, and people will fall in love with your personality.” He told me to start a YouTube channel—and that if I was so worried about the people who were trying to shame me, I should get honest. I should tell my story in my own words. And with my best friend’s blessing, I was off and running. I started doing photo shoots. I started vlogging on YouTube, and I started building every social media platform that I could. I even started my own blog called Confessions of a White Trash Wife—which shockingly took off immediately.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“I went cold turkey. I was done with pills and cocaine, but it would be a while before I let go of the alcohol. Either way, nothing could have prepared me for sobriety. Not even Jesus Himself. * * * THEY SAY IN ORDER TO see the light, you have to go through the darkness. A month into not taking pills, my brain was flooded with all the feelings I had numbed out my entire life. Being numb to the world, you could walk through World War III and not even flinch. Being sober—not so much. You jump at every sound, and the overstimulation of the world weighs heavy on you. I was scared of everything.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“Eventually, I’d hit that point with all my vices: the dosage would go up, but the high wouldn’t come. It would be all crashes.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“It would take over a decade for those wounds to start to heal and for my body to just feel normal. As I’ve said, severe abuse rewires your brain and your nervous system: That kind of violence stays in your bones long after the bruises have healed.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“I’m telling this story so women in my situation can say, Damn, she went through all that—Karma and everything before. She had nothing to show for her life or herself but heartache, loss, and scars. She was locked in addiction. She was a terrible human. She used people. She let herself be used. And she changed. She rose like a phoenix from the ashes and I can too.”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“I’m no role model. But I am an honest to God”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

“To this day”
― Bunnie Xo, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic