‘Transparent’ star Alexandra Billings recalls wild days as a sex worker
Transparent,” she made ends meet as a sex worker.The Illinois native writes about her experiences, which were “on and off for almost four years” in the 1980s, in her memoir “This Time For Me” (Topple Books), out April 1. Before it became “an insidious nightmare,” she writes. “it was actually kind of funny.”The trans actress, 59, writes of one regular who would dress up as a clown and speak in a very high-pitched voice.“If you can imagine a beloved cartoon rodent on pounds of helium begging you to f–k him in the ass, that gives you an idea of my challenges,” Billings writes.