carrie_nguyen@CommunityConnect.com
Asian Avenue, huh. For most of you this is a fun meeting place. A place where you share with most asians from all over. For me, this is therapy: I will explain...
My name is Carrie Mai Nguyen. I am half vietnamese, half american. I very seldom see my mother, she re-married to an American and lives in Texas. I have always been close to my dad and my sisters. My story is that of intrigue, greed and extortion. If you are vietnamese you may have read this in a newspaper a year or so ago. 2 years a go there was an influx of vietnamese immigrants in the LA area. A lot were here to make a quick buck and gangs became abundant. Having grown up in the US and 17, I was naive and vulnerable. A reputable "business man" approached me to do a profile to be used for his vietnamese magazine. The magazine, which I will not name for legal reasons, seemed of very high quality and decent circulation. The money offered was very attractive specially for a 17 year old. So, I agreed. There were several test shots and photo shoots and several more to follow. The initial takes were impressive. I was given several copies which I adorned our whole house with. My father was kinda skeptical but since it made me happy went along with it. When the magazine came out I was in 7th heaven... I felt like a star and people were asking for my autographs.
I was later on introduced to other "photographers" who pressured me into posing for more revealing photos. Telling me if I wanna make it big, I have to do some coz all big time models have this shots. I disagreed strongly. Later I was enticed into a fashion shoot which evolved into several shoots that I later regretted. On one of the shoot, there were lots of food, drinks and drugs. I ate some, drank some and as the shoot went on (there were other models as well), everybody started smoking pot. snorting coke and taking extasy. I liked the other girls and when they started doing it, I did it too. Soon I was doing shoots, I never would have done had I been sober. The latter shoot was very explicit, there were some I didn`t and still don`t remember. There were guys all over me on some shots which I really don`t recall. Once again, for legal reasons, I cannot share these photos. But I am sharing some as part of my therapy.
When everything is said and done. I got copies of my photos and I was disgusted and asked that they give me the slides of everything. They did but made some copies. My father is a well-to-do, hard working business man. Our family is not filthy but we are wealthy. Upon knowing this, a gang extorted money from me for several months threatening to show my explicit nude photos to my dad if I didn`t cooperate. The amount got bigger and bigger and soon I found myself unable to comply. They asked for sexual favors instead. When I refused, they delivered the photos to my dad. My dad was so devastated beyond any word can describe. Therapy both helped us. Mine was easier but my ability to cope with these photos and experience made me a reclusive person. For a long time I couldn`t even look at my own photos. Now as a part of my therapy, I am posting these photos here for me to look at and for others to see. It made me feel a lot better already having shown it to some of my closest friend. One of which has a site here and told me about Asian Avenue. She is posting revealing photos also, but she is doing it for fun.
So enjoy, tell your friends and thanks for helping me come out of this. ... with much love, Carrie.
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